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 ›
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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 ›
SECOND AMENDMENT NOT A BARRIER TO FIREARMS CONTROL
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 ›
DISENFRANCHISING FELONS: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?
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 ›
SANCTUARY CITIES: DOJ EMPLOYS CIVIL WAR RHETORIC
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 ›
As the General Assembly Takes Up Gun Safety Legislation, Let’s Recall the Supreme Court’s Heller Decision
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 ›
HOW A MINORITY AND A PROPAGANDA BLITZ ELECTED A PRESIDENT
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 ›
STICKS, STONES, AND NAMES BREAK AND HARM POLITICS
Bad is good. Up is down. North is south. Ignorance is smart. Remember George Orwell’s 1984 and Newspeak? Do you get the feeling that familiar anchors of acceptable societal behavior are slipping away? And if so, what is at risk?… Read More ›
RESISTING THE REPETITION OF HISTORY
In 1964, the 24th Amendment outlawed the poll tax in federal elections but four states retained the restriction—Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. The year prior, Annie E. Harper was among a group of Fairfax residents who filed suit challenging the… Read More ›
WHITE TRASH: A BOOK REVIEW
Fans of American history who appreciate the view of iconoclasts such as Howard Zinn and Eric Foner will enjoy White Trash, subtitled The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, by Nancy Isenberg, as she persuasively and skillfully traces the… Read More ›