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Ilya Somin
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Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger. .. more

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Ilya Somin is an American legal scholar. He is a law professor at George Mason University, B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, a blogger for the Volokh Conspiracy, and a former co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review (2006–2013). His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, migration rights, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. .. more

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 18h
It would make them redundant because suppression of even small invasions and rebellions is necessary to enforce the law. Thus, if inability arises any time there are any violations of law, all rebellions and invasions would be covered by Section 3.

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 18h
The action is different in some ways . But suppression is still necessary to enforce the law.

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 19h
Rebellions an invasions are both against the law.

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 1d
My take on the Supreme Court's important (and correct) ruling against Trump's use of National Guard in Illinois. I think Court got it right, but there is an additional (and better) rationale for the result: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Thoughts on the Supreme Court Ruling Against Trump in the Illinois National Guard Case
The decision is a preliminary "shadow docket" ruling. But it strongly suggests the majority believes Trump's use of the Guard is illegal.
reason.com

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 2d
Most don’t. Don’t take my word for it. See what they themselves say about libertarians. It isn’t complimentary, to put it mildly.

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 2d
How economic impact of immigration restrictions is similar to that of racial discrimination and segregation (I build on excellent post by @eccentricecon.bsky.social): reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Why the Economic Impact of Immigration Restrictions is Similar to that of Racial Discrimination and Apartheid
Economist Tarnell Brown explains.
reason.com

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 2d
Heritage Foundation implosion has been a wakeup call for some conservatives about dangerous trends on Trump-era right. I hope they will see that nationalism is inherently prone to bigotry, and reject it in favor of universal principles of the Founding: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Lessons of the Heritage Foundation's Implosion
The decline of this major conservative institution has been a wakeup call for conservative intellectuals. But will they draw the right lessons from it?
reason.com

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 2d
The risk of death in such cases is infinitesimal. No way to completely avoid such risks except by stifling people.

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Kasia Szymborski Wolfkot @kasiawolfkot.bsky.social · 3d
(10/16) @ilyasomin.bsky.social highlighted a Virginia case holding a law authorizing broadband service providers to take property to install fiber optic cables across railroad-owned land was an unconstitutional taking — one of many examples of states providing more protections than #SCOTUS in Kelo.
Norfolk Southern Railway v. State Corporation Commission
Virginia Supreme Court held that a law permitting broadband service providers to install fiber optic cables across railroad property violates a state constitutional amendment providing robust "public ...
statecourtreport.org

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Tarnell Brown @eccentricecon.bsky.social · 3d
1. Immigration restrictions are the new color bar: a costly way for insiders to feel protected while the whole economy shrinks.
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open.substack.com/pub/eccentri...
Immigration and the New Color Bar
How Becker and Hutt expose the economic self-sabotage behind modern exclusion.
open.substack.com

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