The United States Postal Service (USPS) predates the U.S. Constitution, owing its origin to the Second Continental Congress, which appointed Benjamin Franklin to be a salaried Postmaster on July 26, 1775. His mission was to establish a postal service from… Read More ›
This is a small treatise, some 119 pages, each only about 4.5 x 6.5 inches in size. Yet it has garnered a lot of buzz in political circles in recent months and it’s not hard to see why: it packs… Read More ›
With the advent of the 2018 midterm elections, a great deal of media attention will focus on the effect of PAC spending upon all levels of government races. A recent Wisconsin supreme court judgeship was the subject of spending by… Read More ›
By Jim McCarthy and Michael Fruitman When the call ended, you probably whispered to yourself that the $20 contribution to American homeless veterans could not have been better spent. Or was it well spent? If you knew that $15.90 of… Read More ›
HELLER AND GUN CONTROL “Justice Scalia would be proud,” wrote Judge William Young of the Massachusetts Federal District Court in referring to Justice Antonin Scalia’s 5-4 majority opinion in the 2008 case of District of Columbia v. Heller. VoxFairfax offered commentary… Read More ›
By Lorraine Marie Simonis Simonis is a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law.. The Parkland school shooting has reignited America’s cyclical gun control debate. At the urging of Parkland student activists, thousands of people demonstrated across… Read More ›
No person who has been convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote unless his civil rights have been restored by the Governor or other appropriate authority. … Read More ›
By Lorraine Marie Simonis Ms. Simonis is a J.D. candidate at the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in May 2018. Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. A bill to ban “sanctuary cities” in Virginia–which… Read More ›
Editors’ Note, July 8, 2019: The article that follows was originally published 15 months ago. Given that tomorrow will see the start of Governor Northam’s special legislative session on gun safety laws, we thought it an opportune time to revisit… Read More ›
The 2016 presidential election witnessed 137 million votes cast with 66 million and 63 million cast respectively for the Democratic and Republican candidates. Under our constitutional structure reflected in the Electoral College system, the popular votes translated into 302 electoral… Read More ›