Most have probably already heard that President Trump told Axios in an interview that he seeks to remove birthright citizenship via an executive order. As many have already explained, this move would be unconstitutional as it would violate the Citizenship Clause of...
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TGIF: Birthright Citizenship – Just and Justified
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." So says section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. With the impeccable timing we’re...
TGIF: Let’s Stop the Merchants of Death
Imagine that back in the day, the U.S. government had contracted postal services out to a private company rather than setting up its own “public” agency. Today the U.S. Postal Corp. would have officers, directors, and employees who were not on the government payroll....
Anarcho-Capitalism and the Germanic Folklaw Ep. 97
In part two of our series on the Germanic Folklaw, I discuss how oaths and affirmations gave rise to formal legal language, how the Germanic Folklaw relates to anarcho-capitalism, and begin to touch on Christianity's role in subsuming criminal law to the state....
TGIF: The Insidious Wiles of Foreign Influence: Trump, Bin Salman, and Netanyahu
Even if the Saudi monarchy or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in particular did not murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi, that regime is an especially evil one in both its domestic and international conduct. To see that, one need only consider the horrendous Saudi war...
Roots of the Germanic Folklaw Ep. 96
In a return to a more scholarly format of the podcast, I take a bit of a deep dive into Chapter 1 of "Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition" by Harold J. Berman. In this episode, we become acquainted with the Germanic Folklaw that existed...
TGIF: Trump’s Middle East Delusions Persist
Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump’s No. 2 special envoy to the Middle East behind son-in-law Jared Kushner, assures us that his boss’s plan to settle the Palestine-Israel “conflict” once and for all is still in the works and is going to be great. (It’s a conflict in the...
“I Hold Myself in Contempt!” Liar, Liar on Actual Anarchy Ep. 95
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGcbAMHxYpk I appeared with my boys Daniel and Robert of the Actual Anarchy Podcast to discuss one of my favorite childhood movies, "Liar Liar." We booze out and have a great time discussing ethical obligations and legal constructs in...
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