Alden Abbott

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Alden Abbott is deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and the John, Barbara, and Victoria Rumpel Senior Legal Fellow. Read his research.

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    Democrats Are Arguing for Constitutional Right to a Tax Deduction. Here’s Why It’ll Fail.

    Alden Abbott
    On Feb. 1, Maryland’s attorney general signaled his state will join with the coalition of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, whose Democratic governors have announced their intent to sue the federal government over a provision in the Republican tax bill, which they claim unconstitutionally targets blue states. The recently passed 2017 Tax Cuts and…
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    Supreme Court Tellingly Rejects Lower Court Roadblock to Elimination of DACA Program
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    Contra Activist Judges, It’s Not Discriminatory to Prohibit Transgender Individuals From Joining Military
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    Some Say Facebook and Amazon Should Be Broken Up. Here’s Why That Thinking Is Wrong.
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    5 Terrorists Are Still in Pretrial Hearings for the 9/11 Attacks. Here’s Why It’s Taking So Long.
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    Erosion of Patent Rights Is a Threat to Innovation and American Prosperity
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    Microsoft’s Plan to Expand Broadband Would Benefit Rural Americans
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    Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ Proposals Would Make Americans Worse Off
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    Congress Should Use Congressional Review Act to Strike Down Ill-Advised Arbitration Rule
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    Brexit Means More Economic Freedom and International Prosperity. It Should Not Be Derailed.
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    The European Commission Just Fined Google $2.7 Billion. Such Foreign Antitrust Attacks Threaten US Innovation and Prosperity.
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    How the Supreme Court Trampled on Private Property Rights in a Recent Decision
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    Why Trump Can and Should Pull Out of Paris Climate Change Agreement
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    Seattle Ordinance Limiting Landlord Rights Undermines Economic Liberty and Should Be Rescinded
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    This Government Office Has Long Needed Reform. Now, Congress Is Acting.
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    AT&T and Time Warner Make a Bet on Innovation, but Regulators May Get in the Way
    James Gattuso
    • Opinion

    Stay Tuned for Music Performance Wars
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    • Opinion

    To Promote American Innovation, We’ve Got to Modernize This Office
    Jessica Higa
    • Opinion

    No Time for Losers: Why Queen Can’t Pick Its ‘Champions’
    Jessica Higa
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    Trademark Protection Inspires Taylor Swift to Keep Up the Sick Beats
    Jessica Higa
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    Americans Must Channel the Founders and Protect Artists’ Property Rights
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    • Opinion

    Why Is the Government Trying to Regulate Fashion Blogs?
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    Federal Policy Proposals Would Deter the Development of Revolutionary New Biologic Drugs That Fight Cancer
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    This Government Agency Offends the Constitution and Needs to Be Eliminated
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    Why You Can Now Legally Mine an Asteroid
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    One Man’s Fight With Lou Gehrig’s Disease Highlights Why the FDA Needs to Be Reformed
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    • Opinion

    Appeals Court Rules It’s Time for the NCAA to Pay Up
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    Supreme Court Decision Against EPA a ‘Victory for Common Sense’
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    Supreme Court Decision Makes It Harder for Government to Take Personal Property From Americans
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    Copyright and the Internet: Getting the Balance Right
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    Will Court Upend Government’s Raisin Confiscation Scheme?
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    How Government-Imposed ‘Net Neutrality’ Is Recipe for Crony Capitalism
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    • Opinion

    Taylor Swift Just Trademarked ‘This Sick Beat.’ What Does That Mean?
    Alden Abbott
    • Opinion

    Will the Supreme Court Protect a Farmer’s Right to Grow and Sell Raisins?
    Alden Abbott
    • Opinion

    If Obama Wants More Solar Energy, Why Is He Making It So Expensive?
    Bryan Riley
    • Opinion

    The Reasons a Federal Court Gave for Declaring Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration Unconstitutional
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    New Report Reveals More Details about Businesses Being Targeted by Operation Choke Point
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    • Opinion

    Was It Right for AT&T to Slow Down Some Customers’ Internet Speed on Their Smartphones?
    Jason Snead
    • Opinion

    The Good News About Ebola
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    Detroit: Helping the Poor amid Water Woes
    Kayla Murrish
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    Federal Court Upholds Right to Carry Handguns in Public in D.C.
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