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N.H. Court Rejects Attempt to Impose Hate Crime Liability on Neo-Nazis for Hanging "Keep New England White" Sign on Overpass

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: January 11, 1830

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Josh Blackman

Nicaragua's Regime Wages War on Religious Freedom

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Katarina Hall

Athletes Find New Way To Avoid Taxes

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Jason Russell

'The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact'

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Jacob Sullum

Friday Open Thread

Friday Open Thread
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Eugene Volokh

The Court Splits 5-4 on Docket Number 666

The Court Splits 5-4 on Docket Number 666

Josh Blackman | 1.10.2025 2:29 AM Trump's emergency application to stay his sentencing has the docket number 24A666. Sometimes, the truth is...

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Josh Blackman

More on the Phone Call Between Trump and Alito

More on the Phone Call Between Trump and Alito

Josh Blackman | 1.10.2025 1:47 AM On Wednesday, I wrote about the ABC News Story on Trump's phone call with Justice Alito. On Thursday, the  New...

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Josh Blackman

Brickbat: Multiple Failures

Brickbat: Multiple Failures

New York City Charles Oliver | 1.10.2025 4:00 AM A New York City Board of Corrections report found that Rikers Island detention officers repeatedly...

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Charles Oliver

"Free Speech and Private Power"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.10.2025 11:09 AM I have a short essay with this title in the Harvard Law Review Forum, responding to the Harvard Law...

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Eugene Volokh

No Pseudonymity and Sealing in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Man's Apparent Suicide, Despite …

No Pseudonymity and Sealing in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Man's Apparent Suicide, Despite …

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.10.2025 10:14 AM From Wednesday's decision by Manhattan trial judge Hasa Kingo in C.D. v. City of New York :...

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Eugene Volokh

Smartmatic's Defamation Suit Against Fox Corp. (and Not Just Fox News) Can Go Forward

Smartmatic's Defamation Suit Against Fox Corp. (and Not Just Fox News) Can Go Forward

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.10.2025 9:39 AM From yesterday's N.Y. intermediate appellate court decision in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Fox Corp. , by...

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Eugene Volokh

We Could Use a Man Like Grover Cleveland Again

We Could Use a Man Like Grover Cleveland Again

Donald Trump Matthew Rozsa | 1.10.2025 11:01 AM On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will join Grover Cleveland as one of only two American presidents...

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Matthew Rozsa

Instant Analysis of the TikTok Oral Argument

Instant Analysis of the TikTok Oral Argument

Josh Blackman | 1.10.2025 1:02 PM A few moments ago, the Supreme Court wrapped oral argument in the TikTok case. It stretched nearly three hours,...

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Josh Blackman

Review: Cabaret's Broadway Revival

Review: Cabaret's Broadway Revival

Entertainment Eric Boehm | From the February 2025 issue Cabaret begins with the Kit Kat Klub's flamboyant master of ceremonies enticing the...

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Eric Boehm

Facebook's New Free Speech Policy Shows Business Getting Back to Business

Facebook's New Free Speech Policy Shows Business Getting Back to Business

Social Media J.D. Tuccille | 1.10.2025 7:00 AM Big tech seems to be getting out of the censorship business, and it's about time. After years of...

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J.d. Tuccille

Hell Out West

Hell Out West

Los Angeles Liz Wolfe | 1.10.2025 9:30 AM L.A. fires nowhere near contained: So far, at least 10 people have been killed by the wildfires in and...

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Liz Wolfe

Review: The Radicals Who Tried To Kill Gerald Ford

Review: The Radicals Who Tried To Kill Gerald Ford

Entertainment Joe Lancaster | From the February 2025 issue In September 1975, two California women each tried unsuccessfully to assassinate...

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Joe Lancaster

Thank Jimmy Carter for Cheap Airfare

Thank Jimmy Carter for Cheap Airfare

Deregulation Steven Greenhut | 1.10.2025 7:30 AM Social media is replete with memes showing photos from the glory days of airline travel, where...

