Civil Liberties

By upholding the gatekeeping responsibility of judges under Rule 702, the Second Circuit can reaffirm that scientific claims must meet established thresholds before being presented as reliable proof in court.

Rule 702 requires judges to ensure that expert testimony presented to juries is grounded in sufficient data, reliable methodology, and a sound application of those methods to the facts of the case. In other words, courts must act as gatekeepers to prevent speculative or methodologically unsound scientific claims from being treated as fact.

Dallas--The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) is pleased that the Supreme Court has correctly decided that President Trump improperly used the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose harmful, capricious, sometimes malicious and often incoherent tariffs on goods purchased by American businesses and consumers. And we await the comedy of a response from the Trump administration.

How about we repeal the 17^thAmendment along with the filibuster?

Wednesday, November 5, the Supreme Court will hear one of the most important cases involving limited government in our lifetimes. Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump is about whether a president has authority under the Constitution or statute to impose tariffs in the way the Trump administration has.

Encryption is not just a technical layer of protection—it is a shield for individual liberty, economic growth, and national security in the digital age.

To his great credit, Donald Trump has appointed a lot of very good judges, and very good judges follow the law, the Constitution, and the limits of legislation. 

But the Trump administration will win some and will lose some. When they lose, it won’t be a “judicial insurrection.” Republicans should be very careful about joining Democrats in undermining faith in our judicial system. And Stephen Miller probably needs to go on blood pressure medicine.

There is something very wrong with FCC Chairman Carr using government power to pressure companies into appeasing the Trump administration.

The concept of hate speech is harmful because it is open to capricious definition and application. Conservatives and libertarians rightly reject it.

President Trump’s DOJ has continued that lawsuit, and he recently called for action by the DOJ and FTC to develop a better ticketing experience – gathering thousands of responses from the public and interested organizations to a request for feedback on the problems in the industry today.