Yesterday, the headlines shouted that individual mandate of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (let’s just call it “the Act” for short) was found unconstitutional by a federal court in Virginia. (see my short post on it here) Partisan critics of the ruling were quick to point out that there have already been two cases […]
Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting before the Supremes
December 9, 2010 by
Remember this one? This case deals with series of laws passed in Arizona in response to the failure of the federal government to enforce federal immigration laws. As summarized by the ACLU in September: As part of a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration laws, Congress adopted a series of carefully calibrated measures, beginning in the […]
Is John Tyner a modern day Rosa Parks?
November 17, 2010 by
Less than ten years after 9/11 made us all afraid to fly, security precautions during pre-flight passenger screenings have pushed Americans to near outrage. The anger stems from proceedures performed by TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, which procedures include x-ray scanners that show naked images of passengers to screeners for the purpose of discovering any weapons or explosive […]
Amazon wins one for the 1st Amendment
October 26, 2010 by
For those out there who trust government too much, I present to you a case of government bureaucracy gone too far, as well as the lawsuit that said “no.” A few months back, I took note of a case wherein North Carolina was trying to force Amazon to give up records in order to collect […]
Volokh’s caption contest: may the force be with you
October 4, 2010 by
And now for something completely different, and good for a chuckle, too. The Volokh Conspiracy is running a caption contest for this photo: The caption winner so far? “You don’t need to see my birth certificate.” “I don’t need to see your birth certificate.” (The Volokh Conspiracy)
Andrew Jackson on Nullification
September 27, 2010 by
I ran across an interesting piece of political history this weekend. With nullification occasionally making the news across the country, I thought it was interesting to see how the executive responded to it in one of its first appearances, during the Administration of Andrew Jackson. THE Constitution of the United States forms a government, not […]
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