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Steven Greenhut

The Brutalist Is Great American Cinema

The Brutalist Is Great American Cinema

Movies Peter Suderman | 1.10.2025 10:31 AM For the last decade or so, it has sometimes seemed as if Hollywood has lost its grandest ambition—not...

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Peter Suderman

Venezuela's Maduro Begins Third Term Amid Contested Election

Venezuela's Maduro Begins Third Term Amid Contested Election

Venezuela Katarina Hall | 1.10.2025 12:27 PM Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a controversial third term on Friday, despite...

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Katarina Hall

Janet Yellen's Short-Term Thinking Could Cost the U.S. Big

Janet Yellen's Short-Term Thinking Could Cost the U.S. Big

National Debt Jared Dillian | 1.10.2025 1:00 PM Janet Yellen gets low marks from most financial experts for her term as Treasury Secretary. The...

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Jared Dillian

Misinformation Expert's "Citation to Fake, AI-Generated Sources in His Declaration … Shatters His Credibility with This Court"

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Eugene Volokh

Trump's Latest Defeat Is One of Many Decisions That Suggest SCOTUS Won't Rubber-Stamp His Agenda

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Jacob Sullum

TikTok Took a Beating at the Supreme Court

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Robby Soave

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Becerra v. Braidwood Management

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Jonathan H. Adler

President-Elect Trump's New White Paper on Conflicts of Interest

President-Elect Trump's New White Paper on Conflicts of Interest

Josh Blackman | 1.10.2025 2:31 PM In January 2017, President-Elect Trump held a press conference and released a conflict of interest policy. In...

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Josh Blackman

Georgia Man Sues Glynn County Police After He Was Arrested for Refusing To Give ID

Georgia Man Sues Glynn County Police After He Was Arrested for Refusing To Give ID

Police Abuse C.J. Ciaramella | 1.10.2025 2:16 PM A Georgia man is suing the Glynn County Police Department after he was arrested for refusing to...

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C.j. Ciaramella

Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence

Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence

California Matt Welch | 1.10.2025 2:56 PM Let us first stipulate that Los Angeles city and county, as well as the entire Golden State, could have...

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Matt Welch

2024 Was the Hottest Year On Record

2024 Was the Hottest Year On Record

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 1.10.2025 3:35 PM It's official. 2024 was the hottest year in the instrumental record. How hot? Last year the global...

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Ronald Bailey

Tyler Cowen: Why Do We Refuse To Learn From History?

Tyler Cowen: Why Do We Refuse To Learn From History?

History Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe | 1.10.2025 2:24 PM Why are we forgetting history's lessons? We're told in school that we study history so...

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Zach Weissmueller

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Politics John Ross | 1.10.2025 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the...

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John Ross

Attorneys May Have to Ask Expert Witnesses "Whether They Have Used AI in Drafting Their Declarations and What They Have Done to Verify Any AI-Generated Content"

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Eugene Volokh

Can New York Enter A Final Criminal Judgement Against Trump While The Federal Removal Action Is Still Pending?

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Josh Blackman

Los Angeles Zoning Laws Pushed People and Homes Toward Fire-Prone Areas

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Jack Nicastro

Girls May Have Been Hit Hardest by Pandemic Learning Loss

Girls May Have Been Hit Hardest by Pandemic Learning Loss

Pandemic Emma Camp | 1.9.2025 3:16 PM It's no secret that months of pandemic-era lockdowns led to dramatic learning loss among American children....

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Emma Camp

Some Legal Questions About Greenland, Puerto Rico, and Alberta

Josh Blackman | 1.10.2025 1:07 AM I realize many of the things that Trump says have no chance of becoming reality. But it is foolish to ignore him....

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Josh Blackman

Trump Goes 0-2 In The Span of About 30 Minutes

Trump Goes 0-2 In The Span of About 30 Minutes

Josh Blackman | 1.10.2025 12:01 AM The first few months of the Trump Administration felt like a marathon run at a sprint pace. It was nonstop...

