The FTC Risks Chilling Speech With Its Advertising Boycott Investigation The FTC’s investigation into advocacy groups like Media Matters and advertisers is an indefensible assault on the First Amendment. Reason · Jun 12, 2025
This Student Was Allegedly Suspended for Saying 'Illegal Aliens.' Did That Violate the First Amendment? Christian McGhee is suing, arguing a North Carolina assistant principal infringed on his free speech rights. Reason · May 7, 2024
Trump v. Anderson, Professor Akhil Reed Amar, and the Constitutionality of the Presidential Succession Act Professor Amar's argument renders the presidential succession acts of 1792 and 1947 unconstitutional by barring putting the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Temper of the Senate in the line of succession to the presidency Reason · Feb 8, 2024
Section Three and the "First Insurrection" … That Wasn't [Prof. Kurt Lash (Richmond), who is a leading legal historian of the Fourteenth Amendment, was kind enough to pass along this response to an amicus brief by Profs. Akhil Reed Amar (Yale) and Vikram David Amar (Illinois) in Trump v. Anderson, and I'm delighted to have it published here. As… Reason · Jan 29, 2024
The Amar Brief in Moore Should Not Be Embraced: Part 2 Oral Argument in Moore v. United States will be held on Tuesday. Must taxes on unrealized gains (crucial for a future wealth tax) be apportioned equally among the states? Reason · Dec 3, 2023
Calabresi: The Amar Brief in Moore v. United States Should Not be Embraced Is a Federal Wealth Tax a Direct Tax? Steven Calabresi Responds to the Amar Amicus Brief in Moore. Reason · Nov 16, 2023
A controversial election theory at the Supreme Court is tied to a disputed document The reliability of a document by one of the U.S. Constitution's framers has long been under serious doubt. North Carolina Republicans cited it in a case that could upend election laws. WEKU · Nov 3, 2022