The Logical Libertarian

Snoozefest alert! I agree, SCOTUS probably needs to clarify most of these nerdy fucking cases they take, but god damn, some of them are really over very trivial issues. I’ve said it before, and...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2024/04/01/average-joe-scotus-southwest-airlines-co-v-saxon/

The place—Salem Illinois railway yard. The time—August 2016. All around clumsy dipshit, Union Pacific railroad engineer Bradley LeDure was attempting to prepare some locomotives for an upcomi...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2024/01/22/average-joe-scotus-ledure-v-union-pacific-railroad-company/

Imagine going to buy a piece of property, and the realtor tells you it’s prime real estate. But then after you sign on the dotted line, you find out it’s in a flood zone, or close to somethin...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2024/01/05/average-joe-scotus-zf-automotive-us-inc-v-luxshare-ltd/

Isacco Saada and Narkis Golan, a young Italian couple may have been in love when they first married, but it didn’t take long to spiral into nosedive of violence and aggression. Isacco was an ab...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/11/16/average-joe-scotus-golan-v-saada/

Imagine a libertarian in the United States. It’s midnight, and he’s sitting at home in his underwear, binge-watching Better Call Saul reruns when he hears the door knob rattling. He spots the...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/09/14/anti-war-%E2%89%A0-anti-self-defense/

You want to talk about arbitration clauses? Great! This is the SCOTUS case for you. Back in 2011, AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, was a SCOTUS case where the majority ruled that arbitration agre...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/09/14/average-joe-scotus-morgan-v-sundance-inc/

In today’s world, a prevailing theme centers around the belief that everyone’s feelings are valid. The underlying message is clear: people are constantly grappling with emotional struggles, a...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/09/11/your-feelings-probably-arent-valid/

Back in 2018, North Carolina, convinced they had a voter fraud issue, passed Senate Bill 824, their Voter ID law, requiring voters to present a valid government ID when attempting to vote in pers...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/07/17/berger-v-north-carolina-state-conference-of-the-naacp/

Back in 1971, SCOTUS heard a case called Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics. I won’t review that case here, but basically, some feds hassled a dude named Bivens b...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/07/12/average-joe-scotus-egbert-v-boule/

Our kidneys are necessary for life—they filter toxins from your bloodstream, mix it into your urine, and you piss it out. As long as your kidneys work, any “wellness” treatment claiming to ...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/06/28/average-joe-scotus-marietta-memorial-hospital-employee-health-benefit-plan-v-davita-inc/

Y’all know everyone keeps talking about us being in an opioid epidemic, right? While I personally think some of this is unfair, true stories of bad actors, such as the Sackler family, who own a...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/06/01/average-joe-scotus-ruan-v-united-states/

As you may know, West Virginia is generally a low-income state. It’s not the place the rich and famous go to live. Part of the problem with West Virginia, is that its entire surface area is par...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/05/24/average-joe-scotus-west-virginia-v-environmental-protection-agency/

For most Americans, what they know about Native Americans is what they learned in history class, and that those fuckers love to gamble. More specifically, they love to open places for American to...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/05/18/average-joe-scotus-ysleta-del-sur-pueblo-v-texas/

The United States has a long, troubling, and weird history with Native Americans, to say the least. I won’t go into all that here, but this case does revolves around our relationship with Nativ...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/05/15/average-joe-scotus-denezpi-v-united-states/

Occasionally you’ll hear people talk about America having a long history of racism as it relates to the war on drugs. If you’re someone who tends to push back on any claims of racism thanks t...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/05/11/average-joe-scotus-concepcion-v-united-states/

So you’re all familiar with Texas Senator Ted Cruz, right? He’s the bombastic Republican with a voice that skipped right the fuck over puberty. Because Cruz is a bit of a rabble-rouser, he de...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/05/09/average-joe-scotus-federal-election-commission-v-ted-cruz-for-senate/

Strap yourselves in for another procedural snoozefest, everyone. Y’all remember what a royal prick Adolf Hitler was, right? Well, despite the fact that he’s been dead for nearly 80 years, he�...

https://logicallibertarian.com/2023/05/08/average-joe-scotus-cassirer-v-thyssen-bornemisza-collection-foundation/