Attorney General-elect Adam Laxalt has hired a new lawyer to defend Nevada against ‘an unprecedented encroachment on our laws and our Constitution,’ but is having trouble identifying precisely what those are.
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Meet Jay S. Bybee, currently a judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Back in 2001, Bybee was an appointee of the George W. Bush administration to an obscure but critical job heading up the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.
There has been no shortage of media coverage, outrage and commentary on the death of Eric Garner in New York City. That narrative has focused overwhelmingly on race (Mr. Garner was black, the officers were white), on the way police took him down in July, and on the grand jury’s decision last week to not indict the officer who had Mr. Garner in a chokehold.
The Internet might be the last truly free part of the U.S. economy, and the lack of government interference has led to transformative innovation, ferocious competition, waves of job creation and favorable costs for consumers.