In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order denying birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors. In a research brief published soon afterwards, I made a…
Adam White writes about a potential shift in the American judiciary. Does legislative history have a future in judicial opinions? For the first time in a long time, it seems…
The right to a fair trial before an impartial tribunal is one of the oldest and most fundamental principles of natural justice. That’s why, in addition to carrying a pair…
Editors at the Washington Examiner explain why a recent gun-related ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court had little connection to the Second Amendment. To the ignorant and opportunistic, Friday’s Supreme…
Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner looks into the U.S. Supreme Court’s possible decision to jettison a controversial precedent. The Supreme Court appears poised to scrap or revise a longstanding…
Adam White explains how a U.S. Supreme Court decision this summer could limit the federal government’s overreach. By mid-summer, Chevron deference as we know it may be history. The Supreme Court could…
North Carolina’s administrative code is cluttered with over 1,000 rules whose authorizing statutes have been repealed. Though technically repealed, they were kept on the books owing to quirks in the…
Cooper will continue to occupy the Governor’s mansion, and he’s made it very clear he intends to go on issuing lockdown orders without COS concurrence. Which raises a question for…
A unanimous three-judge N.C. Appeals Court panel has ruled that a trial judge could not order forfeiture of $100,000 bond for an illegal immigrant deported by the federal government. Defendant…
Today is the last day to comment on a proposed rule from the Division of Employment Security that is based loosely on state and federal laws, an expired Executive Order…
In a 5-2 ruling, the N.C. Supreme Court has determined that a man who illegally brought five guns onto a school campus could not be convicted of five separate gun…
In a 2017 white paper on the need to rewrite North Carolina’s criminal code, Jessica Smith, the W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government at the…