Legal Update

It was recently reported that “Justice Clarence Thomas, a reliable conservative vote on the Supreme Court, is mulling retirement.” In response, Thomas’s wife Ginni posted the following message on…

View in your browser. Between 1933 and 1977 the State of North Carolina authorized the involuntary sterilization of more than 8,000 people, most of whom…

View in your browser. Following the 2010 census the North Carolina General Assembly prepared redistricting plans for both houses of the state legislature and for…

View in your browser. If constitutional government survives in this country, much of the credit will go to one man — Antonin Scalia, who died…

View in your browser. Reducing carbon emissions (and thereby preventing catastrophic global warming) has always been one of President Obama’s primary goals. In his…

View in your browser. As regular readers already know, civil asset forfeiture is a legal process that empowers government agents to confiscate property they suspect…

View in your browser. Americans have been quite creative about finding novel ways to use — and abuse — the new communications media that…

View in your browser.   As I have previously reported, last May…

View in your browser. In October the NC State Bar and LegalZoom, Inc. announced a settlement in their long-running dispute over the latter’s…

View in your browser. Last week’s horrific terrorist attack in Paris seems to be causing changes in the way policymakers think about the rise of the…