If we don’t have open and honest elections, control of our borders, and equality before the law, then we don’t have the conditions for politics or free government.
Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization
Who Is in Control? The Need to Rein in Big Tech
If Big Tech’s capabilities are allowed to develop unchecked and unregulated, these companies will eventually have the power not only to suppress existing political movements, but to anticipate and prevent the emergence of new ones. This would mean the end of democracy as we know it and place us under the thumb of an unaccountable oligarchy.
The Roots of Our Partisan Divide
More and more areas of American life have been withdrawn from voters’ democratic control and delivered up to the bureaucratic and judicial emergency mechanisms of civil rights law. Civil rights law has become a second constitution, with powers that can be used to override the Constitution of 1787.
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution
While the hallowed doctrine of stare decisis—the rule that judges are bound to respect precedent—certainly applies to the lower courts, Supreme Court justices owe fidelity to the Constitution alone, and if their predecessors have construed it erroneously, today’s justices must say so and overturn their decisions.
Should We Regulate Big Tech?
Economists since Adam Smith have taught us that in a competitive economy, the pursuit of private interests leads to the best possible outcome for everybody. But notice the qualifier: for this arrangement to work, there must be competition.
The Next Supreme Court Justice
In thinking about the kind of person who should take his seat on the Court, it is worth reflecting on Justice Scalia’s principles of jurisprudence.
Justice and the Obama Justice Department
The Justice Department plays a fundamental role in our nation’s life, because its work has to do with how honest, how fair, and how safe our country is.
Race Relations and Law Enforcement
The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January 30, 2015, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series by Jason L. Riley. The History and Danger of Administrative Law
The question I will address here is whether administrative law is unlawful, and I will focus on constitutional history. The Presidency and the Constitution
The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government.