Rick Esenberg is a conservative legal scholar and the president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard in 2018 focusing on legal and policy issues in Wisconsin, including school choice and property rights.
An unfortunate hallmark of our hyper-partisan age is the temptation to use the levers of government as a weapon against ideological foes. When one side loses an election, some conclude the next best thing is to cast a specter of misconduct and illegality over the winners or their allies. But the…
Free markets work through competition. Sellers offer an array of goods and services and buyers tell them what works. So when protectionist legislation favors one group of competitors over another, there’s a problem. That’s what’s happening to E. Glen Porter, who owns a cemetery in New Berlin,…