Jon Guze

Politico reports: A nonprofit group founded by conservative political megadonors Charles and David Koch must disclose its largest givers to law enforcement authorities in California, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The Americans for Prosperity Foundation had argued that the state’s rules requiring filing of…

At the Federalist Society’s Docket Watch blog, Raleigh Attorney Andrew Brown has posted a nice summary of recent litigation over the proposed judicial selection amendment. Here are some excerpts: “A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty.”  So reads Article…

That’s the subtitle of a recent Volokh Conspiracy blogpost in which Jonathan Adler discusses an Obamacare challenge that’s currently being litigated in Texas. Adler’s no fan of the Affordable Care Act. Nevertheless, as far as this particular challenge is concerned, in Adler’s view the answer is decidely, “No”:…

A recent study conducted by the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests the answer is, “Yes”! From the Summary: Beginning in 2014, the state of Minnesota began a series of minimum wage increases. By contrast, Wisconsin increased its state minimum wage in…

If you were too busy to watch the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings this week, or if you turned them off in disgust, Will Baude has posted several highlights from a surprisingly edifying exchange between Judge Kavanaugh and Sen. Mike Lee: First, there was a colloquy in which Judge…

From the New York Times: Federal prosecutors have issued sweeping subpoenas demanding that millions of North Carolina voter records be turned over to immigration authorities by Sept. 25. With just two months to go before the midterms, the subpoenas threatened to…

The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, which was established in 2008 with a grant by the John W. Pope Foundation to “promote and support research in, and the teaching of, the history of economics,” has won a $5 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation.

That was Chuck Yeager’s response to the suggestion that Neil Armstrong would have approved of the decision to omit a key scene from a new film about his life — the moment when he planted the American flag on the surface of the moon.