Author Archives: Carl Olsen

Here’s the open­ing para­graph from United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549, 551 (1995): In the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, Con­gress made it a fed­eral offense “for any indi­vid­ual know­ingly to pos­sess a firearm at a place that the … Con­tinue read­ing →

After read­ing the request from Mari­copa County for leave to file a late oppo­si­tion to the motion to dis­miss Arizona’s case, it strikes me that the county should be suing the state, not the fed­eral gov­ern­ment.  If the county thinks … Con­tinue read­ing →

States have failed to demand that the DEA acknowl­edge states’ rights to accept the med­ical use of mar­i­juana. Con­tinue read­ing →