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If the evidence is as strong as the grand jury found probable cause to believe, then the SPLC must be taken down brick by brick. Source link
China might have-but wouldn’t want Washington to know. Source link
Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Ed Source link
Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces criticism for prioritizing Senate customs over passing the Save America Act sought by 95% of GOP voters. Source link
One of the more unexpected aspects of the Birthright Citizenship case was the return of Justice John Marshall Harlan. But I think a more careful study of Harlan’s lectures suggests that at least part of Trump’s order may survive: specifically, the status of children whose mother is in the United States on a tourist or other limited visa. I discuss this question in a new Civitas Outlook essay. Here is the introduction: The conventional wisdom is that the Supreme Court will strike down President Trump’s entire birthright citizenship order. In 2018, I wrote that children of illegal aliens are citizens at…
If you follow public policy debates, you are probably familiar with the concept of unintended consequences. Laws or regulations implemented with good intentions can, over time, have unexpected, unintended negative effects, sometimes undermining or fully negating the good intention behind the rule. But even laws that have not actually passed can have unintended consequences. You can think of them as risk taxes, since they increase the costs of already-high-risk activities. Case in point, the Senate’s housing bill. The bill is intended to address the nation’s housing crisis, making home ownership easier and cheaper for ordinary Americans by increasing housing supply.…
Let’s talk about something silly, but quite revealing: Would you press the red button or the blue button? A version of this puzzle goes viral on social media from time to time; this week, writer Tim Urban kicked things off, and YouTube giant MrBeast, who often sets up competitions in which participants have to play prisoner’s dilemma–style mind games for money, soon followed suit. You are reading Free Media from Robby Soave and Reason. Get more of Robby’s on-the-media, disinformation, and free speech coverage. The setup, per MrBeast, is this: Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a…
You Can Only Paper Over Physical Scarcity For So Long… I’m watching the numbers flicker on the screen — Brent crude at $92, WTI hovering near $97 — and I feel a profound sense of dread. This isn’t a market; it’s a meticulously crafted fiction. We are being lied to on a scale so vast it defies comprehension. The current paper price for oil is a government-constructed lie, a narrative woven by desperate authorities to maintain a false sense of stability while the physical foundations of our world crack beneath us. This manipulation isn’t just an economic curiosity; it’s a…
Milla74/Dreamstime The ImmigrationProf Blog site has been hosting a symposium on the birthright citizenship case oral argument, which took place before the Supreme Court earlier this month. They now have a post compiling links to the different posts, including one of my own. The other contributors are all prominent immigration law and constitutional law scholars. I include the links below: Jack Chin on Lessons from the Oral Arguments Ilya Somin, Justice Barrett, Slavery, and Birthright Citizenship Bearing the Sins of the Father…. by Ediberto Roman Rachel E. Rosenbloom, The Solicitor General Crossed a Line in Trump v. Barbara The Citizenship…
The government must improve and increase Secret Service protection to keep potential killers out of reach of the president. Source link