Solutions should focus on undercutting the incentives that merge corporate and government interests. To preserve freedom for posterity, liberty-minded policymakers should be working to stymie the government’s ability to capture and control data in the digital commons. This means preventing public-private partnerships that give government control over private data.
Category: Civil Liberty
Safetyism is a menace to family life
A mother in Texas was arrested for letting her eight-year-old walk home alone.
The Case for Bringing Back Neckties (and Classical Liberalism)
Liberalism—or, to clarify, classical liberalism… —is (like the necktie) a bit out of favor. That’s ironic, because it produced so much good.
He jokingly compared covid to a zombie apocalypse. An arrest followed.
Waylon Bailey’s Facebook post joked that deputies had been ordered to ‘shoot on sight’ if they came across someone with the coronavirus
“I need to stand up for myself because what [deputies] did was morally wrong,” Bailey told The Washington Post. “They came to my home three hours after I made the post. What sort of investigation is that? And for what? A joke they didn’t like? It’s messed up.”
After Supreme Court Ruling, States Grapple With How To Define an Excessive Fine
The Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Timbs v. Indiana revived the Excessive Fines Clause. Now state courts have to come up with tests to determine what’s excessive.
“Surely, if the Excessive Fines Clause means anything, it means that the government cannot confiscate a defendant’s entire net worth when the maximum fine set by the legislature is less than one-tenth of the value of the forfeited asset.”
What We Knew In the Early Days
We certainly live in an age of short attention span but many these signs and warnings came weeks or months before the world locked down and they chronicled the damage as it was happening. Why all this came to be completely ignored remains the burning question.
Beauty Pageants Have First Amendment Right to Limit Contestants to “Natural Born Females”
So holds the Ninth Circuit; Hamilton plays a major role.
We conclude that the district court was correct to grant the Pageant’s motion for summary judgment, but reach this conclusion not under the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of association but rather under the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech….
False Representation
Why it’s important for Students for Fair Admissions to win its discrimination case against Harvard
Racial representation’s ultimate sin is that it dehumanizes. When Harvard rejects some Asians because they are already “represented” by other Asians, in order to admit some blacks to “represent” other blacks, it collapses these students to their skin colors. The phrase “people who look like me”—which one hears so often these days—is profoundly reductionist, implying that all blacks look alike, that all Asians look alike, and more essentially, that they are alike. This is racism.
https://www.city-journal.org/the-supreme-court-and-harvards-racial-discrimination?
Federal Judge Criticizes SEC “No-Admit-No-Deny Provisions” in Enforcement Action Settlements
No matter how weak, or strong, the allegations in the complaint may be—indeed, even if the testimony of key witnesses proves to be false—if defendants ever consider publicly defending themselves, the No-Admit-No- Deny Provision prevents them from doing so.
A Federal Judge Says New York’s Ban on Guns in Church Is Unconstitutional
The Constitution requires that individuals be permitted to use handguns for the core lawful purpose of self-defense. And it protects that right outside the home and in public.