The National Review
An Amazing Assertion of Bureaucratic Power
Investor's Business Daily
The Other Amnesty
CEI's Hans Bader is cited in Investor's Business Daily on proposed racial quotas in school dicipline: In "People Who Care v. Rockford Board…
Reason
Schools Implement Explicit Racial Bias in Suspensions
National Law Journal
Suit Over EPA’s Deleted Text Messages to Proceed
A pro-business advocacy group can move forward with a suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that challenges top officials’ deletions of text messages, a…
National Review
Government-Required Affirmative Action Is Costly
The always informative Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has a good discussion of the economic costs of one of the Obama administration’s new…
The Hill
Devil’s in the details of Campus Accountability and Safety Act
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA), S. 2692, seeks to change how publicly funded universities investigate allegations of sexual assault. . . The act…
The National Review
Blatant Conflict of Interest in Campus Accountability and Safety Act
Writing with his usual clarity and command of facts and cases, Hans Bader of Competitive Enterprise Institute points out a glaring problem with the proposed…
The Daily Signal
Cyberbullying Law Struck Down in New York
A state court in New York recently struck down that state’s cyberbullying law as violating the First Amendment. . . the state of New…
Daily Caller
Democrat On U.S. Civil Rights Commission Wants Speech Codes For ‘Adolescent’ 21-Year-Olds
Hans Bader is mentioned in a Daily Caller article discussing campus restrictions on First Amendment-protected speech: Among many others, Hans Bader…
Overlawyered
Labor and Employment Law Roundup
“Telling Employee He Is ‘Eligible’ For Bonus Not Enough to Create Contractual Obligation” [Chris Parkin/Daniel Schwartz; Connecticut appeals court] Richard Epstein on Obama’s anti-LGBT-discrimination…
Frontpage Magazine
Obama Is Out of Order
The Court ruled 5-4 in Harris v. Quinn that SEIU cannot compel people who care for their loved ones to become union members. Nor can…
Fox News
Supreme Court Ruling on Union Dues Could Cost SEIU Millions in Payback
One of the nation's most powerful labor unions could face a costly onslaught of lawsuits seeking tens of millions of dollars in dues, after the…
The College Fix
California ‘Affirmative Consent’ Sex Bill Imposes Low Legal Standard for Guilt
Mint Press News
Black And Hispanic Students Punished More Severely Than White Counterparts
Overlawyered
Schools Roundup
On school discipline and zero tolerance, Eric Holder draws the wrong lessons [Hans Bader, CEI "Open Market"] “Prior problem behavior accounts for the racial gap…
Investor's Business Daily
Study Hits Holder’s ‘School-Prison Pipeline’ Charge
As the attorney general again warns schools that even race-neutral discipline policies discriminate against black students, a study finds serial misbehavior "completely" explains the racial…
National Review
Quick Hits
Hans Bader writes about how Harry Reid killed a bipartisan patent-reform bill, and simultaneously undermined one of President Obama’s favorite talking points.
National Review
Holder vs. Roberts
Attorney General Eric Holder criticized Chief Justice John Roberts in a commencement speech a few days ago: "Chief Justice John Roberts has argued that the…
Reason
Choke Point Check-In: Constitutional Concerns in DOJ Targeting ‘Risky’ Businesses
Operation Choke Point was initially pitched as a crackdown on web-based payday lending businesses that lend into states that prohibit it. Now it may have…
CQ Researcher
School Discipline: Should zero-tolerance policies be revised?
Some school districts are voluntarily revamping their discipline policies, while the Justice Department has sued others referred to them by the Education Department's Office for…
National Review
The Obama Administration’s Deserving Victims
The Obama administration recently recommended that campuses deny students facing sexual-assault charges the right to cross-examine their accuser, a trend already well underway on campuses…
National Review
Operation Chokepoint: Creeping into Unconstitutionality?
