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10 Mar 2024, 9:48 am
” And at the “Lawfare” blog, Ilya Somin has a post titled “What the Supreme Court Got Wrong in the Trump Section 3 Case: The Court botched the legal reasoning and relied heavily on dubious policy arguments. [read post]
13 May 2020, 6:00 am
Next follows a terrific group of commentators-- who have all decided to go their own ways-- including Mark Graber (Maryland), Sandy Levinson (Texas), Michael Lind (Texas), Cynthia Nicoletti (Virginia), Ilya Somin (George Mason), Robert Tsai (American University), and myself. [read post]
9 Aug 2024, 9:30 pm
Some JOTWELL items of interest: Ilya Somin reviews David Pozen's The Constitution of the War on Drugs; Scott Cummings reviews Ann Southworth's Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending (2023); Jedidiah Kroncke reviews J. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm
I am looking forward to Ilya Somin's posts on his new book. [read post]
27 May 2020, 6:30 am
Ilya Somin, Secession, Foot Voting, and Self-Determination 10. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 8:15 pm
Adler: 637 Ilya Somin: 595 David Bernstein: 480 Todd Zywicki: 387 Will Baude: 299 David Post: 250 Eugene Kontorovich: 227 While I have copied the Leiter-Sisk methodology as precisely as possible, there are likely some minor errors in these figures. [read post]
24 May 2011, 4:49 pm
Adler) Over on Cato@Liberty, Walter Olson joins the discussion on federalism and medical malpractice reform started by our own Randy Barnett and continued by Ilya Somin.Olson makes the important point that federalism is not about keeping as much authority as possible in state hands, nor does a commitment to federalism require leaving state courts alone across-the-board. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 4:07 pm
Originalists like Randy Barnett, Ilya Somin, Ilya Shapiro, Jack Balkin, and Evan Bernick all reject substantial deference when it comes to originalist approaches to constitutional interpretation.... [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 12:20 pm
(Ilya Somin) The editors of the Liberty Fund’s new Law and Liberty website recently asked me to write a short article on federalism and freedom commenting on the Supreme Court’s decision in Bond v. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 9:29 pm
(Ilya Somin) A recent effort to establish a scholarship for white males at Texas State University has predictably stirred controversy:According to the Austin American-Statesman, a “whites only” scholarship is being offered at Texas State University.The Former Majority Association for Equality — a nonprofit group — is offering five $1,000 scholarships exclusively to white male students....Student Colby Bohannan, the president of the group, said,… [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 2:39 pm
(Ilya Somin) Law professor David Pimentel has an interesting article detailing the ways in which law and social norms have evolved to the point where perfectly ordinary parenting practices can land you in prison or at least subject you to an expensive lawsuit or prolonged official harrasment [HT: Bryan Caplan and Katherine Mangu-Ward]. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 7:34 pm
(Ilya Somin) In light of Thursday’s decision upholding the individual mandate, then-Senator Barack Obama’s 2005 speech opposing John Roberts’ nomination to the Supreme Court seems ironically prescient: There is absolutely no doubt in my mind Judge Roberts is qualified to sit on the highest court in the land. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 2:06 pm
(Ilya Somin) When the revolution that eventually overthrew Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak began, I warned that the end result could easily be a government as bad or worse than Mubarak’s was. [read post]
13 Aug 2011, 7:45 am
(Ilya Somin) Today is the 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall. [read post]
2 Oct 2010, 11:58 am
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger Eugene Volokh gives some sensible reasons for why he chooses not to blog about some topics. [read post]
29 May 2012, 7:52 pm
(Ilya Somin) In his most recent article defending the constitutionality of the individual mandate, Jeffrey Rosen claims that “[judicial] restraint requires deference to all laws passed by Congress and the states, regardless of whether they’re favored by liberals or conservatives, unless they violate principles that can be so clearly located in constitutional text and history that people of all political persuasions can readily accept them. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 8:02 am
Ilya Somin, Steve Calabresi, Will Baude, and Michael McConnell (and see also Jonathan Adler's post citing Prof. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 3:25 pm
(Ilya Somin) Robert Heinlein is best known for being one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction and for his libertarian political views. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 10:39 pm
(Ilya Somin) In the recent Texas cheerleader case, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit not only rejected the cheerleader’s flimsy sexual harassment claim, but also rebuked her lawyers for their “unprofessional” attack on the competence of the federal magistrate judge who had made the initial lower court ruling on the case. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 3:24 pm
(Ilya Somin) On Sunday, LA Lakers forward Metta World Peace (formerly known as Ron Artest) viciously elbowed James Harden of the Oklahoma City Thunder. [read post]
