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22 Jan 2008, 2:46 am
David Kopel of the libertarian Cato Institute said President Bush was elected in part because of gun rights activists and that "the citizen activists would never have spent all those hours volunteering for a candidate whose position on the constitutionality of a handgun ban was 'maybe.'  ' Sanford Levinson, a liberal University of Texas constitutional scholar who believes the Second Amendment protects individual rights, called the Bush position… [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 7:56 am
Federalism is for communitarians and not for libertarians. [read post]
23 Dec 2007, 6:38 am
That may sound strange, because in many ways they are polar opposites: the champion of the surge and the non-interventionist against the Iraq war; the occasional meddling boss of Washington and the live-and-let-live libertarian from Texas. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 7:10 am
Erstwhile Republican Congressman and libertarian legend Ron Paul consistently is the most vocal candidate on the stump from either party speaking plainly, honestly and guilelessly about every aspect of the criminal justice system, and God bless him for it.Via Pete Guither, I give you Congressman Paul from the PBS presidential debates on the drug war, the Jena 6, and why recent DNA exonerations changed his mind about the death penalty: [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 3:06 am
These include the ones who will make friends and organize the reunion party next year. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 3:06 am
These include the ones who will make friends and organize the reunion party next year. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 1:26 am
Texas elects our judges, and in the case of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals we have elected a group who Texas Monthly has called "Texas' worst court," and who continue to affirm draconian sentences in the face of legitimate "actual innocence" claims.First DNA wasn't good enough to exonerate someone, now they're relying on narrowly construed technicalities to refuse to consider new evidence in a death case. [read post]
18 Jul 2007, 1:21 pm
But there are fundamental philosophical differences between the Republican worldview and the defender worldview.For example, the principle that the slings and arrows of fortune might relieve an individual of responsibility for his actions is foreign to the Republican philosophy (I have one friend, a plaintiff's lawyer in North Texas, who was compelled to leave the Republican party when he developed too much empathy). [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 10:50 pm
That is because many of Bush's early conservative critics were actually libertarians who were skeptical of the increase in government power that comes with being a self-described "War President. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 9:58 am
According to their data, the party affiliation of the law clerks as a group is tilted decidedly toward the Democratic Party. [read post]
18 Aug 2006, 3:29 pm
One cannot understand the split, for example, between Republican libertarians (like Alex Kozinski) and social conservatives (like Scalia) by pointing merely to their both being Republicans. [read post]