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From the Cheap Seats: Liberating Local Government

July 8, 2024 6:32 amJuly 8, 2024 10:19 am

A recent decision of the United States Supreme Court has important implications for localities in California trying to address the problem of homelessness. With a 6-3 majority in the case of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson the high court...

Homeless Account for 12% of Fire Calls in Los Angeles

July 2, 2024 10:00 amJuly 2, 2024 10:01 am

In a typical day in the city of Los Angeles, the fire department will go on about 1,500 calls for service. That’s fires, medical issues, cats in trees and everything else. Also on a typical day, the city’s homeless population...

Supremes Kneecap Administrative State

June 28, 2024 1:40 pmJune 28, 2024 1:40 pm

The United States Supreme Court today threw out 40 years of precedent and overturned the principle of Chevron deference, blowing a huge hole in the power of the administrative state. In a 6 to 3 ruling (Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and...

Supremely Wrong: Court Ruling on Murthy Misses Point Entirely

June 26, 2024 1:54 pmJune 26, 2024 1:54 pm

The United States Supreme Court ruled today, in a 6 to 3 decision, that the plaintiffs in the most important free speech case in decades did not have standing to ask for preliminary injunctive relief. That is wrong. In her...

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...

Don’t Be Evil: Really, Google, This Time Don’t

April 14, 2024 2:30 amApril 14, 2024 2:31 am

Three little words: Don’t Be Evil. But just as “I Love You” can curdle into undying antipathy, Google’s very former motto has become the perfect oppositional descriptor for pretty much everything it now does. From black Nazis to spying on...

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...