A Cato-centric list:

• Supreme Court’s past refusal to enforce plain language of Contracts Clause cries out for review, but in Minnesota life insurance dispute only Gorsuch is up for the task [Roger Pilon, related Cato podcast] More: John McGinnis;
• In Collins v. Virginia, all Justices except Alito agree “that the cops need a warrant to enter your curtilage [area immediately surrounding your home] even if they are doing so to search a vehicle parked there.” [Kevin Underhill, Lowering the Bar, earlier here and here]
• SCOTUS agrees 8-1 that arrest can constitute First Amendment retaliation even if also backed by probable cause, a position urged by Cato in its brief [Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach; Heidi Kitrosser, SCOTUSBlog]
• Audio: I join Yuripzy Morgan on her WBAL radio show to discuss Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, recent case on Ohio’s maintenance of voter rolls;
• Last winter I observed that neither wing of the Court seemed to be angling for a Culture War knockout at the Masterpiece Cakeshop oral argument, and predicted Kennedy might dispose of the case this way [New York Daily News flashback, more on cert grant and on Court’s decision, Cato Tumblr links on the case]
• Through pretextual police stops, government stealthily revives that hated institution of colonial days, the general warrant [Jay Schweikert on Cato cert amicus in Johnson v. U.S.]

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