Law

The following post is by Hans Bader and first appeared here: https://libertyunyielding.com/2022/01/22/safe-streets-worker-police-replacement-shot-to-death-in-baltimore/ Supporters of abolishing the police say they can be replaced by unarmed “community safety” workers. Instead of arresting or...

If the astonishing spike in violent crime over the past two years has gotten your attention, I suspect the recent memo issued by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has too. ...

Today, I welcome Kursat Christoff Pekgoz as my guest blogger. There seems to exist a widespread, almost caricatural belief among Anglo-American conservatives that the European Union is a bastion of...

 It’s not easy to predict what the U.S. Supreme Court will decide in any particular case.  Scholars study individual justices long and hard and are still surprised at their decisions. ...

Just last week I posted a piece whose thesis was that, contrary to the beliefs of elites over the millennia, non-elites often behave more responsibly than those who appoint themselves...

Latest Indictment from Clinton 2016 Dirty Tricks Campaign Last month, Special Counsel John Durham announced the indictment of attorney Michael Sussman, a prominent partner in the 1,200-attorney DC law firm...

As I showed last time, cancel culture is about the exercise of power, not about molding behavior to fit clearly articulated norms.  That exercise often targets woke individuals who find...

When, almost a year ago, Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter, I figured that there was essentially no chance that he would be acquitted. That was...