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Nov 18, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Patrick M. Garry |Democracy. He |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis

The political left lacks any subtlety in its attitudes toward free speech and the First Amendment. Indeed, whenever liberals cite the First Amendment, they inevitably argue for downgrading it from the pinnacle of constitutional provisions. Although the left once stood up for speech rights, now it seems to think of the First Amendment’s protections not as a command, but simply a consideration. The left’s shifting attitudes towards free speech have become blatant in the last five years.

Aug 8, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Patrick M. Garry |Democracy. He |Robert G. Natelson |Daniel Buck

President Biden’s recently announced attempt to impose term limits and an ethics code on the Supreme Court comes just three years after his “Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court” flirted with a court-packing proposal that was backed by many in his party. These two instances represent the only significant efforts by the executive branch, aside from Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal court-packing plan, to change the makeup of the Court in response to politically unwanted judicial opinions.

Jul 9, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Patrick M. Garry |Democracy. He |Isaac Willour |Paul Seaton

The United States Supreme Court continues to reaffirm and return to the founding principles ingrained within the Constitution. In recent days, that reaffirmation has occurred within the area of administrative law, where the Court’s decisions have invigorated the doctrine of separation of powers and strengthened the liberty protections of the jury trial. In what may be the most far-reaching decision of this term, the Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v.

Jun 30, 2023 | nationofchange.org | Derrick Jackson |Democracy. He |Yale Press

Reposted with permission from Union of Concerned Scientists. The year is only half done and the United States has already been enveloped by acrid orange skies in the East, battered by winter rains and floods in California, seared by record winter temperatures in the South, soaked by a record 26-inch April deluge in Fort Lauderdale, and broiled by record spring heat in the Pacific Northwest, Texas, and Puerto Rico.