Justin Logan Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are bogged down on the same issues that have bogged them down for years: territory and security guarantees. Kyiv is clinging tightly to the demand for US security guarantees. Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that it is essential that this document on security guarantees provides concrete answers to what concerns ...
Walter Olson Number eighteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Is this where it finally stops? Indiana Senate rejects demands for mid-decade redistricting, with a majority of Republicans joining all Democrats [WRTV Indianapolis] Some of the pressure applied on GOP recusants [swattings and phoned threats; “I’d rather my house not get firebombed”; and then there’s ...
Colleen Hroncich The roots of Faithscape Learning Pod in Casa Grande, AZ, stretch back to founder Deja Hillis’s childhood. “As a student myself with a disability, a hearing disability, I got to see kind of firsthand what my teachers dealt with trying to accommodate me. But also, I got to see the stresses of children as they cope through disability,” she ...
Jeffrey A. Singer The Washington Post reports that President Trump plans to issue an executive order that would have the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reclassify cannabis from its current Schedule I status, which means “no currently accepted medical use and high potential for abuse,” to Schedule III, indicating a “moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.” Schedule I ...
Peter Goettler “Does ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ mean I can drink before noon? These are all important questions.” – P.J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) With America’s intense level of partisanship showing no signs of abating, I recently reread P. J. O’Rourke’s final book: A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land (2020). It offers a laugh-filled yet serious meditation on America’s ...
Matthew Cavedon A new article in the Harvard Law Review by NYU Law Professor Emma Kaufman shows that plea bargaining violates the historical meaning of the Constitution. She explains that throughout the nineteenth century, still-familiar constitutional rules governed criminal procedure: a case could be prosecuted only if there existed a proper indictment, trial by a twelve-person jury in the correct ...
Matthew Cavedon In February 2024, petitioner Munson Hunter entered a guilty plea to one federal count of aiding and abetting wire fraud. He did so pursuant to a written plea agreement containing a provision waiving nearly all of his rights to appeal the sentence. Three months later, Mr. Hunter was sentenced. At that time, he objected to a requirement that ...
David J. Bier This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published data intended to prove that DHS immigration arrests are “starting with the worst of the worst.” DHS incoherently calls the list the “dictionary of depravity.” But its own data show the opposite: DHS is not prioritizing the “worst of the worst.” It is running up its arrest numbers ...
Benjamin Giltner Yesterday, the House of Representative voted on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which determines the authorized funds for next year’s defense budget. A major feat, though long overdue, is Congress’s repeal of the Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) related to Iraq. However, this NDAA still has the same problem as those of years past—namely, its insistence on ...
Jennifer Huddleston Cato Institute intern Denison Hatch contributed to this article. Last Congress saw a debate over the Open App Market Act (OAMA), which would have created numerous additional regulations, supposedly to increase competition, on how app stores operate. Now, a similar proposal has been introduced in this Congress, the App Store Fairness Act (ASFA). However, app stores still don’t require some sort ...