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[Ilya Somin] Keeping Out Hitler: Can Immigration Restrictions be Justified by the Need to Exclude Individuals who Might Cause Extraordinary Harm?
14 Jul 2022, 5:58 pm by Ilya Somin
[Critics of immigration restrictions often cite immigrants who make extraordinary contributions to the society. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] What's New in the Revised Edition of "Free to Move," Part II: Implications of Remote Work for Foot Voting
22 Nov 2021, 8:30 am by Ilya Somin
[Widespread remote work opens up new opportunities for foot voting, but may in some cases make foot voting less important. ] The revised edition of my book Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom comes out on December 1. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Court Decision Striking Down Albuquerque Asset Forfeiture Program Could Help Protect Property Rights Around the Country
1 Aug 2018, 2:25 pm by Ilya Somin
If accepted by other courts, the judge's reasoning could curb a variety of other state and federal asset forfeiture policies that threaten the property rights of innocent people. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Most Migrants Deported to Imprisonment in El Salvador Under the Alien Enemies Act Had no Criminal Record and Many had Entered the US Legally
20 May 2025, 3:02 pm by Ilya Somin
[A new Cato Institute study by David Bier presents the most extensive available evidence on these points.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Conservative Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw Says Republican Leaders' Election Denialism was "Always a Lie"
7 Nov 2022, 9:10 pm by Ilya Somin
[GOP politicians lied in order to exploit public ignorance. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Why "Settled Law" Isn't Really Settled - and Why That's Often a Good Thing
9 Sep 2018, 12:57 pm by Ilya Somin
The Supreme Court needs to have the power to overturn "settled" constitutional decisions in order to prevent the permanent entrenchment of terrible precedents. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] House Passes REPO Act Giving President Authority to Confiscate Russian Government Assets in the US and Transfer them to Ukraine
20 Apr 2024, 3:06 pm by Ilya Somin
[It's a good idea that will hopefully be imitiated by our allies.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] My Boston Globe op ed on What the Supreme Court Should do in the Harvard and UNC Affirmative Action Cases
7 Feb 2022, 9:47 am by Ilya Somin
[I argue the justices should crack down on the dubious "diversity" rationale for racial preferences, and curb discrimination against Asian-American applicants.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] My New Book Chapter on "Top-Down and Bottom-Up Solutions to the Problem of Political Ignorance""
27 Aug 2022, 7:45 am by Ilya Somin
[It is now available for download on SSRN. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] My New Just Security Article On Trump's "Invasion" Executive and its Dangerous Implications
28 Jan 2025, 10:24 am by Ilya Somin
Today, Just Security published my article on "The 'Invasion' Executive Order and its Dangerous Implications. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] The Case for Pursuing the Issue of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine - Even Though Putin is Highly Unlikely to Ever be Tried and Punished
10 Apr 2022, 3:50 pm by Ilya Somin
[Putin and other Russian leaders are likely guilty of massive war crimes. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Will Litigation Over Title 42 "Public Health" Migrant Expulsions Soon Become Moot When Biden Ends the Covid Emergency?
8 Feb 2023, 1:24 pm by Ilya Somin
[If so, Title 42 expulsions might finally end.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Team Libertarian Report from National Constitution Center "Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy" Project Now Available on SSRN
7 Jul 2022, 1:12 pm by Ilya Somin
[I coauthored the report with Clark Neily and Walter Olson, both of the Cato Institute. ] The Team Libertarian Report from the National Constitution Center's "Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy" is now available for free download on SSRN. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Two Federal Courts Rule Against Biden's New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan on the Same Day
24 Jun 2024, 8:50 pm by Ilya Somin
[Both rulings were by Democratic-appointed judges - a result that bodes ill for the plan's future.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Revised Edition of My Book "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom" is Now Out
14 Dec 2021, 10:45 am by Ilya Somin
[Now available on Amazon, after a supply chain delay.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Fifth Circuit Rules Against Texas in Case Where State Claimed Immigration and Drug Smuggling Qualify as "Invasion"
2 Dec 2023, 10:29 am by Ilya Somin
[The ruling is mostly based on statutory issues, but also covers the "invasion" question.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Fifth Circuit Issues Administrative Stay Blocking District Court Decision Striking Down Obamacare Preventive Care Insurance Mandates
15 May 2023, 8:15 pm by Ilya Somin
[The stay is only temporary, and could be quickly lifted. [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Federal Jury Awards $59,000 in Takings Compensation to Property Owner Whose House was Severely Damaged by SWAT Team Pursuing a Suspect
22 Jun 2022, 9:29 pm by Ilya Somin
[The ruling authorizing the award is at odds with other federal court decisions holding that law-enforcement exercises of the "police power" are exempt from takings liability.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] My Forthcoming Publius Review of Christopher Zurn, "Splitsville, USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States"
7 Dec 2023, 10:46 am by Ilya Somin
[The book argues democracy can be preserved and improved by breaking up the United States into two or more new nations.] [read post]
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[Ilya Somin] Chief Justice John Roberts Rightly Condemns Trump's Call to Impeach Judges who Rule Against Him
18 Mar 2025, 1:10 pm by Ilya Somin
[There is no justification for such impeachment efforts.] [read post]
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