Sometimes the guilty go free, and sometimes the blameless are held criminally accountable. This is the real-world result of North Carolina’s outdated and duplicative web of statutes, regulations, and ordinances…
Executive Summary North Carolina has thousands of crimes scattered across untold pages of statutes, regulations, and ordinances. Many of these crimes are duplicative, unconstitutional, or outright silly. This labyrinth of…
This week, JLF’s Jon Sanders published a research brief on North Carolina’s regulatory climate. Sanders examines the annual page count of the North Carolina Register for 2019 (pictured above). According…
Since regulation is fraught with red tape and overregulation, both of which are harmful to job creation and the state's overall economic health, we favor a menu of reforms and…
Republicans made many changes when they came into the majority of the General Assembly, but one of their most important is one of the least known. That is their dedication…
If there's anything the last decade has proven about regulatory reform, it's that it is a marathon, and not a sprint. That said, there are still several big areas of…
Here’s Walter Olson’s description of Elizabeth Warren’s latest proposal: Presidential candidate and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) wants to see more business people behind bars, and she’s not fussy about how…
Some people have a gift of shining the light for others even — or especially — when they're not intending to. My research brief this week highlights two such instances,…
Jibran Khan writes at National Review Online about the problems created when crimes have no requirement of a perpetrator’s “guilty mind.” New York’s governor, at a recent event, casually admitted…
Read this and try to figure out what violation of federal law New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed that carries a steep fine of $100,000.
From John Locke Foundation’s director of legal studies, Jon Guze – I’m not familiar with his work at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and I haven’t…
When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, I was thrilled. I had read and admired his opinions for years, and, when people asked me what I…