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Jul 26, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Edgar Beltrán |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry
On July 28, Venezuela will hold a presidential election amid suspicions of fraud among the opposition. The dictator, Nicolás Maduro, will face 74-year-old former diplomat Edmundo González. If the elections were fair, most studies point to a 20-25 percent advantage for González. Many believe that Maduro will steal the election or disqualify González at the last minute. So why do many in Venezuela still believe it’s worth putting up a fight? How Did We Get Here?
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | John O. McGinnis |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry
July 25, 2024 Despite accusations that Amy Coney Barrett is drifting left, she is doing the hard work of building up the originalist legal culture. This term, the spotlight among both conservative and liberal Court watchers has been on Amy Coney Barrett’s not infrequent breaks from her fellow Republican-appointed justices. Liberal commentators have been quick to praise her, especially in contrast to those colleagues.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Kevin Frazier |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry
As courts and administrative agencies encounter uncertainty posed by the post-Chevron era, a few foundational principles remain in place and serve as guides through doctrinal disruption. For one, courts have the authority and capacity to say what the law is. Likewise, if Congress unambiguously mandates a specific agency action, including the means to perform that act, jurists and scholars alike agree that Congress’s mandate must be followed.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Adam Tomkins |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
Classically, constitutions do two things. They allocate and distribute power, and they provide the means whereby the people can hold that power to account. Power and accountability are what constitutions are all about. In the modern age, a third function has been added—that constitutions also set out (or enumerate) the fundamental rights of citizens—but this third function need not concern us here. In Trump v.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
Bob Newhart has died at the age of 94—the comic who was our last connection with mid-century America. He became famous with the live comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960), which was a big hit, selling more than 1,000,000 copies and winning him two Grammys: Best New Artist and Album of The Year.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James J Heaney |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
July 23, 2024 Trump v. United States was not an originalist decision, but the justices had no good options. Given the hoopla, the most striking thing about Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion in Trump v.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
There is a crisis of political legitimacy in both of the countries, Britain and France, in which I have a home. Both countries have an electoral system well-suited to a political life in which there are two overwhelmingly dominant parties: the Conservatives and Labour in Britain, the Gaullists and the Socialists in France.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Paul Mueller |Mark Hall |Christopher M Parry |John Grove
When Americans think about religious liberty, our minds naturally turn to the protections offered by the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This amendment, and related federal legislation, offer important protections, but there are numerous areas in which states are free to protect, or not protect, religious liberty.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Victor Davis Hanson |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |John Grove
Aristotle is known for the theory that there are four causes structuring reality. Best-selling author and American classicist Victor Davis Hanson follows Aristotle’s lead, identifying four causes that transform wars into civilization-ending defeats. Whilst most conflicts between great powers end in compromise, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation gives four reasons why wars sometimes liquidate entire civilizations.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Nellie Bowles |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
“Hence like most people who have substituted the habit of delusion for reality, they became hysterical whenever the root of their delusion was touched, and reacted with a violence that completely belied the openness of mind which they prescribed for others.”— Whittaker Chambers, Witness, 1952Nellie Bowles could easily have used Chambers’ observation as the epigraph for Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History.
