Time to End Baltimore’s Policing Consent Decree

Time to end Baltimore’s policing consent decree Baltimore Sun, March 15,2024 By George Liebmann Cities with consent decrees like Baltimore’s are likely to have higher homicide rates because two of the principal effects of such decrees are to discourage police recruitment and prevent proactive policing. Competent police commissioners can reform police; insulated federal judges cannot. […]

Book Review of ‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann

The New York Sun When Presidents Could Be Quietly Effective Biographies like Smith’s and Liebmann’s yearn for presidents such as Taft and Ford, who spent more time on the substance rather than the presentation of public policy. CARL ROLLYSON Wednesday, June 7, 2023 05:30:00 am ‘The Tafts’ By George W. Liebmann Twelve Tables Press, 432 […]

Firearms Control: Time for a Common Sense Bargain

SUBSCRIBELOGIN MENU American Spectator logo Firearms Control: It’s Time for a Common-Sense Bargain AMERICA RIPE FOR REFORM Firearms Control: It’s Time for a Common-Sense Bargain Trading an assault weapons ban for reducing federal police presence. by GEORGE LIEBMANN November 29, 2023, 11:05 PM The last 50 years have confirmed Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson’s warning against […]

The US Constitution

Welcome to the TLS Letters to the Editor The US Constitution December 1, 2023 Lawrence Douglas’s review of Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Livitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, on the American Constitution (November 3), is infected by presentism. In the 1940s people criticized the electoral college because it was thought to give an advantage to […]

A New Affirmative Action

A New Affirmative Action – George Liebmann https://lawliberty.org/?p=50119&preview=true 1/7 A New Affirmative Action What would an action program renouncing ethniccategories and embracing individualistic liberalismlook like? g e o r g e liebmann About a year ago, a major newspaper, mingling itseditorial and news pages as is now usual, published chartsshowing flat Black enrollment at a […]

A Built-In Solution to America’s Housing Shortage

The American Conservative A Built-In Solution to America’s Housing Shortage Easing restrictions on accessory apartments will allow us to maximize the housing stock we already have. George Liebmann Jul 21, 2023 12:01 AM Thirty-three years ago, I published an article urging states and localities to relax zoning restrictions on accessory apartments and home occupations. After […]

On Centralized and De-Centralized Federal Courts

On Centralized and De-Centralized Federal Courts Constitutional litigation should be more rare, and should involved fully developed and not assumed facts. George Liebmann,TheAmericanConservativeOnline Jul 20, 2023 12:01 AM Today’s discourse about legal issues is characterized by two phenomena: partisan polarization and indifference to history. Recent comments on the decision of Judge Terry Doughty in the […]

Dobbs Comes to Maryland

Dobbs Comes to Maryland The state and localities are wrestling with post-Roe realities. George Liebmann The AmericanConservativeOnlineJul 5, 2023 12:01 AM The Dobbs decision brought an end to the federal regime of abortion-on-demand, with only a vague “mental health” standard previously limiting third-trimester abortions. Abortions are no longer available with certainty. The screams that the […]

The True Import of Supreme Court Rulings on Televised Criminal Trials

The true import of Supreme Court rulings on televising criminal trials By Letter To The Editor From://George W. Liebmann//May 25, 2023, Maryland Daily Record To the Editor: I view with some annoyance the statement by the non-dissenting members of your Editorial Advisory Board (“On broadcasting criminal trials,” May 12, 2023) that I have provided ”misinformation” […]

Maryland’s Ill-Considered Jobs Program

Maryland’s Ill-Considered Jobs Program Maryland’s urban youth desperately need opportunities, and Governor Moore’s new program doesn’t deliver. George Liebmann,thyeamericanconservativeonline Apr 4, 2023 12:01 AM With great fanfare and much-sought national publicity, Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has unveiled a “a year of service” program for high school graduates. It amounts to a token program whose […]