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18 Sep 2011, 9:42 am
Update: More thoughts on the apology from Gideon Kanner , the Queens, NY-based property owners' blog Willits Point United, and from eminent domain scholar lawprof Ilya Somin. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Comes word from Jeff Benedict, author of the Kelo book Little Pink House, via his blog and a story in the Hartford Courant, that one of the Connecticut Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of the government approached Mrs. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 10:40 pm
(Ilya Somin) Brookings Institution scholar Clifford Winston recently published a good column advocating the abolition of legal requirements mandating that all lawyers must graduate from law schools and pass bar exams:For decades the legal industry has operated as a monopoly, which has been made possible by its self-imposed rules and state licensing restrictions — namely, the requirements that lawyers must graduate from an American Bar Association-accredited law school… [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 11:14 pm
(Ilya Somin) I agree with most of what co-blogger Sasha Volokh says in his post on Gal Beckerman’s important new book on the political struggle over Jewish emigration from the USSR.For example, it is indeed true (and in retrospect, very interesting) that the campaign united many ideologically disparate groups in the US. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 8:45 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Obama Administration’s decision not to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act has inspired a great deal of criticism from commentators who believe that it is an unwise or illegitimate extension of executive power. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 11:05 am
(Ilya Somin) I have generally been pessimistic about the prospects of the “liberaltarian” project of forging an alliance between libertarians and liberals (e.g. here and here). [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 12:08 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post on Prawfsblawg, NYU lawprof Rick Hills — a major federalism scholar — argues that federalism concerns justify strictly limiting federal court enforcement of constitutional property rights: SCOTUS’ decision yesterday in Stop the Beach Renourishment v. [read post]
17 May 2010, 12:00 pm
(Ilya Somin) I tend to agree with Eugene that today’s Supreme Court decision in United States v. [read post]
24 May 2012, 7:00 am
(Ilya Somin) In a previous post, I argued that Supreme Court justices should not decide the individual mandate case based on the decision’s effect on their perceived “legitimacy. [read post]
23 May 2012, 12:28 pm
(Ilya Somin) Various defenders of the individual mandate have long argued that if the Court strikes down the law, it is likely to lead to the resuscitation of Lochner v. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 7:50 am
(Ilya Somin) St. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 6:11 pm
(Ilya Somin) Yale Law Professor Heather Gerken, a prominent federalism scholar, has an interesting article in Democracy urging her fellow liberals to take a more favorable view of federalism: Progressives are deeply skeptical of federalism, and with good reason. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 9:22 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Third Amendment, which forbids the quartering of troops in private homes without the owner’s consent, is often the butt of jokes. [read post]
1 May 2012, 6:45 am
(Ilya Somin) The Cato Unbound website recently hosted an interesting debate over efforts by “Bleeding Heart Libertarians” to incorporate “social justice” into libertarian political theory. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 10:24 pm
(Ilya Somin) Following up my post on what might happen if liberals and libertarians agreed on empirical issues, this post addresses the question of what might happen if libertarians came to agree on empirical issues with conservatives.Unfortunately, answering this question is a lot tougher than the previous one about liberals. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 10:25 am
(Ilya Somin) If libertarians value liberty so much, wonders New Zealand-based libertarian economist Eric Crampton, why don’t more of them move to New Zealand? [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 12:58 am
(Ilya Somin) There are some great historical events where it’s difficult to tell whether their net effect was positive or not. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 1:25 am
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post, co-blogger Orin Kerr outlines what has become the standard argument that the Obama health care plan’s individual mandate is authorized by the Necessary and Proper Clause. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 9:55 pm
(Ilya Somin) Over at Libertarianism.Org, Jonathan Blanks has an interesting series of posts criticizing libertarians who defend the secession of the Southern states that precipitated the civil war (see here and here). [read post]
21 May 2023, 12:28 pm
My rejoinder follows, and is in regular text: A Reply to Professor Somin about Illegal Immigration and "Invasion" Professor Ilya Somin recently wrote a blog post here titled "Immigration is not 'Invasion'" responding to an earlier blog post of mine at the Originalism Blog. [read post]
18 Feb 2025, 6:23 am
[Sky News] * Ilya Somin pens takedown of the New York Times’ “hey we don’t actually have legal support for this, but what if the Fourteenth Amendment really didn’t include birthright citizenship” article. [read post]
