Archives: Jon Guze

Last month, I wrote about Session Law 2018-69: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group, which had just been unanimously approved by both houses of…

Two weeks ago, both houses of the N.C. General Assembly voted unanimously to approve House Bill 379: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group. This week,…

Last week, both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly unanimously approved House Bill 379: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group. If Governor Roy Cooper…

In the N.C. Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, Andy Wells (R-42) presented an important and valuable piece of legislation in the form of a proposed committee substitute for House…

Last June, the N.C. General Assembly passed the Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act which raised the age of juvenile jurisdiction in North Carolina to include 16- and 17-year-olds. As…

Updated as of January 2020. As the John Locke Foundation explained in a 2015 Spotlight report, transportation planning in North Carolina took a wrong turn in 1987 when the…

Updated as of January 2020. Civil asset forfeiture is a legal process that authorizes the confiscation of property suspected of having been used for, or derived from, criminal activity.

Updated as of January 2020. Eminent domain refers to the government’s power to take land from property owners who are unwilling to sell it voluntarily. The Takings Clause of the…

In The Federalist No. 62, James Madison wrote, “It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if…

On Monday, May 7, the John Locke Foundation and Western Carolina University’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise will cohost an event that should be of interest to anyone…