Tag libertarianism

Race Is No Excuse for Violence or Impunity

Public arguments about crime and justice have drifted into territory that should be straightforward: intentionally attacking people with a knife is wrong, and a lack of remorse after harming others is morally repugnant. Those judgments do not change based on the attacker’s race, the victim’s race, or the politics of the moment.

Supreme Court Rejects Judge-Made Causes of Action and Treating Legislative History as Binding Law

The Supreme Court has once again emphasized a basic constitutional boundary: federal courts are not supposed to create new avenues for private lawsuits simply because a statute is important or a policy goal seems worthwhile. The dispute arose from a case centered on a threshold question that often determines everything else—who, if anyone, is entitled to sue to enforce federal law in the first place.

Democrats Keep Misrepresenting Citizens United—and Regulation of Speech Won’t Stay on Their Side

More than a decade after the Supreme Court decided Citizens United, the case is still routinely described in a way that doesn’t match what the ruling actually did. In today’s political arguments, it is often treated as a convenient villain for everything people dislike about campaign politics, even when the facts and legal limits of the decision say otherwise.

GOP’s Next Youth-Focused Culture Fight Is Likely to Fail

Republicans appear to be gearing up for another political campaign that is designed to resonate with younger voters inside the party. The effort is being framed as a new front in the broader struggle over culture, identity, and institutional influence, with an emphasis on what party leaders and aligned organizations believe the next generation should prioritize.