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6 Oct 2010, 4:41 pm
(Ilya Somin) In his most recent post in our debate over the Necessary and Proper Clause, Orin argues that Supreme Court precedent has resolved the issue of what counts as “proper” as well as what is “necessary. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 7:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) In his dissent in McDonald, signed by three liberal justices, Justice Breyer argues that gun rights deserve little or no judicial protection at least in part because they put lives at risk: Unlike other forms of substantive liberty, the carrying of arms for that purpose [self-defense] often puts others’ lives at risk.... [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 11:04 am
(Ilya Somin) In this recent CNN column, Philippe Legrain explains the injustice of many current immigration restrictions: It is no longer acceptable to discriminate against people on the basis of a whole range of characteristics that they happen to be born with, notably their gender, their race and their sexuality. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 2:23 pm
(Ilya Somin) A Recent Pew Research Center survey of American’s knowledge about religion shows widespread ignorance. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 1:00 pm
(Ilya Somin) Some commentators are associating the Oklahoma City bombings of 15 years ago and other far right violence with the rise of “anti-government” sentiment in opposition to the Obama health care bill and other recent expansions of federal spending and regulation. [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 9:27 pm
(Ilya Somin) The European Union has been one of the most interesting experiments in federalism of the post-World War II era. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 10:38 pm
(Ilya Somin) AP writer Beth Harpaz worries that we are raising “a generation of nincompoops” because modern technology has obviated the need for kids to learn basic mechanical skills: Are we raising a generation of nincompoops? [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 6:33 am
(Ilya Somin) I should have gotten around to this when it happened. [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 8:18 pm
(Ilya Somin) I don’t have any brilliant suggestions for how President Obama should handle the situation in Egypt. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 2:17 pm
(Ilya Somin) Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, a leading constitutional law and international law scholar, has an article in Slate defending the constitutionality of President Obama’s use of force against Libya without congressional authorization.I am a big fan of Goldsmith and his academic work. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 12:47 pm
(Ilya Somin) Much literal and blogospheric ink has already been spilled over the question of whether the Court’s conclusion that the Commerce Clause does not authorize the individual mandate is part of the holding or mere dictum. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 3:42 am
At Reason’s Volokh Conspiracy blog, Ilya Somin finds it “unfortunate” that the decision was “a close 5-4 ruling, split along ideological lines with the five conservative justices in the majority, and the four liberals all dissenting,” because “[s]triking down blatant government discrimination on the basis of religion should not be so controversial and divisive. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 4:07 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Supreme Court has now incorporated the Second Amendment against the states. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 9:35 pm
(Ilya Somin) Cato Unbound has an excellent symposium on “libertarian paternalism,” the theory that argues that government should intervene to protect people against cognitive biases that lead them to make decisions that ultimately reduce their ability to achieve their own objectives. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 10:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Gonzales v. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 9:28 pm
(Ilya Somin) Martin Wolf, a prominent British economics journalist, has an interesting blog post criticizing libertarianism. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 4:02 pm
(Ilya Somin) The massive destruction and tragic loss of life in the recent earthquake in Japan will surely rekindle debates over how well democratic governments handle natural disaster. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 7:51 pm
(Ilya Somin) New York Times reporter Adam Liptak recently published an interesting article on the controversy over whether the Roberts Court is “pro-business. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 12:59 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, retired Justice John Paul Stevens defended his controversial majority opinion in Kelo v. [read post]
29 May 2012, 2:44 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent response to critics of his earlier column on the individual mandate case, Jeffrey Rosen claims that upholding the individual mandate would not lead to unlimited congressional power because “Congress [still] cannot use its commerce power to regulate activity that has no substantial effects on interstate commerce and where there are no collective action problems that make it impossible for the states to act on their own. [read post]
