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Are COVID Vaccine Mandates for Kids Legal?
In the News
In the years before COVID-19 dramatically altered our political landscape, the smattering of parents throughout the country who questioned the necessity of routine childhood immunizations caught the attention of news media. Derided for touting scientifically unsubstantiated theories, such as linking vaccines to autism, these Americans were assigned the pejorative “anti-vaxxers” and hardly ever taken seriously,…
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Justice Gorsuch Embraces the Rule of Lenity—and Underscores Textualism’s Modest Goals
Richard Samp
In its decision earlier this month in Wooden v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 1063 (2022), the Supreme Court had little difficulty rejecting the Solicitor General’s expansive interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). That statute mandates a 15-year minimum sentence for felons who violate firearms-possession bans and who have at least three…
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Amici for Freedom and the Fate of Free Speech
In the News
What will be the fate of free speech in the United States? The answer is coming soon from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Netchoice v. Paxton. Last year, Texas protected free speech from Big Tech censorship by passing a statute finding that the largest social media platforms are “common carriers”…
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Energy Security Is National Security
Harriet Hageman
In December 200,8 Marine Corps General James Jones (Ret) wrote in a Wall Street Journal article that “You can’t use the word energy independence. It is not a valid phrase. It is designed to excite people. But it is simply not going to happen.” At the time that Mr. Jones made this pronouncement, the…
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State Court Docket Watch: Corman v. Acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health
In the News
On December 10, 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously affirmed,[1] on expedited direct appeal, a state trial court opinion[2] nullifying the state Department of Health’s mask mandate for all public schools. The Supreme Court agreed with the en banc trial court’s ruling that the state Department of Health lacked authority to require masks in the…
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