By Ilya Shapiro
If the First Amendment means anything, then school officials cannot prohibit students from handing out gifts with Christmas messages due to the religious content of those messages. Nonetheless, the Fifth Circuit …
The First Amendment Protects Students’ Rights to Speak on Religious Subjects is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Neal McCluskey
Today is the mid-point of National School Choice Week, and we’re once again rockin’ to the oldies of prognostication. This time we’re going all the way back to the Mann. That’s Horace Mann, the “Father of the Common School” himself. It is Mann who, among many things, is probably most responsible for introducing one of the deepest underlying sentiments supporting government schooling: [...]
No Common Schools, No Peace? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Jim Harper
Does a more careful reading of the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Jones turn up a lurking victory for the government? Modern media moves so fast that the second-day story happens in the afternoon of the first. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday morning that government agents conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they [...]
The Second-Day Story on U.S. v. Jones is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Julian Sanchez
As I noted on Friday, the seizure of popular cyberlocker Megaupload demonstrates that, even without controversial new legislation, our government already has extraordinarily broad powers to take down U.S.-registered websites (including any site in the .com and .org domains) before anyone has been tried for illegal conduct, let alone convicted. While the evidence presented in [...]
The Megaupload Chilling Effects Hit is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By John Samples
Lately I have argued that Super PACs, a result of the SpeechNow judicial decision, have enhanced democratic debate in the 2012 presidential election. Super PACs have had one undeniable specific result this year: they enabled a donor to give a Super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich several million dollars. Mr. Gingrich, it turns out, has put [...]
Should I Change My Mind about Super PACs? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Julian Sanchez
Today’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Jones makes it clear that government installation and use of GPS tracking devices is a Fourth Amendment “search”—but it may be the concurring opinions, rather than Justice Scalia’s majority opinion, that are most significant for Americans’ privacy in the 21st century. As Jim Harper notes, Justice [...]
Jonesing for a Fourth Amendment Upgrade is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Julian Sanchez
Today’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Jones makes it clear that government installation and use of GPS tracking devices is a Fourth Amendment “search”—but it may be the concurring opinions, rather than Justice Scalia’s majority opinion, that are most significant for Americans’ privacy in the 21st century. As Jim Harper notes, Justice [...]
“Jones”ing for a Fourth Amendment Upgrade is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Jim Harper
The Supreme Court has delivered a big win for privacy in U.S. v. Jones. That’s the case in which government agents placed a GPS device on a car and used it to track a person round-the-clock for four weeks. The question before the Court was whether the government may do this in the absence of [...]
U.S. v. Jones: A Big Privacy Win is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Jim Harper
The Supreme Court has delivered a big win for privacy in U.S. v. Jones. That’s the case in which government agents placed a GPS device on a car and used it to track a person round-the-clock for four weeks. The question before the Court was whether the government may do this in the absence of [...]
U.S. v. Jones: A Big Privacy Win is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Julian Sanchez
Online activists were still busy celebrating a successful day of protest against proposed (and now shelved) Internet censorship legislation when the Justice Department pulled the popular cyberlocker site Megaupload offline Thursday, and indicted its owners on charges of criminal copyright infringement. It was a serendipitously timed demonstration of two important facts. First, the U.S. legal [...]
FBI Reminds Us Government Already Has MegaPower to Take Down Websites is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
