Today in Supreme Court History: August 5, 1974
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 5, 1974
8/5/1974: Shortly after the Supreme Court decided United States v. Nixon, President Nixon released the "smoking gun" tape recorded in...
Roanoke Removes Gunshot Detectors Months After Approving Them
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Roanoke Removes Gunshot Detectors Months After Approving Them
Limited evidence of effectiveness combined with privacy concerns raises questions about the sensors.
Eleventh Circuit En Banc Upholds Florida Ban on Knowingly Admitting Minors to Obscene-as-to-Minors Performances
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Eleventh Circuit En Banc Upholds Florida Ban on Knowingly Admitting Minors to Obscene-as-to-Minors Performances
An excerpt from the long majority opinion (by Judge Andrew Brasher, signed by eight judges) yesterday in HM Florida-ORL, LLC...
Stop-Talking-to-Me Order Against Ex-Landlord Who Kept Texting Ex-Tenant About COVID Vaccines
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Stop-Talking-to-Me Order Against Ex-Landlord Who Kept Texting Ex-Tenant About COVID Vaccines
From Gonda v. Duering, decided Friday by the Hawaii intermediate appellate court (Justices Katherine G. Leonard, Keith K. Hiraoka, and...
My New Dispatch Article on Trump's Section 301 "Forced Labor" Tariffs
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My New Dispatch Article on Trump's Section 301 "Forced Labor" Tariffs
The article explains why the new tariffs are harmful and illegal for many of same reasons as those invalidated by the Supreme Court.
"After the Hallucination: What 100 Recent Cases Reveal About Candor, AI Errors, and Sanctions"
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"After the Hallucination: What 100 Recent Cases Reveal About Candor, AI Errors, and Sanctions"
From Adam Feldman (Legalytics) yesterday—unsurprising, but it's helpful that this can be shown concretely: This article examines what courts have...
VDARE's Libel Case Against N.Y. Times Thrown Out
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VDARE's Libel Case Against N.Y. Times Thrown Out
From N.Y. trial court judge Lisa Headley in VDARE Found., Inc. v. N.Y. Times Co., decided July 20: In this...
"This Direct Monetization of Prior Government Service Is Beyond the Pale"
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"This Direct Monetization of Prior Government Service Is Beyond the Pale"
From Third Circuit Judge Emil Bove's dissent last week from the one-line denial of mandamus in In re Mylan, Inc....
The Justices Should Hold Regular Press Conferences
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The Justices Should Hold Regular Press Conferences
The second installment in a SCOTUSBlog series with recommendations for Unilateral Supreme Court Reform.
Socialists Are Trying To Take Hold of the Democratic Party—and They're Winning
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Socialists are trying to take hold of the Democratic Party—and they're winning
The democratic socialists taking over the Democratic Party often say they just want affordable healthcare. They actually want to end America's constitutional system as we know it.
Harmeet Dhillon on Distinguishing Between Protected Speech and Actionable Discriminatory Conduct
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Harmeet Dhillon on Distinguishing Between Protected Speech and Actionable Discriminatory Conduct
Jewish Insider: Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, urged pro-Israel college students to distinguish between protected speech...
How a Top Democratic Operative Lost Faith in Her Party
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How a top Democratic operative lost faith in her party
Evan Barker discusses the Democratic Party's growing disconnect from working-class voters, and the future of populism in America.
Minnesota's Nudification Ban Could Punish People Over Parodies and Stripped-Down Selfies. Elon Musk's xAI Is Suing
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Minnesota's Nudification Ban Could Punish People Over Parodies and Stripped-Down Selfies. Elon Musk's xAI Is Suing
Minnesota's new AI law reaches far beyond deepfake abuse, banning parody, consensual images, and other protected speech.
Socialist Hugo Chávez Destroyed Venezuela's Power Grid. Now the Regime Hopes Private Capital Will Rebuild It.
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Socialist Hugo Chávez Destroyed Venezuela's Power Grid. Now the Regime Hopes Private Capital Will Rebuild It.
The regime is paying lip service to undoing a policy that caused incalculable human suffering but is hesitant to relinquish control.
Abdul El-Sayed's COVID Radicalism Is a Callback to a More United Party
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Abdul El-Sayed's COVID Radicalism Is a Callback to a More United Party
The pandemic provided a glue that held the Democratic Party together. Without it, they don't know what they believe.
Todd Blanche for Attorney General?
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Todd Blanche for Attorney General?
Rescinding the egregious Slush Fund Order should not obscure the fact that Blanche was a central participant in, and possibly the architect of, a scheme to defraud the court and the American taxpayer. The one job he is surely not qualified for is the one…
Senators Want To Claw Back Trump's Spending Power. They Should Just Pass a Real Budget Instead.
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Senators Want To Claw Back Trump's Spending Power. They Should Just Pass a Real Budget Instead.
The Senate’s funding bill stops Trump from handing political appointees control of federal grants, but Congress isn’t eager to rein in spending.
New Draft Article: "The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie"
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New Draft Article: "The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie"
Just posted today at SSRN.