The health care bills backed by President Obama will cost $2.3 trillion, not the $900 billion Obama claims, and will be a “budgetary disaster” that drives up the national debt, explains health care expert James C. Capretta. The Obama administration managed to hide $1.4 trillion in costs generated by the health care reform bill though a series of budgetary “gimmicks” that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is required to treat as valid in scoring the bill’s enormous cost.
Although the CBO is…
A bill, SB 252, was just introduced in Maryland to increase child support obligations for households at most income levels–a massive increase of nearly 30 percent for a couple with one child making $3,400 a month! Maryland residents, already burdened by recent state tax increases, now face additional burdens.
I don’t live in Maryland, and I’m not divorced, so I won’t be affected by the bill. But as a lawyer who has studied most states’ child support guidelines, I find the…
The D.C. government sometimes has more empathy for criminals than for their victims. In December 2007, the D.C. Council voted to turn ex-cons into a protected class.
Now, it turns out that serial rapists are roaming free in the District of Columbia, since “Three thousand untested rape kits are sitting in a warehouse,” and D.C. has not even set up its own crime lab to nab rapists and other criminals using their DNA.
The D.C. Council hasn’t done anything about that. But in December…
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is questioning whether it is constitutional to force people to buy health insurance, as the health care bills backed by the Obama administration require. This “individual mandate” is unprecedented and appears to exceed Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
As the Congressional Budget Office noted in 1994“,
A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as…
Marginal Revolution’s Alex Tabarrok points to a proposed rule in California that would reclassify adult film actors as being subject to certain employment regulations. The unintended consequences are potentially fatal:
California’s anti-discrimination laws prohibit requiring an HIV test as a condition of employment; therefore the adult film industry’s current testing process, in which every performer is tested for HIV monthly, would be illegal. Nor would adult film producers be allowed to “discriminate” by refusing employment to HIV-positive performers. As a result, untested…
Press coverage of the Supreme Court is sometimes marred by ideological bias. Liberal court reporters sometimes distort what Supreme Court justices say, or the facts of Supreme Court rulings, in order to make justices look bad. One example is the blatantly false claim by an Arizona reporter that Justice Scalia criticized court desegregation rulings (a claim the reporter belatedly admitted was false).
Another is the extremely inaccurate press coverage of the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear. The New York Times has peddled…
American law has moved in a leftward direction over the last 20 years, steadily restricting use of the death penalty and criminal sentencing, and expanding lawsuits against businesses, thanks largely to the Supreme Court.
But to some left-leaning journalists who write about the Supreme Court, none of this has ever happened, and the Supreme Court, which is responsible for many of these liberal changes, remains a conservative boogeyman.
Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, America’s most famous Supreme Court reporter, writes today that in the Supreme…
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