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Swift condemnation for Boulder climate lawsuit and DC think tank 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
- April 27, 2018
“That was fast,” writes Energy in Depth’s Rebecca Simon regarding how quickly leading Coloradans and others denounced the city of Boulder and its “especially unfortunate” climate change lawsuit against the oil and gas industry. Her excellent summary includes commentary from the Denver Post, former Attorney General and Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, former head of
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A Summary of How States Push Back Against Washington 0
- Article V, CONSTITUTION
- December 28, 2013
The Cato Institute has published a new paper by Professor John Dinan that summarizes all the credible ways in which the states can and do push back against Washington, D.C. The only omission to this excellent summary is the states’ amendment powers under the Constitution’s Article V. (Although the states have never forced Congress to
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Cato Brief in McDonald v. Chicago 0
- Supreme Court
- November 23, 2009
Originally published on Volokh.com Available here. An outstanding brief, as one might expect. The bulk of the brief (21 pages, comprising Part I) shows that from the Founding Era into through the framing of the Fourteenth Amendment, national citizenship was paramount to state citizenship. Part II briefly argues that Slaughterhouse violated canons of constitutional construction–such as
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