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Two Cheers For The Texas Heartbeat Act
We have seen a tremendous amount of misinformation, disingenuousness, and unjustified hysteria this week in response to S.B. 8, Texas’s novel new heartbeat law, which bans abortions after a...
Mississippi Asks SCOTUS to Overturn Roe
Next term, the Supreme Court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Womenโs Health Organization, the case concerning Mississippiโs statutory 15-week gestational ban on most abortions. Dobbs represents the best chance...
Porn Is Not a Blessing of Liberty
Last week, four Republican congressmen sent a missive to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. This one-page letter beseeched Barr to actually enforce extant obscenity law as it applies to...