An article adapted from Christian Davenport’s new book, which I’m reading in Florida.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Cabotage
Glenn Reynolds says let’s end it, for the dogs. It’s a law that should have ended many decades ago.
Space Law In The UK
Behold, the new British Space Act. I and others had not-insignificant influence in forming this. They were headed down a bad European road a few years ago. They were originally going to allow the European aviation safety agency regulate it, which would have been disastrous. Instead, as we recommended, it is modeled closely on the U.S. launch-licensing system.
You Failed Hillary, America
Duck Duck Go
Why should I use it instead of Google?
Also, they don’t lie about not being evil.
Planetary Protection
…is not required by Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty. I suspect a lot of people at COPUOS would disagree.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, bad link fixed.
Local Governments
Can they have greater autonomy from the states?
[Tuesday-morning update]
Related: Could #Resistance in California result in federal troops being sent there? It would be pretty amusing if they use this as an excuse to recognize a new legislature in the hinterlands.
A Harbinger For Space Policy?
Trump apparently is impressed with commercial space.
The New Challenge To ObamaCare
Will John Roberts get a do-over?
…it is significant that both Ilya and Josh agree that the insurance “requirement” is now clearly unconstitutional under Chief Justice Roberts’ “saving construction” approach. If a court so holds, the entire statute would then be in the same posture as it would have been if he had sided with the dissenting justices in the first place. In that eventuality, four justices thought the whole law was inseverable, and the Obama administration conceded the mandate would be inseverable from at least two key provisions of the Act. So the key issue in the new litigation is likely to be whether the fact that Congress zeroed out the penalty somehow changed this analysis such that the mandate is now severable from the rest of the ACA when it was not before. I look forward to reading much more on this question.
This would be great, if this legislative atrocity can finally be struck down via this method, considering all of the legislative legerdemain and chicanery the Democrats had to use to pass it in the first place.
Suiculturicide
I think that’s the word that Stephen Green is looking for.