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Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University, and the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, joins host T.J. O’Hara on Deconstructed to explore migration between cities, states, countries, and even within the private sector to escape gov
Opening our doors would ease the suffering caused by Vladimir Putin’s invasion and strengthen our position against him.
An immigration freedom amendment would restore the vision of the Founders.
187 Million Immigrants Have Moved to Freer Countries SHARE A great benefit of immigration is that it allows people to escape all kinds of tyranny. As George Mason University’s Ilya Somin has written in his excellent Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, “Empowering more people to vote with their feet can save millions from lives of poverty and oppression, and expand opportunities for meaningful political freedom for many more.” Indeed, immigration has already freed millions of people. Using the Cato Institute‐Fraser Institute Human Freedom Index and th...
Listen • 5:53 Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is arguing that his speech on Jan. 6, before the Capitol insurrection, is protected by the First Amendment. George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin says concerns about whether Trump’s speech would be protected if he were a private citizen is irrelevant. He argues U.S. presidents can be impeached and removed for certain speech, even if it is not criminal. Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Somin, who is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and author of “Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migra...