Opinion
SEC Must Scrutinize Auditing Watchdog Before Offering More Funds
It’s good to be a powerful regulator that sets its own budget without much congressional oversight or a need to beg elected representatives for annual appropriations. Most Americans are feeling the squeeze of runaway inflation and stagnant wage growth, but not the...
All the News Fit for You To Hear
Do you want your government, under the guise of managing foreign affairs, to divert its anti-terror technology and resources to censor a segment of the American domestic press? Do you expect your tax dollars to fund and promote a scheme of media blacklists, designed...
The Case That Should Restore Our Government
Noah Rosenblum’s Atlantic piece on Jarkesy v. SEC, a case that was argued at the Supreme Court Wednesday, is alarmingly titled “The Case That Could Destroy Our Government.” This apocalyptic take is the culmination of a concerted effort on the part of sectors of the...
The First Amendment Threat in the Trump Civil Case
Can the government penalize someone for an inaccurate statement that wasn’t made with bad intent, recklessness or negligence, and that didn’t cause concrete harm to an identifiable third party? That’s the First Amendment question underlying the civil-fraud suit...
Examining The CDC’s COVID Response Actions: “Coercion. Deception. Censorship.”
In June of 2022, the NIH published a study bemoaning Americans' depleted trust in public health: "Public trust in federal government agencies has never been as important as it has been during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet public suspicions of scientific experts and...
Biden’s Social-Media Censorship Harms Us All
The Supreme Court will decide as early as Wednesday whether to stay the lower courts’ injunction against the administration’s social-media censorship in Missouri v. Biden. One of the solicitor general’s arguments in the government’s defense is that the well-documented...
The SEC Puts Itself on Moot—Answering Justice Robert Jackson’s Eight-Decade-Old Query—Has the SEC Become a Law Unto Itself?
The Supreme Court’s opinion in Axon Enterprise Inc. v. FTC (Axon/ Cochran) is full of surprises, from its inception—launched despite a seemingly impenetrable barrier of five adverse circuit precedents (hereinafter the SEC ALJ Cases)—to conclusion in a unanimous...
Just Say No
A recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, accompanied by the predictable hysterical media coverage, has spurred nationwide chatter about a possible return to pandemic restrictions, from school closures to mask mandates. This is not baseless supposition, as schools,...
Partners in Crime
In July of 2021, Meta’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, emailed a Facebook vice president in charge of content policy, asking why the company had removed from Facebook, rather than demoted or flagged, claims that COVID-19 was “man-made.” Rice responded, “Because...
In Landmark Free Speech Case, Fifth Circuit Judge Likens Government Coercion Of Big Tech To ‘Mob’ Boss
Whether or not the federal government and its myriad agencies will be able to coerce, cajole, encourage, threaten, and browbeat social media companies into removing views it does not like from their platforms was the question before the Fifth Circuit Court of...