John Locke Updates: Legal Update

View in your browser. In last week’s newsletter I linked to several commentaries offering qualified praise for the sentencing reform bills that have…

View in your browser. The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was introduced this month by a bi-partisan group of US Senators that…

View in your browser. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson and his wife Candy have just published a new book called A More Perfect Union:…

View in your browser. In his response to the recent shootings at Umpqua Community College, President Obama made an impassioned plea for more gun…

View in your browser. Back in June I discussed Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s disturbing suggestion that energy companies that raise doubts about the Administration’s response to climate…

View in your browser. Two weeks ago, I listed some actions by California State Attorney General Kamala Harris that had brought her notoriety, but I ran…

View in your browser. One of the many things I like about North Carolina is a provision in the NC General Statutes that forbids…

View in your browser. California Attorney General Kamala Harris has attracted a lot of media attention, and not just because, as the President says,…

View in your browser. Last week the New York Times ran a disgraceful hit piece under the headline: "Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court Justice…

View in your browser. In June, the US Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code. The Court held that,…