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The V.A. needs to be more accountable

Concerned Veterans for America is demanding more accountability on the part of the Veterans Administration--an agency so choked with bureaucracy that it can't fire the type of incompetent and dilatory bureaucrats responsible for the Phoenix V.A. scandal. They're trying to get the Dept. of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 passed. You can read more about that here. And my friend Dan Caldwell from Concerned Vets discussed their efforts on the Armstrong & Getty Show this morning.

I'll be on the Mike Rosen Show in Denver tomorrow

...at 2pm on KOA AM 850. You can listen online here.

This time the Supreme Court should enforce the Slaughter-House Cases

I, like many libertarians, have railed for years about how wrong the Supreme Court was in the Slaughter-House Cases. In my latest brief, I ask the Court to actually apply the decision for once.

Frequently asked questions about our Obamacare case

You can learn more about the Origination Clause case that Pacific Legal Foundation has brought against Obamacare by clicking here.

Speaking at the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix May 15

I'll be speaking about my book, The Conscience of The Constitution, at the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix on May 15 at noon. And, most importantly, lunch will be provided! All are welcome; more info here.

Tim the Lawyer on race preferences, Obamacare, and the state of the law

I was in studio this morning with Armstrong & Getty to talk about PLF's Obamacare lawsuit, the Michigan race preferences decision, my book, and the state of the legal profession generally. You can listen online here.

If you missed George Will's column about my book, it's here.

The quote from Jonathan Swift I mentioned is from Gullivers Travels: "It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice, and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly."

By the way, I mentioned that I grew up in a museum in L.A. which is featured in many films, including Saving Mr. Banks. You can learn more about it here.

Speaking to the Sacramento Bastiat Society Tuesday

I'll be speaking about the Constitution and economic liberty at the Sacramento Bastiat Society meeting on Tuesday at 6pm at Piatti Italian Restaurant. RSVP to Erik Andresen (916) 928-6506.

Speaking about my new book in Sacramento Tuesday

I'll be speaking at the Sacramento Federalist Society on Tuesday at lunchtime about my book, The Conscience of The Constitution, and why both left and right get the Constitution wrong. All are welcome, and lunch is included.

George Will's column about my new book

George Will's latest column focuses on my new book:

The fundamental division in American politics is between those who take their bearings from the individual's right to a capacious, indeed indefinite, realm of freedom, and those whose fundamental value is the right of the majority to have its way in making rules about which specified liberties shall be respected. 

Now, the nation no longer lacks what it has long needed, a slender book that lucidly explains the intensity of conservatism's disagreements with progressivism. For the many Americans who are puzzled and dismayed by the heatedness of political argument today, the message of Timothy Sandefur's The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty is this: The temperature of today's politics is commensurate to the stakes of today's argument.

You can read the rest here...

Rational basis and the 12(b)(6) motion

I've signed an agreement to publish my article, Rational Basis And The 12(b)(6) Motion: An Unnecessary "Perplexity," in the George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal.