Anyone with a lick of sense knew that smothering our economy would severely curtail the ability of local governments to generate sales tax revenue. Whether the doors of restaurants and other businesses are shut tight and sealed, such as in New York City and Los Angeles, or barely propped open based on some random…

Just as the cherry blossoms bloom here every spring, another regular D.C. occurrence is blooming—midnight regulations. A product of the modern administrative state, the midnight regulation period is the time between a presidential election and the inauguration of a new president, often from a different party, which is marked by increased regulatory activity. Using the…

  The issue of packing the Supreme Court is generating a lot of attention these days—often of the comic sort, if you enjoy watching Democratic candidates from President-elect Biden to the current Georgia runoff candidates bob and weave while not answering the question. Stunned by the unexpected death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and hamstrung…

Determining an appropriate punishment for criminal convictions is a delicate business. Traditionally judges have had a lot of latitude in figuring out what makes the most sense based on a particular case. But judges are people too, and they carry the same biases and limitations as everyone else. This, unfortunately, includes racial biases. As a result,…

https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-24-Thanksgiving-Blog-2020-DeGrandis-480p.mp4     Hello! I’m Michael DeGrandis. I’m Senior Litigation Counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, and this is a special Thanksgiving Edition of my blog post, available at nclalegal.org. Only instead of doing all the hard work of writing my post, I decided to draw it on a whiteboard! Let’s start with a…

  Author: NCLA Legal Intern Tabitha Kempf Every freshman law and policy aficionado who has spent any amount of time in the ring has almost certainly encountered lively talk about the Administrative State and its vast consequences for our nation. On one hand, there are those who defend the administrative state on account of its…