The Study Corner
190 – Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue – Opinion
I wrote back in March about the oral arguments in the case Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue. The court has released its opinion, so I thought it was worth a review. Once again, it’s not so much the outcome of the case, but the opinions, that are of real interest to constitutionally-minded Americans.
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186 – Limiting Free Speech in the Name of Free Speech?
Is there bias in social media? I believe the evidence is overwhelmingly yes. The question is, what is the best response? Should we limit free speech in the name of protecting it? What happens when governments pick winners and losers in the arena of free speech? We don’t have to hypothesize, because the test has already been run. and we are reaping the harvest of asking government to protect us from our rights.
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184 – Executive Frying Pans vs Judicial Fires
There’s an old say, be careful what you wish for, you may just get it. I’ve had a lot of people ask me lately about law suits against those who have been trashing our rights in the name of keeping us safe from the dreaded COVID-19 virus. While many of you have have cheered the recent decision in First Baptist Church vs. Governor Kelly, it is an example of jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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182 – The “George Floyd Federal Power Grab Act of 2020”
If there are three rules in Washington, D.C., they are: Never get between a politician and a camera. Never let a crisis go to waste. And when in doubt, pass more legislation. The “Justice in Policing Act of 2020” should be called the “George Floyd Federal Power Grab Act of 2020”.
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176 – Electoral Imbecility
Two cases before the supreme Court give enough evidence to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that our legal education system is an utter failure when it comes to the supreme law of the land. The arguments are so bad I thought my head was going to explode!
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174 – The TRACE Act – Bribing States to Spy on their Citizens
Those in the federal government using your money to bribe the states to do what they wants in nothing new. But this little piece of tyranny takes it a step further. In an effort to “protect” you from this nasty COVID-19 virus the federal government wants to pay states to spy on you.
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172 – They’re Coming for Your Children
I guess the title of this post has become a trope. It seems every time we’re told we must do something we don’t like we’re told we have to ‘do it for the children’. Every evil, every invasion of a new idea, seems couched with the idea that they are coming for our children. However,…
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170 – Giving Constitutional Scholars a Bad Name
I know lawyers do not study the Constitution in law school, but when I heard what supposed “Constitutional Scholar” Alan Dershowitz said on Crowdsource The Truth regarding state powers, all I could think is that it gave all true scholars a bad name.
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