Author Archive | David Kopel
Bleg on First Amendment offensive speech
Attorney General Holder grants BATFE expanded forfeiture powers
The Ruby Ridge murders, 20 years later
By David Kopel on August 22, 2012 11:48 pm in Criminal Law, Executive Branch, Growth of Government, Guns, Self-Defense, Targeted Killing, War on Drugs
“Beer + Pizza = Success.” The key formula for law students.
Amicus brief in Woollard v. Gallagher, Maryland right to bear arms case
What Judge Reinhardt missed
Arms Trade Treaty conference ends without agreement
By David Kopel on July 27, 2012 5:47 pm in Genocide, Global Governance/World Government, Guns, International Human Rights Law, International Law
Colorado Consensus on Gun Laws
Don’t turn Aurora killer into celebrity
The Bar Review version of NFIB v. Sebelius
By David Kopel on July 10, 2012 2:52 pm in Commerce Clause, Constitutional Law, Individual Mandate, Originalism, Supreme Court, Taxing and Spending Clause
Chief Justice Roberts and the window tax
By David Kopel on July 9, 2012 2:27 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Health Care, Individual Mandate, Originalism, Taxes, Taxing and Spending Clause
Next step: Repeal the individual mandate because it is unconstitutional
By David Kopel on June 29, 2012 7:30 pm in Congress, Constitutional History, Equal Protection, Health Care, Individual Mandate, Necessary and Proper, Politics, Popular Constitutionalism, Presidency, Separation of Powers, Supreme Court, Taxes, Taxing and Spending Clause, Uncategorized
Is the individual mandate a “tax” according to the original meaning?
By David Kopel on June 29, 2012 6:30 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Individual Mandate, Originalism, Supreme Court, Taxing and Spending Clause
NFIB as Marbury
By David Kopel on June 29, 2012 6:25 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Federalism, Individual Mandate, Politics, Spending Clause, Supreme Court, Taxing and Spending Clause, Unconstitutional Conditions