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  • September/October 2013
    Policy Report
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    What If Money Were Private?
    … the Cato Institute…now part of the Huffington Post, he has written about criminal-justice policy, with a focus on police abuses.” “There is no vital trend in American society more over- looked than the militarization of our domestic police …
  • March 19, 2018
    Blog
    Wyden’s FOSTA Fix
    Wyden’s FOSTA Fix
    … holds hosts of user‐​generated content liable for “knowingly assisting, supporting, or facilitating” prostitution or the promotion thereof. Attempts to police illegal content posted on a platform could render moderators aware of its existence. If they do not eliminate all …
    By John Samples
  • March 19, 2018
    Blog
    Wyden’s FOSTA Fix
    Wyden’s FOSTA Fix
    … holds hosts of user‐​generated content liable for “knowingly assisting, supporting, or facilitating” prostitution or the promotion thereof. Attempts to police illegal content posted on a platform could render moderators aware of its existence. If they do not eliminate all …
    By John Samples
  • August 31, 2017
    USA Today
    Trump’s Decision on Military-Style Weapons Will Harm Communities
    … and camouflage uniforms. Militarized law enforcement came under intense scrutiny in 2014 after Missouri teen Michael Brown was killed by police officer Darren Wilson. Police met protesters with tanks, tear gas and military‐​grade weapons, escalating an already tense situation …
    By Adam Bates
  • March 12, 2007
    Blog
    FBI and Patriot Act
    … people would taunt civil liberties advocates with the line: “Where are the abuses?” We would patiently explain that the new police “tools” (euphemism for powers) were executed in secret. The pols would usually just repeat their mantra in a louder …
    By Tim Lynch
  • October 7, 2021
    Books
    Cato Supreme Court Review: 2020-2021
    Cato Supreme Court Review: 2020-2021
    … off-campus speech (Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.), union access onto agribusiness land (Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid), police acting as “community caretakers” and warrantless police entries (Caniglia v. Strom), and Arizona’s new voting laws (Brnovich v …
    By Trevor Burrus
  • May 27, 2022
    Blog
    Cannabis Banking: A Clash Between Federal and State Laws
    … institutions because it remains illegal at the federal level. The cannabis industry might look like just another business for local police, where legal, but the DEA and other federal agencies have a different outlook. As a result, most of the …
    By Jeffrey Miron and Nicholas Anthony
  • September 12, 2011
    DC Examiner
    Let’s Look at Romneycare
    … Obamacare. The best he can say is that his program was constitutional, since states, unlike Washington, possess the so‐​called “police power,” allowing them to regulate most anything. Alas, even the former governor’s constitutional scruples are suspect. In 1994 …
    By Doug Bandow
  • October 14, 2009
    Blog
    Do We Need a Law against Texting While Driving?
    … law bans texting while driving but allows for reading texts, for precisely the reasons just mentioned. But how can a police officer positioned at the side of a highway tell if the driver of the car that just flew by …
    By Tim Lynch
  • September 16, 2009
    Washington Times
    The Sensational Giles and O’Keefe
    … Reform Now) has been doing just that. Who exposed this latest bit of corruption at ACORN? — The FBI? The local police? A congressional investigating committee? The mainstream media? No, no, no, no. It was a 20‐​year‐​old‐​girl named …
    By Richard W. Rahn
  • August 17, 2006
    Blog
    Last Hope for Fourth Amendment Hangs by a Thread; Weekly Standard Rejoices
    … police excess: In pointing out how dated the exclusionary rule has become, Justice Scalia noted both the “increasing professionalism of police forces” and the ease with which aggrieved citizens can now pursue other remedies against the police for the violation …
    By Radley Balko
  • May 27, 2004
    Cato.org
    When Clients Refuse to Stay Bought
    … and recently considered turning control of the interim government over to him. But last week U.S. troops and Iraqi police raided his home and office looking for evidence of wrongdoing. If the war and occupation belong to anyone, it …
    By Doug Bandow
  • September 14, 1987
    The Wall Street Journal
    Bork as Battleground on the Right — The Soul of a Congressman
    The framers designed a Supreme Court with an eye toward protecting their hard-won liberties. The justices who sit on that court should be committed to the full exercise of its role in the system of checks and balances envisioned by the framers.
    By Edward H. Crane
  • November 13, 2019
    Blog
    A Looming Crackdown in Hong Kong?
    One certainly hopes that we are not about to witness a Tiananmen Square-style massacre. But even a less bloody crackdown would have far-reaching consequences and severely damage Beijing’s standing in the world.
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
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