Law & Public Safety
Deja vu all over again?
I hope I’m wrong, but the anti-ICE riots in LA and other cities are distrubingly similar to the anti-police riots that did so much harm in 2020. With that in…
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932
Liberty
SCOTUS should not enable rogue federal judge
Editors at National Review Online chastise the nation’s highest court for a recent split decision. The Supreme Court’s main job is to settle questions of law that arise in “cases…
Liberty
Harris, Walz Threaten Free Speech
Jonathan Turley writes for USA Today about the danger leading Democrats pose to Americans’ First Amendment protections. In the vice presidential debate Tuesday, Monnesota Gov. Tim Walz pulled the fire…
Law & Public Safety
The Constitution and Its Enemies
(In honor or Constitution Day, I’m reposting this Opinion Piece that originally appeared in the Carolina Journal in 2019.) The title of this piece pays homage to Karl Popper’s great…
Liberty
Happy Constitution Day
To mark the day, I’m reposting the following, which orginally appeared in The Carolina Journal on September 17, 2020: The Left’s Long War on the Constitution The United States was…
Liberty
Cancel Culture Is Alive and Well in North Carolina, Continued
In a previous blogpost I reported on cancellations at two North Carolina educational institutions. Today I’m sorry to have to report on another. The victim in this case is Stephen Porter,…
Liberty
Being Frank About a Liberal Justice’s History
Adam White writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the interesting history of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. [C]onsider … the early 20th-century progressives’ arguments against the Supreme…
Research Brief
Health Care
Challenging North Carolina’s Pernicious and Unconstitutional Certificate of Need Law
North Carolina’s Certificate of Need law harms patients, insurers, and taxpayers by making health care more expensive and less accessible. New Bern eye surgeon Jay Singleton has filed a lawsuit…
Law & Public Safety
The Constitution and Its Enemies
The Constitution and Its Enemies This week, JLF’s Jon Guze published an opinion piece in Carolina Journal for Constitution Day 2019. Guze’s piece focused on the principles inherent in the…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
The Constitution and Its Enemies
The title of this piece pays homage to Karl Popper’s great work of political philosophy, The Open Society and Its Enemies. Popper wrote the book during the Second World War in…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
N.C. Lawmakers Need to Protect Citizens From Eminent Domain Abuse
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…
Law & Public Safety
Thought for the Day: We Need More Veterans on the Supreme Court
In a post at the UNC School of Government’s Criminal Law blog, Jeff Welty joins the country in thanking and honoring veterans. He also refers readers to an article by…