http://www.catocampus.org/tag info@catocampus.org http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Robert A. Levy and David Kopel: "The Supreme Court ruled in June that provisions of Washington, D.C.'s gun laws are unconstitutional. Unfortunately, the city has responded with new regulations that are a flagrant attempt to circumvent the court's decision." 911@http://www.catocampus.org Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:36:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Robert A. Levy: "Following a victory that some thought impossible, the advocates of the right to bear arms are asking themselves where to go next. None are more qualified to answer that question than Robert A. Levy, co-counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark case that has permanently changed the shape of gun rights jurisprudence." - Dr. Jason Kuznicki 894@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:02:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html Alan Gura, Glenn Reynolds, Randy Barnett, Brian Doherty, Sanford Levinson, Jacob Sullum, and Dave Kopel respond to D.C. v. Heller 886@http://www.catocampus.org Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:23:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html "On Thursday, the Court rediscovered the Second Amendment. More than five years after six Washington, D.C. residents challenged the city’s 32-year-old ban on all functional firearms in the home, the Court held in District of Columbia v. Heller that the law is unconstitutional. Heller is merely the opening salvo in a series of litigations that will ultimately resolve what weapons and persons can be regulated and what restrictions are permissible. But because of Thursday’s decision, the prospects for reviving the original meaning of the Second Amendment are now substantially brighter." - Robert A. Levy, Co-counsel to Mr. Heller 885@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Roger Pilon: "When the Supreme Court affirms a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, that's news, especially when nearly every other circuit has gone the other way. That's what happened last week in Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture. Unfortunately, the news would be better had the 9th Circuit gotten it right." 879@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:05:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Matthew Blake: "Little about Real ID has gone as planned. All 50 states, and the District of Columbia, were given extensions by the Dept. of Homeland Security to comply with Real ID. This extension was given despite the fact that 17 states passed resolutions saying they have no intention of ever implementing the program." 859@http://www.catocampus.org Mon, 12 May 2008 16:11:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By David T. Beito and Ilya Somin: "Few policies have done more to destroy community and opportunity for minorities than eminent domain. Some 3 to 4 million Americans, most of them ethnic minorities, have been forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of urban renewal takings since World War II." 852@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 01 May 2008 14:06:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Robert A. Levy: "The owner of the property should be able to determine — for good reasons, bad reasons, or no reason at all — whether to admit gun owners, non-gun owners, neither or both. Customers, employees and guests who object may go elsewhere. That's the controlling principle." 845@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:03:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Julian Sanchez: "The plan had been to celebrate the birth of the author of the Declaration of Independence by congregating, flashmob style, for ten minutes of quiet iPod-fueled dancing, then repair to a pub nearby. Instead, park police brought the party to an abrupt halt, arresting 28-year-old Brooke Oberwetter and leading her away in handcuffs, while chasing the rest of the group off." 837@http://www.catocampus.org Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:19:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Julian Sanchez: " The terrorist attack had been as devastating as it was unexpected. Convinced that better intelligence was the key to preventing fresh attacks, the president resolved to seek legislation granting the executive branch broad new wiretapping powers. But he had a problem: The opposition party, which controlled Congress, was equally determined to block provisions that they saw as an affront to privacy." 822@http://www.catocampus.org Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:50:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Alan Gura and Robert A. Levy: "Imagine a right — intended, in part, as a deterrent to oppressive government — that can be exercised only when, where, and in the manner that government directs. " 815@http://www.catocampus.org Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:54:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Timothy B. Lee and Gene Healy: "Modern computer technology makes the potential for the abuse of unfettered executive power much greater today. Judicial oversight is at least as important in the 21st century as it was in the 20th, and Congress should resist Bush's demand for unchecked spying powers." 793@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:55:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Edward H. Crane and Robert A. Levy: "For many years, we were at risk of losing important civil liberties through unchecked transgressions by the executive branch. Maybe we are still at risk. But thanks to the media, the courts and — belatedly — an energized opposition in Congress, the administration has finally resigned itself to a semblance of congressional oversight, even if judicial scrutiny remains inadequate." 789@http://www.catocampus.org Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:24:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Timothy B. Lee: "In his State of the Union address, President Bush pressed Congress to quickly pass legislation to make permanent the sweeping spying powers that Congress granted last August. Those powers, which include the ability to eavesdrop on foreign-to-domestic communications without meaningful judicial oversight, were due to expire last week. Congress has passed a two-week extension of the law, but that barely gives Congress time to catch its breath before the White House resumes its campaign to make it permanent." 780@http://www.catocampus.org Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:04:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Jacob Sullum: "Last August, panicked at the prospect of an imminent terrorist attack that could be averted only by granting the executive branch new surveillance powers, Congress passed the Protect America Act. With the law scheduled to expire this month, the Bush administration is trying to scare Congress into making the powers permanent." 775@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:24:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Michael C. Moynihan: "According to a dossier compiled by FIRE, incoming freshman were required to undergo "treatment" (the university's word) by residence hall apparatchiks, and forced "to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism." These young scholar-scamps in Wilmington are told solemnly that they are, according to the precepts of the university, carriers of racist original sin: '[A] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.'" 732@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:02:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By David Nather: "For the past seven years, George W. Bush has expanded presidential power in ways that no one could have predicted when he took office. He and Vice President Dick Cheney have worn their independence — from oversight by either lawmakers or judges — as a badge of honor, necessary to keep the nation safe from another terrorist attack and restore what they have regarded as a weakened presidency. But the cost has been a poisonous friction with Congress and a growing public perception that they simply weren’t interested in checks and balances." 730@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:54:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Julian Sanchez: "No American would accept the proposition that one of our citizens, having been cleared of wrongdoing by American courts, could be abducted by a foreign power and imprisoned for years, only to have his fate determined by a kangaroo court that flouted the most elementary procedural rights. The Supreme Court should not accept it from our government either." 726@http://www.catocampus.org Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:10:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Tim Lynch: "Since today is Bill of Rights Day, it seems like an appropriate time to pause and consider the condition of the safeguards set forth in our fundamental legal charter." 723@http://www.catocampus.org Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:24:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html With Brandon Arnold: "Cheers! Today is the 74th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. On December 5, 1933, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment, thereby repealing the 18th Amendment and ending our 13 years as a dry nation." 701@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Adam Liptak: "Robert A. Levy, a rich libertarian lawyer who has never owned a gun, helped create and single-handedly financed the case that may finally resolve the meaning of the Second Amendment." 696@http://www.catocampus.org Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:33:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html With Robert A. Levy: "For the first time in nearly 70 years, the Supreme Court has agreed to examine the meaning of the Second Amendment. That's good news for all Americans who would like to be able to defend themselves where they live and sleep. And it's especially good news for residents of Washington, D.C., which has been the murder capital of the nation despite an outright ban on all functional firearms since 1976." 683@http://www.catocampus.org Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:15:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html Reason.tv host Drew Carey visits National City, California, where the local government is taking eminent domain abuse to new lows. 681@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:16:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html By Robert A. Levy: "Later this month, the Supreme Court will decide whether to review the circuit court's blockbuster opinion in Parker vs. District of Columbia, the first federal appellate opinion to overturn a gun control law on the ground that the 2nd Amendment protects the rights of individuals." 680@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:09:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/541.html With Randy Barnett: "The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original Constitution and its amendments to eliminate the parts that protect liberty from the power of government." 567@http://www.catocampus.org Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:43:00 EDT