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SEC’s Board Diversity Rules—An Unholy Alliance of Government and Industry Evading the Constitution
Peggy Little
When did it become acceptable to ask people about their race, gender identification, and sexual preferences when determining their qualifications to do a job? If the SEC—and the stock exchange it supervises, Nasdaq—have their way, the answer is quickly forthcoming: in the retrograde year 2021 when selecting people to serve on boards of directors…
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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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