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Authoritarian Governments Ban Bitcoin Mining. The U.S. Shouldn’t Join Them.
Is there anything you can do as a government to prevent bitcoin from being used? Are you able to make the world believe that it […]
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The Right to Defy Criminal Demands: The Heckler’s Veto
A rough draft has been completed. You have the right to resist criminal demandsThis article was very interesting and so I decided I would serialize […]
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Today in Supreme Court History: January 25, 1819
1/25/1819: Thomas Jefferson charters the University of Virginia The Supreme Court would rule 176 more years later. Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of University of Virginia (1995). […]
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Photo: Little Amal, World Traveler
Little Amal was an 11-foot puppet that traveled across eight countries, 65 towns and cities in July 2021 and November 2021. Its mission: to celebrate […]
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Brickbat: Prioritize What's Important
California Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of Los Angeles Police Department officers for failing to follow a supervisor’s request to attend to an ongoing […]
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Why the Supreme Court’s Decision in NFIB v. OSHA May Be Even Worse News for Climate Regulation than You Thought
Supreme Court rejected the Occupational Safety and Health Administration emergency vax or-test mandate. This decision showed that a majority of Supreme Court members are skeptical […]
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How much of the quantum tech boom is just welfare for physicists?
After reading Law and Policy in the Quantum Age by Chris Hoofnagle and Simson Garfinkel, that’s what I was asking myself. This book, written in […]
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My NBC Article on the Affirmative Action Cases Accepted by the Supreme Court.
NBC News published my article today on the Supreme Court’s role in two affirmative-action cases that were heard earlier today. Below is a sample: Monday’s […]
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Will the Supreme Court Ask Harvard How it Justifies Treating “Asian Americans” as a Homogenous Category?
There are many ethical, legal and political issues that arise from affirmative action in higher education. Particularly in the context of Harvard University discrimination against […]
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Why Does the Supreme Court Refer to Preferences for Hispanics/Latinos as “Racial Preferences”?
In my book Classified I discuss the fact that when the Office of Management and Budget introduced the Statistical Directive 15 “Hispanic”, later changed to […]