March 17th, 2024
Category: Criminal Justice, Drugs, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
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. […]
December 9th, 2023
Category: Book Review, Comment, Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Education, Efficiency in Government, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Publication Types, Regulation, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
November 30th, 2023
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
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 […]
November 29th, 2023
Category: Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
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 […]
October 29th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right
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 […]
July 21st, 2023
Category: Economic Regulation, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Markets and Privatization, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
July 20th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
July 6th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
May 26th, 2023
Category: Criminal Justice, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics
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” […]
April 4th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Job Training, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]