Tag: ilya shapiro

Will Public-Sector Employees Win the Right to Choose?

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - January 13, 2016

The oral arguments have been heard by the Supreme Court Justices in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The case pits public sector employees against...

What King v. Burwell Really Means

Debbie Young - June 25, 2015

Yes, if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the King v. Burwell plaintiffs, there will be short-term losers. But what is not true...

Only 14 States Set up Exchanges

Richard C. Young - March 3, 2015

Read here the Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro writing on King v. Burwell: King focuses on the subsidies that help people pay insurance premiums, one ACA...

Immigration Humpty Dumpty

Debbie Young - December 2, 2014

As Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro (senior fellow in constitutional studies) points out, the U.S. immigration system “serves nobody’s interests—not big business or small, not...

A Big Deal—Bouncing O’Care back to SCOTUS

Debbie Young - September 8, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to face the O’Care ball in a steady stream of lawsuits against a complex web of subsidies and penalties...

Repeal Frankenstein’s O’Care Monster

Debbie Young - July 23, 2014

The Obama White House is claiming that part of the way Obamacare is written is nothing more than a drafting error. In a ruling...

Big Brother and Our Civil Liberties

Debbie Young - June 26, 2014

Should you be concerned that U.S. law enforcement has undergone a dangerous militarization in recent years? NPR reports here that according to the ACLU,...

Supreme Court Predictions

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - May 30, 2014

Cato expert Ilya Shapiro predicts how the Supreme Court justices will vote before their summer vacation: As we head into the last month of the...

Exiting the Shadows

Debbie Young - May 13, 2014

Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow of constitutional studies at Cato Institute, recounts his long, personal journey in becoming a U.S citizen. Mr. Shapiro immigrated...