114 Quotes by Adam Cohen

It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.

The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.

A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.