I’ve been doing a regular weekly podcast with Michael Vatis and Jason Weinstein, two of my partners who share an interest in security, privacy, and technology, as well as a background in government. More recently, we’ve started inviting newsmakers to join us for a half-hour interview. Earlier this week, I interviewed Chris Inglis, the recently […]
"Virginia Attorney General abandons natural marriage," reads a Liberty Counsel press release. "Marriage was not created by religion or government and is ontologically a union of one man and one woman."
A link to my new law review article.
I’ve now had a chance to look at the report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on section 215 and the telephone metadata program. What a disappointment. The PCLOB declares by a bare majority that the program is unlawful and should be shut down. The report’s 45-page (!) statutory analysis reads like an […]
The error in the Human Rights Campaign's condemnation of the lawyer handling Utah's defense of opposite-sex-only marriage rules.
On Wednesday, Judge Frederick Weisberg handed climate scientist Michael Mann a potentially significant victory in his defamation suit against Mark Steyn, National Review, Rand Simberg, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. In a relatively brief order, Judge Weisberg denied the defendants’ motions to dismiss and lifted the stay on discovery in the suit. He explained: Opinions and rhetorical […]
Originalists don't agree on when to extend a precedent or when to limit it. But that's okay. Originalism is a big tent.
To get a sense of why some people worry -- and rightly so, I think -- about the use of foreign law in American constitutional decisionmaking, consider this passage from Professor Peter J. Spiro’s Treaties, International Law, and Constitutional Rights. Professor Spiro is a supporter of the greater use of international law in the American legal system, and here’s what he writes.
There’s a movement afoot — mostly from my side of the political aisle — opposing the use of foreign law in American courts. Oklahoma, for instance, enacted an unusually broad ban on such use of foreign law. This ban was later struck down by a federal court on the grounds that part of the ban […]
Mobile, connected, supplied, and independent. Can robotics and automation supply these for aging Baby Boomers, and are they Google's self-driving cars, Apple's iPhones, Amazon's home delivery, and yet-to-emerge assistive elder-care robots? Maybe tech companies' business models are mostly about ... old people.
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