Fifth Amendment

SCOTUS: Unions Can’t Violate Property Rights

The Court struck down a California law permitting union organizers free access to farmers’ land.

The Fifth Amendment Matters After All

SCOTUS rules on an important case regarding property rights in the wake of Kelo.

Trash the Fifth Amendment Over Frogs?

The Supreme Court hears a case involving a ridiculous Obama-era power grab.

Reining in Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuse

Sessions insisted forfeiture is a “key tool” for enforcement. A constitutionally dubious money spigot for government is more like it.

Sessions Plans to Increase Civil Asset Forfeiture

The AG is a stand-up law-and-order guy, but this should sound alarms for people who fear the overreach of government power.

Flynn Pleads the Fifth

This isn’t an admission of guilt; it’s the realization that federal investigations tend to incriminate somebody.

No-Fly, No-Buy Doesn’t Fly

Another American wrongly on the list.

Democrats Stage a ‘Sit-In’ to Deny Civil Rights

The Second Amendment is the First Civil Right.

Real Fight for Gun Rights Will Be After the Election

The Senate voted down four gun measures.

A Missouri Town Demands Substantive Due Process

If Pagedale, Missouri, is a glimpse of the future, the future is going to be annoying. Pagedale might represent the future of governance unless some of its residents succeed in their lawsuit against their government. If they do, it will be because they successfully invoked the principle of substantive due process. Pagedale is 1.19 square miles of St. Louis County. Approximately 93 percent of its 3,000 residents are African-American and about 25 percent live below the poverty line. There is not much of a tax base for their government. But supposed necessity does not confer constitutionality on Pagedale’s decision to budget on the assumption of a steady blizzard of capricious fines.

The Need for Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform

The French philosopher Frederic Bastiat warned of “legal plunder.”

Desperate Los Angeles Bans ‘High Capacity’ Magazines

Botched Execution Sparks Clash Over Death Penalty

We need some perspective on the death of a murderer.

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