The Battle Cry of Freedom
(David Kopel) Click here to view the embedded video. A wonderful song at all times, and especially around Independence Day, especially this year. “The Battle Cry of Freedom” was written during the...
View ArticleThe Right to Earn a Living – Video & Podcast
Tim Sandefur, Principal Attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation and Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute, dropped by our offices last week for a iVoices.org podcast with fellow Hillsdale alum Ben...
View ArticleRepublican presidential candidates pledge to appoint judges to overturn the...
(David Kopel) At CNN, Politico, National Review Online’s “The Corner” blog, and at the Susan B. Anthony List website, you can read the developing controversy over some Republican presidential...
View ArticleNatelson on the 14th Amendment and the debt ceiling
(David Kopel) In this iVoices.org podcast, Rob Natelson explains why unilateral presidential creation of new debt is: 1. Utterly contrary to the Constitution’s structure of limiting executive power. 2....
View ArticleCongressional hearing on interstate handgun carry reciprocity
On Tuesday I testified before the U.S. House subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, regarding H.R. 822, which would set up a national system of interstate reciprocity for concealed...
View ArticleKopel on State Reciprocity and the Second Amendment
Concealed carry is a hot topic in Congress now with a bill coming out of the House called the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011 (H.R. 822). This bill would extend conceal carry rights...
View ArticleHouse passes interstate handgun carry reciprocity
By a vote of 272 to 154. (The vote on the motion to recommit was 161 to 263). On the final vote, 44 Democrats voted in favor, and 7 Republicans voted against. H.R. 822 now goes to the Senate. In the...
View ArticleThe original meaning of the 14th Amendment regarding interracial marriage
Over at Balkinization, Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern) has an interesting and thoughtful post on the state of originalism. Synthesizing analysis by Jamal Greene and Jack Balkin, Koppelman writes,...
View ArticleThe Great Gun Control War of the 20th Century — And its Lessons for Gun Laws...
This is the subject of my article in a forthcoming symposium issue of the Fordham Urban Law Journal. The article details the political, cultural, social, and legal battles over gun control from the...
View ArticleWant to Help Secure Colorado’s Gun Rights? Donate to Our Legal Effort!
As many of you have heard, we are mounting a legal challenge to the new gun controls signed into law yesterday. Our lawsuit will be based on the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States...
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