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In 1963, nearly a decade after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared racial segregation of school children to be unconstitutional, the newly elected governor of Alabama, George Wallace, gave a speech in favor of state sponsored discrimination. To this day, that speech is a symbol of the close minded, fearful,  ...

I’ll be testifying tomorrow at a briefing for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about how barriers to economic liberty limit opportunity and perpetuate the underclass in America. As I’ve argued in several articles and in The Right to Earn A Living, government restrictions on economic freedom have terrible consequences for racial minor ...

Last week, I testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about government barriers to entrepreneurship and the consequences for civil rights. I told the Commission that economic freedom is the great neglected civil right in this country, and that arbitrary restrictions on entrepreneurship, particularly occupational licensing laws and Certi ...

Liberty Blog has several great posts, including here, here, and here, discussing the significant equal protection issues in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project. The Pacific Legal Foundation’s excellent amicus brief by my Sacramento colleagues can be found here. The short answer is that the ci ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights, and Federal Courts is holding a hearing Tuesday called “Opportunity Denied: How Overregulation Harms Minorities.” I’ll be testifying about how occupational licensing laws and Competitor’s Veto laws exclude would-be entrepreneurs ...