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An Insider’s Look at the Implications of ATF’s Bump Stock Ban Being Vacated
In Orwell’s 1984, after years of war against Eurasia as Eastasia’s ally, Oceania abruptly switches sides, becoming Eurasia’s ally against Eastasia. Instead of articulating a policy change, the government simply rewrote history to declare that “Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” The modern Administrative State uses the same Orwellian tactic to rewrite the law.…
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Make Income-Based Repayment Great Again
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Assuming it does not simply abolish the Department of Education, the Trump Administration will have to fix the mess left by President Biden’s repeated unlawful (and unsuccessful) attempts to cancel student loans. The biggest challenge may be the fallout from the illegal Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program, which lowers participants’ monthly payments to virtually…
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Schrödinger’s Cat, Jurisdiction, and Missouri v. Biden
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Missouri v. Biden was one of the premier free speech cases at the Supreme Court last term. The Supreme Court dissolved the injunction against various Government agencies from silencing Americans with which it disagreed on such things as forced vaccination, the efficacy of vaccines, whether Hunter Biden’s laptop left in a repair shop was actually…
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The Golden Age of Jury Trial Rights?
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Earlier this year, the Supreme Court decided two significant cases regarding jury trial rights—Erlinger v. United States and SEC v. Jarkesy. Even though these cases arose under different amendments, Erlinger under the Sixth Amendment, guaranteeing the right to a jury trial “in all criminal proceedings[,]” and Jarkesy under the Seventh Amendment, guaranteeing the right to…
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ALJs: Unnatural Law Judges
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Core to American democracy is John Locke’s insight that the purpose of government is to preserve the people’s natural rights to life, liberty, and property. To accomplish this goal, a government must provide a “known and indifferent judge, with authority to determine all differences according to the established Law.” Locke specifically warned that “for every…
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The Supreme Court’s Corner Post Ruling: Restoring Justice Where It’s Due
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The Supreme Court deserves some additional praise for its decision resolving a circuit split on a fine point of administrative law in Corner Post from its most recent term. Without acknowledging as much, the majority in Corner Post affirmed an elementary proposition of moral and legal justice that had fallen by the wayside. In one…
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