This two-part series examines the arguments in Murthy v. Missouri that Solicitor General Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar made on behalf of the federal government in her brief with the US Supreme Court. The first post provided background on Murthy (formerly Missouri v. Biden)…
By Clay Calvert | January 10, 2024
On October 24, 2023, AEI hosted a panel to discuss a case facing Meta’s Oversight Board, which concerns an altered video posted by a Facebook user of President Joe Biden. The video…
By Shane Tews | January 9, 2024
The US Supreme Court crept closer last month to resolving the jawboning case of Murthy v. Missouri when Solicitor General Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar filed her opening brief in this politically divisive battle over free speech and informal government censorship. She explained why…
By Clay Calvert | January 8, 2024
William McKinley won the presidency under the banner of the “Full Diner Pail” for workers allegedly underpinned by protection and high tariffs. Louis Brandeis, by contrast, was a free trader…
By Claude Barfield | January 5, 2024
Imagine two companies in the same business––generating and delivering information to consumers. One has done it for more than 170 years, the other––founded in 2015––for about 15 months. The older company…
By Clay Calvert | January 3, 2024
For a long time, advocates and policymakers in the higher education space were fixated on improving “access” to higher education. As a society, we recognized that higher education was a…
By Beth Akers | October 20, 2023