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Josh Blackman

Nate Silver on "The Rise and Fall of 'Fact-Checking'"

Nate Silver on

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.9.2025 8:34 AM From Silver's Substack newsletter yesterday: So, the news is that Facebook is eliminating a...

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Eugene Volokh

"Florida Woman Convicted of Civil Rights Conspiracy Targeting Pregnancy Resource Centers"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.9.2025 8:01 AM From a Justice Department statement, released Dec. 10 but just posted on Westlaw: Gabriella Oropesa,...

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Eugene Volokh

What It Takes to Allege "Actual Malice" in #TheyLied Libel-by-Accusation-of-Sexual-Assault Claims

What It Takes to Allege

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.9.2025 8:01 AM The factual allegations from an earlier iteration of the case: Tallman … lives in the city of...

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Eugene Volokh

Man's Assault Claim Against Woman Who Defended Man's Ex-Girlfriend Loses to Defense-of-Others Defense

Man's Assault Claim Against Woman Who Defended Man's Ex-Girlfriend Loses to Defense-of-Others Defense

Self-Defense Eugene Volokh | 1.9.2025 12:38 PM In Judge Wendy Beetlestone's opinion today in León v. Hanoch , the parties were attorney coworkers;...

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Eugene Volokh

Fee Award in Judicial Watch's Georgia Open Records Act Lawsuit Against Fani Willis

Fee Award in Judicial Watch's Georgia Open Records Act Lawsuit Against Fani Willis

FOIA Eugene Volokh | 1.9.2025 2:10 PM From Friday's decision by Fulton County (Ga.) Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in Judicial Watch v....

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Eugene Volokh

A Failed State

A Failed State

California Liz Wolfe | 1.9.2025 9:30 AM Wildfires continue to burn in California: Overnight, the fires in and around Los Angeles continued to...

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Liz Wolfe

"One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide."

David Bernstein | 1.9.2025 6:54 PM In a tweet last year (that I just came across), the Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide, long...

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David Bernstein

Brickbat: Spiked

Brickbat: Spiked

Public schools Charles Oliver | 1.9.2025 4:00 AM Prosecutors in Florida have charged John Trevor Steele, a physical education teacher at Jennings...

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Charles Oliver

Today in Supreme Court History: January 9, 1919

Today in Supreme Court History: January 9, 1919
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Josh Blackman

Second Amendment Roundup: The Court Should Grant Cert in Snope

Second Amendment Roundup: The Court Should Grant Cert in Snope

Stephen Halbrook | 1.9.2025 8:10 PM Four Second Amendment petitions were distributed for the Court's conference on Friday January 10.  I just...

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Stephen Halbrook

2024's Unprecedented Rise in Homelessness Shows the Tension Between Free Shelter and Free Movement

2024's Unprecedented Rise in Homelessness Shows the Tension Between Free Shelter and Free Movement

Homelessness Christian Britschgi | 1.9.2025 6:30 AM Heavyweight libertarian economist Milton Friedman's famous observation was that you can't have...

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Christian Britschgi

An Urgent Meeting of the Fact-Check Legion of Doom

An Urgent Meeting of the Fact-Check Legion of Doom

Social Media Robby Soave | 1.9.2025 2:10 PM Fact-checkers, assemble! The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) held an emergency meeting on...

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Robby Soave

Regulations Are Driving Up Ride-Sharing Prices in Washington, D.C.

Regulations Are Driving Up Ride-Sharing Prices in Washington, D.C.

Washington Jack Nicastro | 1.9.2025 7:00 AM Washington, D.C., was once one of the most ride-sharing-friendly cities in America. Nowadays, the city...

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Jack Nicastro

A Shopping List for a Free-Range Family

A Shopping List for a Free-Range Family

Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy | From the February 2025 issue Enjoy the fruits of capitalism with The Goods, a regular series highlighting products...

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Lenore Skenazy

The Great Joanne Eisen

The Great Joanne Eisen

firearms policy David Kopel | 1.9.2025 1:15 PM Earlier this week, my longtime coauthor Dr. Joanne D. Eisen passed away. In this post, I'd like to...

