You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that Mueller’s investigation flouts them.
Category Archives: Law
Adulthood
I agree with Glenn, just make it eighteen, period. The health-insurance issue is particularly absurd. Just nutty.
[Evening update]
Sorry, bad link fixed.
Talk About Friday News Dump
McCabe was fired by the FBI, and will lose his pension. It’s pretty clear now that his “retirement” was an attempt to outrun his perfidy.
Fox News had been predicting this. In my opinion, he (and others in this now greatest political scandal in American history, if the Democrat operatives in the media would actually report it properly) should be worried bout a lot more than losing pensions…
[Saturday-morning update]
The reckoning of the FBI has begun.
It’s long overdue. The rot goes back to the first Clinton administration, if not all the way back to Hoover himself.
Planetary Protection
…is not required by Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty. I suspect a lot of people at COPUOS would disagree.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, bad link fixed.
Local Governments
Can they have greater autonomy from the states?
[Tuesday-morning update]
Related: Could #Resistance in California result in federal troops being sent there? It would be pretty amusing if they use this as an excuse to recognize a new legislature in the hinterlands.
The New Challenge To ObamaCare
Will John Roberts get a do-over?
…it is significant that both Ilya and Josh agree that the insurance “requirement” is now clearly unconstitutional under Chief Justice Roberts’ “saving construction” approach. If a court so holds, the entire statute would then be in the same posture as it would have been if he had sided with the dissenting justices in the first place. In that eventuality, four justices thought the whole law was inseverable, and the Obama administration conceded the mandate would be inseverable from at least two key provisions of the Act. So the key issue in the new litigation is likely to be whether the fact that Congress zeroed out the penalty somehow changed this analysis such that the mandate is now severable from the rest of the ACA when it was not before. I look forward to reading much more on this question.
This would be great, if this legislative atrocity can finally be struck down via this method, considering all of the legislative legerdemain and chicanery the Democrats had to use to pass it in the first place.
Suiculturicide
I think that’s the word that Stephen Green is looking for.
America’s Steel Superiority
This reminds me of my piece on how the auto industry did the same thing to itself. Once it had done so, it was easy for foreigners to compete, with or without subsidies.
Health Advocates
Are they finally wising up to risk?
If so, it probably won’t last long, based on history.
New California
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on California’s seceding from the coastal fascists. I don’t understand why the silly-looking gerrymander to keep Sacramento with the coastal “elites.” Set up a new state capital in San Jose or LA, and let the real California keep the delta.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems sort of related: How the big tech companies went from “Don’t be evil” to doing evil.
[Update a while later]
Steven Kruiser: “Dear California, call me when the commies leave.” I love this state, have for half a century, but I hate its voters.