Leading up to District Judge Vaughn Walker’s landmark ruling that struck down California’s Proposition 8, there was much legal speculation over what level of “scrutiny” he would use to review laws ...

Previously, I blogged the abstract, introduction, and Part I of my new article, Taxing Nudity: Discriminatory Taxes, Secondary Effects, and Tiers of Scrutiny, which has just been published in the ...

On December 10, the Supreme Court justices heard the arguments in the Fisher affirmative action case. In assessing the prospects for the case, many analysts hinge their views upon the willingness of ...

I noticed something slightly odd about the Supreme Court’s decision in McCullen v. Coakley — the way in which it characterized two of its prior precedents. First, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

Much of the attention surrounding the Supreme Court affirmative-action cases has focused on whether respondents Harvard and the University of North Carolina discriminate against Asian-American ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A proposed amendment to Iowa’s constitution regarding gun legislation will be on the back of the Nov. 8 ballot. The legal phrase “strict scrutiny” is crucial to ...

My new article, Taxing Nudity: Discriminatory Taxes, Secondary Effects, and Tiers of Scrutiny, has been published in the Journal of Free Speech Law. It's based on my work with the Georgia Association ...