Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia I don’t know. It feels like we’re paying into this system that was designed for a completely different world. I mean, it was set up 90 years ago, and the way things are going now, it just doesn’t add up anymore. People are living longer, fewer workers are supporting more retirees, and the debt is skyrocketing. ...
Jennifer Huddleston The Supreme Court recently ruled that a Texas law that requires age verification to access sexual material harmful to minors was subject to intermediate scrutiny in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Advocates of age verification have trumpeted this as a significant win; however, the ruling should properly be understood in a narrow context. Not only does the Court’s ...
Mike Fox NYU Law Professor Rachel Barkow has written an extraordinary new book, Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. It is a damning indictment of our judicial system’s complicity in the dramatic expansion of incarceration over the past several decades. Judge-made changes in the law have created a new status quo: The United ...
David J. Bier Immigrant workers seeking a green card—which denotes legal permanent residence in the United States—now face almost a three-and-a-half-year wait to make it through the government’s regulatory morass. Paying a $2,805 fee could reduce this wait to “only” 2.8 years. Since 2016, the government has added over 18 months to the average green card process. This needs to change ...
Jeffrey Miron In November 2020, Oregon voters adopted Measure 109, which legalized the therapeutic use of psilocybin in supervised, licensed facilities. While a significant step away from prohibition, the regulatory framework developed by the Oregon Health Authority still keeps such treatment, while legal, only modestly accessible. The Oregon model does not permit recreational sales or personal cultivation. Instead, it mandates ...
Akiva Malamet, Bautista Vivanco, and Michael F. Cannon The Trump administration is planning to expand Medicare and Medicaid coverage of expensive weight-loss drugs like Ozempic under a five-year experiment, according to documents the Washington Post obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. While Ozempic and other GLP‑1 drugs are great at helping patients lose weight (among many other promising ...
Walter Olson When a dispute comes to court, it’s routine for judges to issue short-term orders aimed at freezing existing conditions long enough for the court to determine whether it has authority to hear the case and make sure its jurisdiction is not defeated by the removal or destruction of some relevant piece of property or person in custody. After ...
Nicholas Anthony President Donald Trump’s executive order on debanking is a mixed bag. It’s less aggressive than his tone on TV when he accused banks of discriminating against him and his supporters. Yet, it still leaves open several questions. At a glance, the executive order requires the following: Regulators must remove the use of reputational risk regulation. Banks must offer ...
Mike Fox and Matthew Cavedon In 2015, Duane Berry was charged with a single count of conveying false information and hoaxes—a federal property crime carrying a maximum of five years in prison. After four years in custody and two rounds of competency evaluations, a judge found Berry incompetent to stand trial and dismissed the charge. That should have ended the ...
Colleen Hroncich Home education has a deep and rich tradition predating any other educational model. Despite this, it became illegal in many states after they began passing compulsory schooling laws in the mid-1800s. Parents who chose to educate their children at home even faced jail time. In the 1970s and 1980s, the homeschooling movement really gained steam, and many states ...