Mike Fox
@foxmike90
Criminal Justice @CatoInstitute | Human-Companion to Miranda the Husky. https://www.cato.org/people/mike-fox
Unequivocally yes: Here's my proposal to do just that. cato.org/commentary/let…
Q: Should juries be told they have the power to reject unjust laws through jury nullification?
Sippin’ craft beer this summer? Thank homebrewers and free markets. But rising aluminum and steel costs driven by President Trump’s tariffs are squeezing small brewers. Higher overhead is forcing recipe changes, smaller cans, and fewer local options on the shelf. @DeHavenTad…
.@GeorgeWill's excellent @washingtonpost column on our tariff case: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Our system of plea-driven mass adjudication would still be problematic if every one of those guilty pleas was accurate and plea-bargaining itself was entirely free from coercion. But neither of those things is true. And you know who knows it? Every single system actor. It’s a…
Govt defendant asserting (and judiciary granting) qualified immunity in a case where the legal principle—e.g., you can’t retaliate against people for their protected speech—is clearly established, but the specific way THEY happened to go about it is not.
“WHAT IS THE CHARGE?! EATING A PIZZA? A SUCCULENT ITALIAN PIZZA?”
PHOTO: Man dressed as Chuck E. Cheese arrested for credit card fraud in Tallahassee, Florida
“Lawmakers should prioritize patients over providers’ turf wars and eliminate the competitor’s veto.” @CatoHealth azcapitoltimes.com/news/2025/07/2…
How is MAGA not a cult?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;…
Meanwhile the District insists traffic cameras are about safety. There's been similar litigation against DC unlawfully manipulating speed cameras in the past. If you get a ticket, fight it. It's long past due for Congress to block the District from using traffic cameras.
If you visit DC this summer, beware: The city manipulates traffic signs and cameras to take your money. Example: This is Massachusetts Ave. NW, which runs from Maryland into DC. Months ago, the MD side lowered its speed limit. It posted big orange signs to alert drivers. (1/6)
Setting aside all the potential constitutional issues with this EO, it reads as though it were written by a second grader.
NEW: President Donald J. Trump just signed an executive order to restore order to American cities and remove vagrants from our streets. Here is the text of the order: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it…
Kind of story that makes you fantasize what the world might look like if we didn’t have a judiciary that was wildly disproportionally composed of former prosecutors and other courtroom advocates for govt. I’m not saying none—just suggesting not a wildly disproportionate amount.
Officers with the DeKalb, Texas Police Department pulled over a paraplegic man and his fully blind best friend over a broken tag light on their country Cadillac...
When does this sort of thing start to make America great again? Seems to be taking a while. mynbc5.com/article/winoos…
That it is!
JUST IN: A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago and Gov. Pritzker over the state’s sanctuary policies, saying it’s an effort to encroach on state sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Immigration judges said they were told **how to rule** by DOJ to aid arrests of immigrants in courthouses.
The Epstein story won’t go away because it’s a cautionary tale about the true nature of govt—not govt at its worst, not govt captured by interest groups or perverted by people of low morals—but simply govt in its default state of amorality, indifference, and unaccountability.
Your daily reminder that the Dept of Justice is run and staffed by people who think that an equally valid way to resolve criminal charges is to simply identify a suspect and then ask them if they did it. No need for all that pointless due process and time-wasting jury trials.
Two things are true: 1. We should absolutely be having a conversation with the judiciary about changing the so-called “presumption of regularity” for govt litigants to a presumption of IRREGULARITY. 2. We will *never* have that discussion with the judiciary. Because reasons.
I thought y’all had some type of quid pro quo going on. Perhaps this is why DOJ wanted the charges against Adams dismissed without prejudice—so you could resurrect them when didn’t get your way.
The Department of Justice is suing New York City and Mayor Eric Adams for continuing to obstruct law enforcement with sanctuary city policies. If New York’s leaders won’t step up to protect their citizens, we will.
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I’ve received threats for my entire career advocating for legal sensible immigration rules. No, you don’t get to be paid by taxpayers to take away people’s freedom in secret because we have a right to know who you are and because your secrecy doesn’t make you or us any safer.
Would you want people threatening YOUR sons and daughters? Don’t let rhetoric dehumanize these heroes for doing the job the American people hired them to do – they're risking their lives to keep us safe.
I detail the evidence that the Trump administration is ignoring the very law that the president championed and signed. Laken Riley Act requires that DHS prioritize criminals, but @DHSgov is blatantly ignoring it, and DHS's own employees are among the victims.