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Taxes and job creators

Via Robert Waldmann Richard Thaler at Bloomberg provides a different take on innovators and job creators: A recurring theme of this year’s presidential campaign is the need to encourage the…

Thank you, Judge Posner

…so, reduce carbon emissions from electrical generating plants. — Judge Richard A. Posner, on Slate, 5:38 p.m. today Amen. Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan also made that point, in…

A Wisconsin federal judge today struck down as unconstitutional that state’s voter-ID law, ruling that the appearance of voter fraud, just like the appearance of political corruption, can’t justify impeding the First Amendment right to vote.

…attributable to Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge/prolific author Richard Posner, whose court is the one that will hear the appeal in that case, than it is to McCutcheon. That…