While this is certainly a question that no-one is asking, there is an answer. The latest episode of Colorado Inside-Out, from Colorado Public Television channel 12 in Denver, is our annual “time machine” program. This year’s show is set in 1935. I’m Westminster Law School bankruptcy professor Israel Ben Koplowitz. Patricia Calhoun (real-life publisher of [...]
Research Director at the Independence Institute Dave Kopel talks to Cam Edwards about the future of gun rights in America following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Second Amendment incorporation in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Kopel notes that the Supreme Court was divided on this issue and has the potential to become less [...]
On July 1, 2010, outside witness testimony concluded the four day confirmation hearing of Elena Kagan to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Here is the audio of David Kopel’s oral testimony: Video including including Q&A with Senators Sessions and Hatch is available here. *************** David B. Kopel is Research Director of the [...]
Available here. Co-authored with Stephen Halbrook. The oral testimony will be late July 1 or early July 2. ************ David B. Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute, a public policy research organization in Golden, Colorado, and is an Associate Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute, in Washington. His latest book, Aiming for Liberty: The [...]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, by joining the Breyer dissent in McDonald which called for Heller to be over-ruled, contradicted what she had told the Senate last summer. I supply the details in an op-ed for the Washington Times. On Thursday (or perhaps, early on Friday), I will be testifying on the Kagan nomination. My written testimony [...]
Sixteen minutes, taped this afternoon, for iVoices.org. I also discussed the decision on Denver’s Caplis & Silverman radio show. Dennis Henigan, from the Brady Center, was the guest after me. The show’s archive link is here. Ignore the archive’s caption, which incorrectly states, “Do you agree with the Court? David Koppel opposes the decision, Dennis [...]
Transocean’s ban on employee knife possession nearly killed several BP drilling rig survivors, by preventing them from cutting the rope that attached the life boat to the drilling rig. Details here, from Towmasters. Some additional details here from the 1:30 p.m. report by the New Orleans Times-Picayune: the life boat was supposed to have a [...]
Dave Kopel is the Research Director of the Independence Institute, a public policy research organization in Golden, Colorado. Here are his comments after the Oral Arguments on McDonald v. Chicago.