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David Kopel

Alvin Bragg's Misbegotten 'Election Interference' Case Against Trump Ends With a Whimper

Alvin Bragg's Misbegotten 'Election Interference' Case Against Trump Ends With a Whimper

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 1.9.2025 2:35 PM Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced on Friday for...

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Jacob Sullum

Meet Pierre Poilievre, the Front-Runner To Be Canada's Next Prime Minister

Meet Pierre Poilievre, the Front-Runner To Be Canada's Next Prime Minister

Canada Fiona Harrigan | 1.9.2025 4:40 PM Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as Canadian prime minister on Monday , ending his nine-year...

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Fiona Harrigan

Talking to the Justices About References

Talking to the Justices About References

Josh Blackman | 1.8.2025 10:27 PM ABC News reports, "Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Donald Trump by phone Tuesday to...

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Josh Blackman

Biden's Infrastructure Bills Leave a Legacy of Big Spending and Little Payoff

Biden's Infrastructure Bills Leave a Legacy of Big Spending and Little Payoff

Biden Administration Joe Lancaster | 1.8.2025 4:35 PM When President Joe Biden vacates the White House later this month, talk will turn to his...

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Joe Lancaster

America's Arctic Troops in Greenland Go To Diversity Training

America's Arctic Troops in Greenland Go To Diversity Training

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 1.8.2025 4:22 PM Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, is one of the loneliest U.S. military...

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Matthew Petti

Brickbat: Window Pain

Brickbat: Window Pain

Taliban Charles Oliver | 1.8.2025 4:00 AM The Taliban has banned windows in residential buildings to prevent people from seeing women inside. The...

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Charles Oliver

Zuck Finds His Spine

Zuck Finds His Spine

Facebook Liz Wolfe | 1.8.2025 9:42 AM A late mea culpa: "After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how...

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Liz Wolfe

Today in Supreme Court History: January 8, 1973

Today in Supreme Court History: January 8, 1973
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Josh Blackman

American Public Has High Hopes for New Trump Administration

American Public Has High Hopes for New Trump Administration

Donald Trump J.D. Tuccille | 1.8.2025 7:00 AM Having soured on lame-duck President Joe Biden, Americans are anticipating the inauguration of his...

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J.d. Tuccille

Defamation Lawsuit Over Statements Related to 2020 Georgia Ballot Counting Controversy Dismissed

Defamation Lawsuit Over Statements Related to 2020 Georgia Ballot Counting Controversy Dismissed

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.8.2025 4:33 PM From Pick v. Raffensperger , decided Nov. 22 by Judge Eleanor Ross (N.D. Ga.), but only posted several...

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Eugene Volokh

5th Cir. Says More on When Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Drug Users Is Unconstitutional

5th Cir. Says More on When Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Drug Users Is Unconstitutional

Guns Eugene Volokh | 1.8.2025 5:27 PM From Monday's U.S. v. Daniels decision, written by Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Judge Don...

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Eugene Volokh

Thursday Open Thread Will Be Moved to Friday Open Thread

Thursday Open Thread Will Be Moved to Friday Open Thread
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Eugene Volokh

Will 2025 Be the Year of U.S. Fiscal Sanity?

Will 2025 Be the Year of U.S. Fiscal Sanity?

Economy Veronique de Rugy | 1.9.2025 12:01 AM The arrival of a new presidential administration invokes new beginnings and a break from the past....

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Veronique De Rugy

FERC Not Required to "Second Guess" State Energy Choices Under NEPA

FERC Not Required to

Energy & Environment Jonathan H. Adler | 1.8.2025 6:00 PM Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in Citizens Action Coalition of...

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Jonathan H. Adler

Are Young People Depressed Because of What They Were Taught in College?

Higher Education John Stossel | 1.8.2025 5:20 PM Colleges went mad. They charge students big bucks and then make them feel guilty. My new video...

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John Stossel

The Laken Riley Act is Unjust - and a Trojan Horse

Immigration Ilya Somin | 1.8.2025 7:24 PM Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act (LRA), in a 264-159 vote. This...

