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6 Jul 2010, 2:48 pm
(Ilya Somin) I’m not ready to say I want Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels to become the next president. [read post]
3 Sep 2011, 3:02 pm
(Ilya Somin) CNN has an interesting article about Abdul Hakeem Belhaj, a radical Islamist who is a prominent leader of the Libyan rebels whom the US and its allies have supported against Gaddafi. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 11:04 pm
(Ilya Somin) Today is May 1, May Day. [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 4:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) Today is Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 2:27 pm
(Ilya Somin) In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s controversial Kelo decision, which allowed the condemnation of private property for economic development, some 44 states have passed eminent domain reform laws. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 11:35 pm
(Ilya Somin) At the Weekly Standard blog, Cheryl Miller asks whether the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell will lead to the return of ROTC programs to elite university campuses [HT: here]. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 8:56 am
Ilya Somin of George Mason (not, certs, one of my ideological bedfellows), has some really good advice for law students. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 3:14 pm
(Ilya Somin) Like co-blogger Eugene Volokh, I read and liked Lev Grossman’s Magicians series. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 1:15 pm
(Ilya Somin) SCOTUSblog has just posted my contribution to their symposium on the individual mandate litigation. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 8:11 pm
(Ilya Somin) Economist Russ Roberts has a good column in today’s Wall Street Journal outlining the continuing relevance of F.A. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 2:11 pm
(Ilya Somin) In this recent post, political scientist Steven Teles argues that Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision to uphold the individual mandate was motivated by “statesmanship”: [M]y guess is that Roberts would have joined a decision more or less striking down the mandate but severing it from the rest of the law, but he couldn’t get the rest of the four justices to go along with him. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 5:04 am
As he does with every election, Ilya Somin reminded us about the problem of rational political ignorance. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 1:57 pm
(Ilya Somin) Temple law professor Peter Spiro has an interesting New York Times column arguing that supporters of immigration should not fear a Supreme Court decision upholding Arizona’s draconian anti-illegal immigrant law, because interjurisdictional competition is likely to take care of the problem. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 3:31 pm
(Ilya Somin) Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal is a highly respected liberal constitutional law scholar. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 8:25 am
Ilya Somin at VC has this post with links to varying reviews. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 7:00 am
(Ilya Somin) The Yes on 19 website has posted a petition by law professors in support of California proposition 19, which would decriminalize marijuana in that state. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 10:26 pm
(Ilya Somin) As co-blogger Jonathan Adler notes, Rick Santorum’s view of constitutional federalism is that the federal government can always override the states when the latter are doing something that is “wrong”: I’m a very strong supporter of the 10th amendment . . . but the idea that the only things that the states are prevented from doing are only things specifically established in the Constitution is wrong. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:27 pm
(Ilya Somin) A new Gallup poll shows that public support for legalizing the possession of marijuana has now hit a record-high 50%, up from 46% last year [HT: Tom Angell of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition]. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 11:30 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Red Sox and manager Terry Francona have decided to end their relationship in the wake of the teams’ painful September collapse. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 6:17 pm
(Ilya Somin) Last week, co-blogger Jonathan Adler noted the publication of a new edition of Huckleberry Finn that replaces all of the book’s many uses of the word “nigger” with “slave” in order to make it more palatable to modern teachers who want to assign the book to students. [read post]
