Nicholas Anthony European Central Bank officials pride themselves on championing democracy, but they seem to apply those values selectively. After submitting a public records request and conversing for weeks, the…
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Schmidt v. City of Norfolk Brief: Automated License Plate Readers Commit Fourth Amendment Searches
Matthew Cavedon ALPR cameras in Pensacola, FL. (Photo: Tony Webster) Norfolk, Virginia, has deployed nearly 200 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the city, capturing every passing vehicle’s location, time,…
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Making Sense—or Not—of the Executive Order on “Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit”
Solveig Singleton Conventional wisdom holds that lax mortgage underwriting standards contributed to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Ostensibly, legislators intended the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s Ability to Repay (ATR) and Qualified Mortgage…
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Jeffrey A. Singer When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) placed psychedelics in Schedule I (“no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse”) in 1970, it created regulatory…
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Michael Chapman President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States should leave NATO, pointing to allies’ refusal to help patrol the Strait of Hormuz and limits on using US…
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Scott Lincicome and Chad Smitson In a scramble to replace “emergency” tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court, the Trump administration imposed temporary 10 percent tariffs under Section 122 of the…
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Pharms v. United States Brief: Judges Shouldn’t Sentence People for Things the Jury Found They Didn’t Do
Matthew Cavedon Keith Pharms was arrested and charged with five counts involving a gunfight between, among others, Mr. Pharms and a police officer. The jury was specifically asked whether Mr.…
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Walter Olson On April 13, Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill making Virginia the eighteenth state to adopt the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), under which participating states and…
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Thomas A. Berry, Brent Skorup, and Alexander Xenos The Supreme Court has long recognized a “nondelegation doctrine,” which holds that Congress must provide executive agencies with an “intelligible principle” to…
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Patrick G. Eddington On April 15, the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) came out in opposition to the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 program.…