Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom

Earlier today, the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump on 37 counts related to his retention of classified documents after leaving office in January

  A few thoughts on yesterday's assassination attempt against Trump: 1. It should go without saying. But I condemn the attack. Violence is not the

The debate misses the point: Government officials can be impeached and removed for speech that is not criminal.

  On Friday, GOP Senator Ted Cruz blocked a bipartisan bill that would have granted political asylum to residents of Hong Kong fleeing China's

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently kicked off a controversy by saying that "No provision in the Constitution gives the authority to regulate the

And no, it’s not undemocratic to use the Fourteenth Amendment to keep him off the ballot.

In a case brought by the City of Philadelphia, the court struck down a Justice Department policy conditioning federal law enforcement grants on assisting federal immigration enforcement policy.

One of the most common justifications for immigration restrictions is the claim that letting in too many of the wrong type of immigrants would undermine

  Congressional Republicans are linking extension of US aid to Ukraine to the imposition of more restrictionist immigration policies. They claim the

  Today is the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, intended to keep Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020

Opening our doors would ease the suffering caused by Vladimir Putin’s invasion and strengthen our position against him.

How it happened and what (if anything) we can learn from such cases.

Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom

President Biden's new large-scale student loan forgiveness plan had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. That's because two separate federal

Disqualifying Trump from holding public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is an example of democracy-limiting measures that help preserve democracy.

  In 2019, then-President Donald Trump used a dubious emergency declaration to try to divert funds to build his border wall, despite the fact

  Today, the Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to be on the ballot for the 2024 presidential election because he is

Perhaps the best news since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic is that two highly effective vaccines are about to become available: one developed by

  Since the horrific October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, there has been much shock and dismay about Western far-left support for Hamas, and

Too many on the left and right agree that the government can use economic leverage to curb our rights.

  Yesterday, California enacted SB 1327, a gun control law deliberately modeled on Texas' SB 8 anti-abortion law. The purpose of both is to evade

  Ohio Senator J.D. Vance just became Donald Trump's running mate. If you care about free markets and liberty generally, he's just about the worst

  For many years, libertarian economists, housing experts, and legal scholars have been at the forefront of efforts to oppose exclusionary zoning.

A summary of the reasons why Trump lacks the power to use emergency powers to build his border wall, and why it would cause great harm and set a dangerous precedent if he did. Other than that, it's a...

In recent weeks, there has been a lot of media coverage of squatters' rights laws that sometimes have the effect of blocking property owners from removing

  Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While

The case of a woman who may be prosecuted for sheltering animals during Hurricane Florence highlights some reasons why it is often wrong to enforce the law.

President Trump has used his power to set tariffs to wage multiple trade wars that have already inflicted major costs on the American economy, and

Critics of originalism sometimes claim that originalists focus only on the original 1787 Constitution, while ignoring the Reconstruction amendments, which

A recent Harvard/Harris survey question indicating that 67% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 believe Jews "as a class" are "oppressors" has

            Millions of people around the world know the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence announcing that

In his recently published memoir, The Making of a Justice: My First Ninety Four Years, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens includes an

  Last week, a US federal district court ruled that a key element of Florida's recently enacted "Stop Woke Act" is unconstitutional, because it

  David Boaz passed away today. Liberty has lost one of its greatest and most principled advocates. As the Cato Institute's longtime longtime vice

  Trump v. United States, Monday's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, has many flaws. Others, beginning with

The newly elected President wants to fully open its borders to foreign airlines.

Over the last few months, leading Republicans - including most of the party's presidential candidates - have converged on the idea that we should turn the

  Today is the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul and the loss of Afghanistan to the oppressive Taliban regime. In the aftermath of the fall,

  A recent survey conducted on behalf of the Conference on Material Jewish Claims Against Germany has attracted widespread  attention, because it

Unlike virtually all modern independence movements, the Declaration of Independence sets out a case for secession based on universal human rights rather than ethnic, cultural, or religious identity.

    As Israel justifiably seeks to crush Hamas in the aftermath of the terrorist group's horrific attack on October 7, Palestinian civilians in

Today is Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the abolition of slavery in 1865 - established as an official federal holiday in 2021. You might think that

  The Republican governors of Arizona, Florida, and Texas have been busing recently arrived Latin American migrants to Democratic "sanctuary"

Lawfare and my Cato Institute colleague Walter Olson have recently posted valuable articles explaining the criminal charges filed against Trump for his

  July 4 is an appropriate time to remember Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" The speech is - for

Conservatives and libertarians need to reassess their priorities.

  I am pleased to have been able to join the Cato Institute's amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to consider Lech v. Jackson, a case in which the

Spoiler alert: probably not.

  NOTE: This post largely reprints last year's Victims of Communism Day post, with relatively minor modifications. Today is May Day. Since 2007, I

Nationalism has become a dominant ideology on the American political right and has gained ground in many European countries over the last decade. But this has happened without sufficient attention to...

Considerable amounts of Kremlin funds are frozen in Western nations, and the Biden administration is increasingly interested in using them to benefit Ukraine

  In addition to being the 80th anniversary of D-Day, today is the 45th anniversary of the Somin family's arrival in America! I wrote about our

Texas’s argument equating the two goes against the text and original meaning of the Constitution, and would set a dangerous precedent if courts accept it.

Today is May Day. Since 2007, I have advocated using this date as an international Victims of Communism Day. I outlined the rationale for this proposal

Yesterday, President Biden announced  new policies mandating vaccination for up to 100 million American workers of various types. Some parts of the policy

The court concluded that property may only be condemned for projects that will proceed in "the reasonably foreseeable future."

The President's recent threat to use "the military version of eminent domain" to seize property for his border wall is just the tip of a larger iceberg of policies and legal positions inimical to...

In recent days, some prominent Republicans have argued against impeachment on the ground that proceeding with it is likely to exacerbate national disunity

Nationalism has become a dominant ideology on the American political right and has gained ground in many European countries over the last decade. But this has happened without sufficient attention to...

The Chicago Tribune has an article describing how asylum-seeking migrants in the city are unable to support themselves, even as many employers in the city