Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Second Amendment

When we no longer need people to keep muskets in their home, then the Second Amendment has no function, its function is to enable the young nation to have people who will fight for it to have weapons that those soldiers will own.  So I view the Second Amendment as rooted in the time totally allied to the need to support a militia.  So...the Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

~ Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, District of Columbia v. Heller, June 26, 2008

Dan Ferris on police brutality and qualified immunity

The toxic soup of drug prohibition and gun control, and even restrictions on cash transactions, and the qualified immunity that police enjoy?  Qualified immunity means we're all equal under the law except some people are more equal than others, like police.  It was established during the '70s.  There was unrest in the late '60s and '70s, and the Supreme Court established this thing called qualified immunity.  Which kind of looks to me like a license for the cops to abuse us.

~ Dan Ferris, "There's Riots in the Streets - Now What?," Stansberry Investor Hour, 4:40 mark, June 4, 2020

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on liberty

The liberty of the citizen to do as he likes so long as he does not interfere with the liberty of others to do the same, which has been a shibboleth for some well-known writers, is interfered with by school laws, by the Post Office, by every state or municipal institution which takes his money for purposes thought desirable, whether he likes it or not.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, dissenting opinion, Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45, 25 S.Ct. 539 (1905)

Separation of school and state: The Grove City College case

In the 1970s, Grove City College in Pennsylvania was ordered to certify that it complied with Title IX, which outlaws sex discrimination. The private liberal-arts school was not accused of discrimination but nevertheless objected to the order on grounds that it took no federal money. The feds insisted, saying that since some students received federal scholarships, that amounted to an indirect subsidy from the government. Grove City took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court -- and lost.

~ John Stossel, "With Government Money Come Strings," November 7, 2007