Tag: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
The Courts and Homelessness: City Anti-Camping Ordinance Goes Before the Supremes
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
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?
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...