By Tim Lynch
AG Eric Holder gave an address on Monday where he offered a legal rationale for the power of the president to kill American citizens who are outside of the United States and who are suspected of terrorist activity. George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley responds: On Monday, March 5, Northwestern University School of Law [...]
Attorney General Holder and Executive Power is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
Michael and Chantelle Sackett bought some Idaho land and began placing gravel fill on the site to prepare for laying a foundation for their dream home. Then they got something from the EPA: a “Compliance Order,” declaring that they were in violation of the Clean Water Act, because their land had been deemed a “wetland” [...]
EPA Actions Should Be Subject to Judicial Review is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
This blogpost was coauthored by Cato legal associate Chaim Gordon. Thanks to the Institute for Justice, those suffering from leukemia and various other ailments that require them to wait for a bone marrow match to miraculously appear have new hope. Yesterday’s unanimous opinion by the Ninth Circuit in Flynn v. Holder effectively deregulates the bone-marrow market—and [...]
Ninth Circuit Gets It Right, Deregulates the Bone Marrow Market is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
This blogpost was coauthored by Cato legal associate Trevor Burrus, who also worked on the brief discussed below. Rent control is literally a textbook example of bad economic policy. Economics textbooks often use it as an example of how price ceilings create shortages, poor quality goods, and under-the-table dealings. A 1992 survey revealed that 93 [...]
Rent Control Violates Property Rights and Due Process is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
Challenges to Florida’s unconstitutional drug laws continue to gain momentum. Following a successful federal district court challenge to the constitutionality of state statutes lacking a mens rea requirement (mental culpability, rather than, for example, incidental possession), people convicted under them have come forward en masse to ask Florida courts to reexamine their convictions. As described in the background [...]
More on the Constitution’s Lack of a Drug-War Exception is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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