Author: Benjamin Osborne

Primer: A Family First Vision to Lower Housing Costs

Housing affordability is not a technical problem to be tweaked at the margins of credit markets; it is a structural test of whether the United States still builds in proportion to its aspirations.

Primer: Drawing the Line Around Innocence in the Generative AI Age

The escalation of harms to children enabled by generative AI demands a national legal framework that balances enforcement rigor with constitutional safeguards.

Free Exercise Under Pressure: Civil-Rights Law and the Protection of Worship

Where demonstrators move beyond protected expression and into unlawful entry, physical obstruction, threats, or intimidation within a house of worship, both traditional state-law doctrines and federal civil-rights statutes provide a coherent and complementary basis for accountability.

When State Resistance Meets the Constitution: Supremacy, Executive Power, and the Architecture of Executing Federal Law

The Constitution permits states to decline compelled participation and commandeering in federal enforcement, but it does not permit states to impede, burden, or control the operations of federal law or federal officers.