Can Congress require China-based ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok as a condition for TikTok continuing to be easily accessible in the US? Alan Rozenshtein, Jane Bambauer, and Eugene Volokh discuss whether the law is consistent with the First Amendment – and with the much more rarely talked about Bill of Attainder Clause.
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On the latest episode of GoodFellows, senior fellows John Cochrane, H.R. McMaster, and Niall Ferguson, moderated as always by distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, speak with their Hoover colleague Senior Fellow Joshua Rauh about California’s billionaire wealth tax ballot measure.
September 19, 2026
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Six winners of the Nobel Prize in economics recently signed a statement in favor of California’s Proposition 40, the measure that would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on California billionaires.
September 21, 2026
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For reasons explained in my draft article, The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie, there is good reason to believe that the Supreme Court's June ruling in Chatrie v. United States will trigger a rethinking of how the Fourth Amendment applies to automated license plate reader systems such as those provided by Flock Safety. There was an oral argument in the Eleventh Circuit on this question on July 29 that you can listen to here, but there has been no ruling yet on that from the Eleventh Circuit.
September 16, 2026
