The tangled web of congressional preferences.
I am a regular reader of the SCOTUSblog. It is THE resource for things going on at the U.S....
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Sorry, Ivanka, the states are not mere political subdivisions of the federal government.
If Ivanka Trump was just the president’s daughter, her lack of understanding of how...
Read MoreQuick hit: iPhone, SCOTUS and antitrust law
(“Quick hit” means I am reacting to media coverage and not the SCOTUS’ decision itself). According to CNN, the United States Supreme Court ruled today that “iPhone owners can sue Apple for monopolizing...
Read MoreEpisode 31 of The Law with D.K. Williams is now available.
Does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect against LGBT discrimination? The Supreme Court will decide that issue next year. Check out the discussion with The Law right here.
Read MoreA headline from The Atlantic explains modern legal idiocy…errr…belief
The Atlantic website has this article: The Supreme Court’s Death Drive Five conservative justices are bent on defending a policy that is unpopular, expensive, and cruel. The article, by Garrett Epps, a “professor of...
Read MoreListen to The Law with D.K. Williams here
For all of the podcasts, click the pic. Or here. Episode list: THE LAW EP 26, MIRANDA V ARIZONA (1966) THE LAW EP 25, TIMBS V INDIANA (2019) THE LAW EP 24, WARREN V. DC THE LAW EP 23, CITY OF CASTLE ROCK V GONZALEZ (2005) THE...
Read MoreThe Law with D.K. Williams, episode 25, Timbs v Indiana (2019)
Tyson Timbs pled guilty to a $400 drug transaction in Indiana. Government agents used that as pretext to steal his $42,000 car he purchased with money he got from his dad’s death. The US Supreme Court held that the 8th...
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The latest on Obamacare: Does the power to tax apply when there is no longer a tax?
If the United States Congress has no time to read the bills upon which it actually votes, I guess...
Read MoreVideo: Liberty on the Rocks, Denver, February 2018
Long time fan favorite David K. Williams, Jr. joins us to offer a libertarian critique of the United States Constitution and a few key Supreme Court cases.
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Is Kavanaugh really a textualist?
The United States Constitution does not grant a single right to anyone. It limits the power of the...
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Read this from the SCOTUSblog re admin law and Kavanaugh
Hey, that rhymes! Sadly, the rest does not and is not funny at all. It is rather sad. This excerpt...
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The Masterpiece Cakeshop decision: What it really means
First, An Exhortation As always, do not form any strong opinions about the decision without...
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"San Diego State University suspends all fraternities following student's death" https://t.co/QRizOYb2di
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"The Constitution is a compact enduring for more than our time, and one Congress cannot yield up its own powers, much less those of other Congresses to follow. Abdication of responsibility is not part of the constitutional design."
--Justice Kennedy
"No political truth ... is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty .... [than the separation of powers because] [t]he accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...
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