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Walter Olson President Donald Trump has moved to strip security clearances from lawyers at the storied international law firm of Covington & Burling to punish it for providing legal assistance…

Walter Olson Only days ago, Trump administration lawyers were unable to tell a judge who was the administrator of DOGE, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, which by slashing agency…

Robert A. Levy This blog post updates and substantially enlarges my previous post on December 20, 2024. 1. When are executive orders valid and when are they invalid? The ground…

Stephen Slivinski Ten years ago, on February 25, the Supreme Court of the United States reminded us that maybe the Sherman Antitrust Act, the federal statute passed in 1890 intended…

Jeffrey A. Singer When Mark Ibsen, MD, spoke as a panelist in the Cato online event “Pain Refugees: Collateral Damage in the War on Drugs” last December, he had no…

Clark Neily On February 10, Cato filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit supporting a challenge to Texas’s “Right to Examine” statute, which grants the state attorney general authority…

Jennifer Huddleston On February 20, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a request for information (RFI) on “Technology Platform Censorship.” The last section of the RFI asks, “Were platforms’ adverse…

Clark Neily In his new book examining the “explosion” of freedom-restricting laws over the past few decades, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, Justice Neil Gorsuch advances…

David Inserra The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it was requesting comments about “technology platform censorship.” The FTC letter suggests that social media content moderation may somehow be…

Matt Mittelsteadt At the recent AI Action Summit, Vice President JD Vance delivered a barnburner debut on the international policy stage. In his fifteen-minute address, the vice president distilled Trump-era…