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It shouldn’t need to be said, but the Confederacy didn’t stand for opposing federal overreach or eliminating handouts to big business—it stood for slavery. https://j.mp/30GMhoJ

"On qualified immunity, I was just looking at a document from the @CatoInstitute ...If officers...know they won't face a criminal or civil penalties, there will be no change." - @CoryBooker Qualified immunity is an unqualified injustice. #AbolishQI https://j.mp/3cwCiVq

A Happy Juneteenth from all of us here at the @CatoInstitute ! The triumph of hope over adversity and liberty over slavery is very much worth celebrating. https://j.mp/2Nc9Uh5

Remember when Trump claimed illegal immigrants were crime-prone? New data show the opposite. Incarceration Rates, 2010–2018: Demographics and Policy Implications https://cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/illegal-immigrant-incarceration-rates-2010-2018-demographics-policy?&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=addtoany via @CatoInstitute

Racism is an age‐​old problem, but it clearly clashes with the universal ethics of libertarianism and the equal natural rights of all men and women. https://j.mp/2L0W7tJ

Today’s Supreme Court ruling on DACA is bad judging on top of bad lawyering that has good short‐​term practical effects but makes policy reform harder in the longer term, says #CatoSCOTUS's @ishapiro ... https://j.mp/2ChLQah #CatoImmigration

The abolition of slavery, and the 20th century’s civil rights movement, was a quintessentially libertarian moment. After all, it was a movement that prioritized the rights of individuals over the oppressive nature of government. https://j.mp/2L0W7tJ

Republican Senator Introduces Legislation To Reform Qualified Immunity https://cato.org/blog/republican-senator-introduces-legislation-reform-qualified-immunity?&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=addtoany via @CatoInstitute

Important to remember.

“Cato Institute’s boilerplate description of itself used to include the line, ‘Since [the American] revolution, civil and economic liberties have been eroded.’ Until Clarence Thomas... pointed out to us that it didn’t seem quite that way to black people.“