Operation Chokepoint is part of the administration’s Obamaloans strategy to wipe out the small dollar lending industry that I wrote about in January. Briefly, this…
The Blaze
White House Official Accused of Trying to Hide Communications
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has sued the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to produce the work-related emails of its director, John Holdren,…
Overlawyered
Schuette v. Coalition, in tweets
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court, over two dissents, ruled that the voters of Michigan were within their rights under the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause to…
Overlawyered
Schools Roundup
More applications of New Jersey’s pioneering “anti-bullying” law. And will it stand up in court? [Hans Bader, earlier here, etc.]…
Politico
White House Calls in the Deans — China Growth Slows — Bloomberg Says He’s Going to Heaven
COURT MOVES AGAINST PART OF DODD-FRANK — CEI’s John Berlau: “[The recent] ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Dodd-Frank’s ‘conflict minerals’ disclosure…
Power Line
Lilly Ledbetter and the Lie That Will Not Die
When a lie becomes an article of faith not just for a movement for an entire political party, that lie is probably here to stay.
Overlawyered
Free Speech Roundup
New Jersey ruling letting parents be sued over kids’ Facebook posts will chill speech [Hans Bader/CEI, earlier]…
Cato
Kansas Court Wrests School-Budget Decisions from Voters
Forbes
Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths: School Discipline Rates Must Be “Proportionate”
New York Post
Obama Makes Up His Own Rules
Legal Newsline
Eleven AGs, three organizations file appellate briefs in Dodd-Frank challenge
Washington Post
Inconvenient Facts for Obamacare
Townhall
Married To The State
Washington Post
Obama’s minimum wage plan has more statutory authority than prior “unilateral” actions
The Blaze
Obama Minimum Wage Order Likely To Impact Just 3 Percent Of Federal Contractors
Washington Times
Obama Administration Guidelines Could Lead to Racial Quotas in School Discipline
The Blaze
How the IRS Could Chill Political Speech by Redefining the Word ‘Candidate’
f adopted, such a rules change would be open to broad legal interpretation, said Hans Bader, senior attorney for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free…
NC Register
Obamacare Threatens to Hit Many Families’ Pocketbooks
National Review
Dodd-Frank’s Diversity Quotas
Daily Caller
Lawyers: Private parks should sue Obama administration for forcing them to close
“As a lawyer who once worked for the government, I assume there is no legal authority for this because these private tourist attractions were not…
Overlawyered
Hans Bader on disabled-hiring quotas
Building on my post of yesterday, Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Hans Bader makes several additional points about the Department of Labor’s new hiring…
Cleveland
NLRB, Now With All Members Confirmed by Senate, Begins First Week Reviewing Labor Cases
This week marked the first in a decade in which all five National Labor Relations Board members were confirmed by the U.S. Senate. . .
National Review
The Pinnacle of Rent-Seeking
In this post, Hans Bader of CEI explains how Georgetown Law School has figured out how to maximize its haul of federal-financial-aid money. You’ve almost…
Bloomberg
New Sexual Harassment Rules Openly Defy Reason
The new federal guidelines for how colleges should handle sexual-harassment cases aren’t just unreasonable. They’re hostile to reasonableness in principle. The Justice Department and the…
Cato
Banning Fancy French Cheese
I’m no cheese connoisseur. . .But I understand that some people have more refined tastes, and they feel very strongly about the issue. And they…
Washington Post
‘Alice in Wonderland’ coercion
Hans Bader, a former OCR lawyer now with the limited-government Competitive Enterprise Institute, notes that this “Alice in Wonderland” — “sentence first, verdict afterwards” —…
Citation
Obama administration demands that colleges adopt unconstitutional speech codes
The Justice Department and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights have now effectively defined dating and flirting as “sexual harassment,” in addition to demanding…
The Atlantic
No Sex Talk Allowed: What’s wrong with the Obama administration’s definition of sexual harassment
"Federal government mandates unconstitutional speech codes at college and universities nationwide," the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) accurately…
Reason
Democratic Nativist (Yes, Such a Creature Exists) Strikes At Nikki Haley
Every good liberal knows that GOP is the party of bigoted, narrow-minded “knaves and fools” that is in every way morally inferior to the noble…