Category Constitutional Law

The PayPal Fiasco Was No Accident

The PayPal Fiasco Was No Accident PayPal on Oct. 8 despatched out an replace to its phrases of use, or acceptable use coverage (AUP), that included a surprising addition. It reserved the fitting to confiscate $2,500 from individuals’s accounts in the…

Feds Are Profiting Off of Coverage: Solely Voters Can Cease Them

Feds Are Profiting Off of Coverage: Solely Voters Can Cease Them Over the previous a number of months, The Wall Road Journal has been reporting on authorities officers who revenue from their cozy relations with the non-public companies they regulate or that…

When “Affordable” Burdens Aren’t

When “Affordable” Burdens Aren’t Whereas most eyes had been on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination battle, the Supreme Courtroom opened its time period by listening to Weyerhaeuser v. Fish and Wildlife Companies, a property rights case with substantial implications for Individuals. The…

How California Housing Reforms Would Increase Staff Nationwide

How California Housing Reforms Would Increase Staff Nationwide California house costs are 250 p.c above the nationwide common, whereas month-to-month rents are about 50 p.c increased. The median value of a home within the Golden State exceeds $600,000. This isn’t…

We Obtained Housing Constructed after the 1906 Quake. We Can Do It Once more. Right here’s How.

We Obtained Housing Constructed after the 1906 Quake. We Can Do It Once more. Right here’s How. Regardless of a lot hand-wringing by California politicians over the housing disaster, residential constructing permits statewide had been decrease in 2019 than in…

California Legislators Violate Our Constitutional Rights

California Legislators Violate Our Constitutional Rights Our constitutional rights are being violated—at all times within the identify of a social good, after all. I’ll deal with 4 California issues, one among them nonetheless into consideration: 1) Gov. Gavin Newsom as…

Worry of Hobgoblins Doesnt Justify Zoning

H.L. Mencken as soon as famously stated “The entire intention of sensible politics is to maintain the populace alarmed (and therefore clamorous to be led to security) by an countless sequence of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” I’ve heard it…

Biden Going Inexperienced by Killing Jobs, Strangling Development with Crimson Tape

Regardless of the appliance of doubtful new environmental requirements that can lower throughout quite a few government businesses, the Bidens are with a straight face arguing that this may truly scale back rules. There they go once more. The “they”…

SCOTUS Correctly Reined within the EPA: Will the IRS and SEC Be Subsequent?

Within the final of a collection of landmark rulings issued on the finish of its 2021–2022 time period, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom held that federal government department businesses can not take main regulatory initiatives with out specific congressional authorization. It…

The New Inquisition

America’s progressives, led by Bernie Sanders, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden, have established an agenda and have sanctioned a technique that harkens again to a a lot earlier day: the Inquisition that began within the twelfth century. The…