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Gay Marriage Still Has an Uphill Climb

Robert A. Levy — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:16:36 +0000

By Robert A. Levy

The right answer to the same-sex marriage question is to remove government from the marriage business altogether. That’s a legislative matter, however, and not something the courts should decree. Until then, because state and federal laws confer benefits based on marital status, the equal protection provisions of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require that same-sex [...]

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Supreme Court Rejects Texas Redistricting Maps, Showing That Modern Voting Rights Act Is Outmoded and Unworkable

Ilya Shapiro — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:37:16 +0000

By Ilya Shapiro

Two weeks ago I wrote about the emergency appeal of Texas’s new redistricting maps that reached the Supreme Court last month and was argued early last week. The state argued that the interim maps a three-judge district court in San Antonio drew didn’t defer sufficiently to the maps passed by the Texas legislature (which could [...]

Supreme Court Rejects Texas Redistricting Maps, Showing That Modern Voting Rights Act Is Outmoded and Unworkable is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

Supreme Court Should Use Texas Redistricting Case to Reconsider Voting Rights Act

Ilya Shapiro — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:41:48 +0000

By Ilya Shapiro

The decennial redrawing of electoral districts consistently produces extensive litigation. The most notable cases this cycle come, as they often have, from Texas. A number of activist groups challenged the Texas legislature’s maps for state house, state senate, and congressional districts, alleging racial discrimination under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in a special [...]

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Rent Control Violates Property Rights and Due Process

Ilya Shapiro — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:31:41 +0000

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