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Episode #41 Today on Categorical Imperatives we do our latest installment of "Today In Supreme Court History. This is the 1992 case that sought to overturn Roe v Wade, but ended up reaffirming Roe, however with some very interesting changes to the original decision. This case had a fascinating treatment of a number of areas of 14th amendment jurisprudence including it's shifting views on the appli...

Today on Categorical Imperatives we are talking to the one and only Scott Horton. Scott is founder of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Anti-War.com, host of the Scott Horton show and has written several books, including his most recent: "Enough Already - Time to end the war on terror, You can find him at these sites: The Libertarian Institute - https://libertarianinstitute.org/ Ant...

On a recent episode I did about the American conception of Popular Sovereignty I was asked how Sovereignty works in England, and it's actually a pretty damn interesting question to answer. This gave me a chance to touch on much of my most favorite areas of the study and practice of law: Constitutional law, Common Law & Comparative all mixed in with the fascinating history of power struggle and...

Today we have another installment of a series that has consistently been some of my personal favorite episodes and that consistently get 2x or 3x the views of other videos. Today In Supreme Court History. As of the day I am recording this, June 8th in 2005 the Supreme Court issued their opinion in the case of Gonzalez v Raich (2005) This case has relevance to innumerable aspects of Constitutional...

Episode #52 In this episode we will be revisiting a recent controversy when Ocean City Police assaulted a group of people doing nothing wrong. I want to discuss how advocates who condemn the enforcement of the very law they insistently got passed. Campaign For Tobacco Free Kids tweet - https://twitter.com/TobaccoFreeKids/status/1404536501828993027?s=20 Maryland's "Stop and Identify" statute (Md. C...

Episode #54 In this episode we discuss Section 230's Legal meaning Bootleggers and Baptists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists Section 230 Bootleggers and Baptists: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/05/29/section-230-bootleggers-and-baptists/ 47 U.S. Code § 230: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230' CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITIONS 19-1046 PHAM, TONY H., ET AL. V. RAG...

Today on Categorical Imperatives I want to talk about some common gun control myths and push back on a lot of the misinformation that comes from both politicians and the media and most importantly, from the White House. Joe Biden has a long history of supporting severe gun control laws that are often based on outright lies about non-existent loopholes, imaginary classes of weapons and lies about t...

While Second Amendment Sanctuaries are a fantastic idea, there is a big problem. People who believe they live in a 2A sanctuary city or state often are mistaken. Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center joins me to discuss what the truth is about Second Amendment Sanctuaries, what are some myths surrounding them & what you can do to on a state or local level to prevent federal encroachment...

Originalism and Textualism are judicial philosophies few people have a good understanding of. In fact some of the more absurd misconceptions I have heard espoused about these methods of interpretation came from people who profess to be originalists or textualists. The fact is there is very little good information out there on which to base your opinion and understanding of these concepts unless yo...

Episode #57 Today on Categorical Imperatives we will be discussion Julian Assange and Constitutional law. For those not following the legal battle being fought right now in both England and America by their respective government's solicitors general and the counsel for Assange, we recently learned that the governments main witness in the case brought against Assange for espionage admitted to compl...

Episode #58 In this episode we will be discussing a statement put out by the ACLU claiming the second amendment is white supremacy and anti-blackness. So we will be touching on sill the ways that is a legal absurdity. Then we discuss why it is gun control, if anything, is inherently racist. Follow & Support PayPal. Me - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/categoricalimperativ All Paypal Options -...

Episode #58 Today on Categorical Imperatives we return to my favorite (and mot popular & requested by you, dear viewers!) series "Today In Supreme Court History" Because it is impossible to sit around and wait for a date celebrating the anniversary of the cases covered the "Today" in Today In Supreme Court History merely signifies today is the day I decided to make a video about a classic case...

Episode #59 Today we continue with the latest video for my ongoing series "Today In Supreme Court History" with the second installment in a three part series I am doing on the foundational Constitutional law case of McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819) A case which is considered by some of our most prominent lawyers, jurists & scholars to be the most important case in the corpus of consti...

In this episode we consider the future of the Second Amendment. In a recent episode about the 9th Circuit carry case Young v Hawaii (2021) I speculated that the Second Amendment is well on it's way to being swept into the dustbin of repudiated Constitutional principles. No one likes to admit they may have been wrong, in this case I make an exception. We discuss a recenty decided case and a fast ap...