Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Biden Administration’s Use of The Autopen To Appoint Federal Judges Investigated by GOP

September 22, 2025 11:43 amSeptember 22, 2025 12:32 pm

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is overseeing the investigation of the Biden administration’s expansive use of the autopen for presidential pardons, executive orders and nominees, specifically those confirmed by the U.S. Senate for lifetime federal judges. Despite former...

Supreme Court Poised to Allow No-Camping Laws, but Will Liberal Cities Enforce Them?

April 29, 2024 11:19 amApril 29, 2024 11:20 am

California and other west coast states have experienced a homeless explosion over the past decade. It’s primarily attributable to one thing: Cities stopped enforcing laws prohibiting overnight camping. This was in response to a Ninth Circuit ruling which found such...

The Courts and Homelessness: City Anti-Camping Ordinance Goes Before the Supremes

April 22, 2024 3:57 pmApril 22, 2024 4:15 pm

When discussing homelessness, California state and local officials often point to a federal court ruling they say ties their hands completely when it comes to dealing with the problem. But it appears, from the tenor of the oral arguments today...

Regulation, Censorship, and the Will to Power

March 27, 2024 3:47 pmMarch 28, 2024 3:52 pm

The will to power manifests itself in myriad ways. It can come from the the point of a pen or the point of a sword, from a ballot box to an ammo box, it can come from rules, regulations, and...

Deference Deterrence: Will U.S. Supreme Court Let the Bureaucrats Keep Running Wild?

January 17, 2024 5:03 pmJanuary 17, 2024 9:06 pm

There is a legal thing called “Chevron deference” and it has encouraged the massive growth of the power and scope of the bureaucratic state over the past 40 years. Named after a 1984 legal case, the doctrine holds (in a...