In a recent Legal Update, I discussed a notorious case, Kelo v. City of New London, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of eminent domain to take working…
Damon Root writes for Reason that former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens remains unrepentant about one of his worst opinions. In 2005, Stevens, then an associate justice of…
Kevin Williamson writes for National Review Online about the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest consideration of capital punishment. The headlines say the justices of the Supreme Court are “openly feuding” and…
The title comes from a memoir by Frederick Douglass, a self-taught escaped slave who was born two hundred years ago this month. During his life, Douglass was celebrated as one of…
In North Carolina, occupational regulation tends to be an all-or-nothing thing. Either the state applies the most extreme form of regulation (licensing), or it mostly leaves the occupation alone. This…
Janice Rogers Brown—one of my favorite federal judges—will retire next month from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Damon Root has called her, “The most libertarian federal…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with Reason magazine’s Damon Root about his book Overruled. It details the conflict on the political right between those who…
North Carolina counties awarded $284 million in targeted incentives from 2009 to 2014. Sarah Curry analyzes this number and other details from her first-of-its-kind compilation of county government incentives during…
View in your browser. Last week I provided links to a succession of blog posts in which Kurt Lash and Damon Root debated the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s Privileges…
View in your browser. Over the course of the last two weeks, conservative legal scholar Kurt Lash and libertarian legal scholar Damon Root have treated readers to a lively online…
Mad at the U.S. Supreme Court? Unsure why justices have issued recent rulings? George Leef suggests in his latest Forbes column that a recent book can help you understand the…
View in your browser. Freedom of Speech Under Attack, continued… I noted in last week’s newsletter that the American left has abandoned its traditional support for free expression and now…