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 […]

Comments on Extended Coverage Rule

From: George Liebmann To: Rules Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 05:34:01 PM EDT Subject: Extended Coverage Rule Ms. Sandra Haines Rules Committee Dear Ms. Haines: My views on the proposed Rule may be succinctly stated: 1. There is no reason in law or policy for Maryland to depart from the practice of the federal […]

Kamala Harris Continues to Fail at the Border Kamala Harris Continues to Fail at the Border It is worth remembering that America’s uncontrolled immigration previously gave rise to the KKK. by GEORGE LIEBMANN American Spectator Online,October 24, 2023, 11:25 PM By now it is notorious that President Joe Biden’s choice as vice president and possible […]

The Road Not Taken, EV Edition

Menu The American Conservative Logo The Road Not Taken, EV Edition George Liebmann TheAmericanConservative.com,Oct 28, 2023 12:01 AM Anyone contemplating the American response to the alleged global warning crisis must be bemused by its allocation of priorities. It is conceded that the increased American use of natural gas in place of coal and petroleum and […]

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 […]

Trump Can Win: 2024 Isn’t 2020

The American Spectator Online Trump Can Win: 2024 Isn’t 2020 A Biden voter and non-fan of Donald Trump declines to play the derangement game. by GEORGE LIEBMANN August 13, 2023, 11:11 PM Surmounting Trump derangement syndrome is not an easy task. This is said by someone who enthusiastically grasped three opportunities to vote against him, […]

Israel’s Juristocracy–And Ours

Calvert Institute, July 30, 2023 Israel’s Juristocracy–and Ours by George Liebmann The conflict over the power of Israel’s Supreme Court has sharply divided Israeli society. The Likud party and religious conservatives contest the powers of a self-perpetuating court which recognizes few limits on its power to impugn both legislation by the Knesset and executive action. […]