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Ilya Somin

9th Cir. En Banc Upholds Oregon's Ban on Surreptitious Recordings of Conversations

9th Cir. En Banc Upholds Oregon's Ban on Surreptitious Recordings of Conversations

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.8.2025 3:28 PM An excerpt from yesterday's en banc decision, written by Judge Morgan Christen, in Project Veritas v....

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Eugene Volokh

Midweek Midday Open Thread

Midweek Midday Open Thread
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Eugene Volokh

Decrying First Amendment Threat, FIRE Will Defend Pollster Whom Trump Sued for 'Consumer Fraud'

Decrying First Amendment Threat, FIRE Will Defend Pollster Whom Trump Sued for 'Consumer Fraud'

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 1.8.2025 10:15 AM After Donald Trump sued pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register under Iowa's Consumer...

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Jacob Sullum

Texas Cop Chases Prostitution Suspect, Causes Car Accident, Gets Immunity

Texas Cop Chases Prostitution Suspect, Causes Car Accident, Gets Immunity

Police Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.8.2025 11:15 AM Houston police officer Ricardo Corral is not legally liable for crashing his police cruiser into...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Justin Trudeau's 'One Regret' Is Not Implementing Ranked Choice Voting in Canada

Justin Trudeau's 'One Regret' Is Not Implementing Ranked Choice Voting in Canada

Voting Eric Boehm | 1.8.2025 2:15 PM As he heads for the exit, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his "one regret" is not overhauling the...

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Eric Boehm

Douglas Irwin: Why Trump's Tariff Plans Are Dangerous

Douglas Irwin: Why Trump's Tariff Plans Are Dangerous

Free Trade Nick Gillespie | 1.8.2025 11:00 AM HD Video Download "Tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary," says Donald Trump, who made...

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Next-Generation Nuclear Energy Developer Sues Federal Regulators

Nuclear Power Jeff Luse | 1.8.2025 3:22 PM A lawsuit recently filed by Utah, Texas, and Last Energy (a microreactor company) is challenging a...

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Jeff Luse

Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook's Rogue Fact-Checkers

Facebook Robby Soave | 1.7.2025 5:26 PM A new era is dawning at Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that third-party fact-checking...

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"FIRE to Defend Veteran Pollster J. Ann Selzer in Trump Lawsuit over Outlier Election Poll"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.7.2025 3:30 PM Just saw this announcement from FIRE; very glad to hear it. I copy below my explanation from Dec. 18...

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Why We Are Still Arguing About the Health Effects of Moderate Drinking

Why We Are Still Arguing About the Health Effects of Moderate Drinking

Alcohol Jacob Sullum | 1.8.2025 12:01 AM Even moderate drinking could give you cancer, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned last week. But according...

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5th Circuit Reaffirms That Prosecuting a Marijuana User for Illegal Gun Possession Was Unconstitutional

5th Circuit Reaffirms That Prosecuting a Marijuana User for Illegal Gun Possession Was Unconstitutional

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 1.7.2025 3:35 PM The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit this week reaffirmed its conclusion that the federal...

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More on Birthright Citizenship and Undocumented Immigrants

More on Birthright Citizenship and Undocumented Immigrants

Immigration Ilya Somin | 1.7.2025 4:28 PM The incoming Trump administration plans to deprive children of undocumented immigrants of birthright...

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Is Threatening to Kill Jews Generally—with No Person or Institution Specifically Named—Punishable?

Is Threatening to Kill Jews Generally—with No Person or Institution Specifically Named—Punishable?

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.7.2025 8:01 AM From People v. Farca , decided last week by California Court of Appeal Justice Tracie Brown, joined by...

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A Test Suite for Proposals to Restrict "Doxing"

A Test Suite for Proposals to Restrict

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.7.2025 11:47 AM The term "doxing" is not well defined, but is often used broadly to refer to publicly disclosing a...

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Prof. Michael McConnell on The Supreme Court's Religion Docket

Prof. Michael McConnell on The Supreme Court's Religion Docket

Religion and the Law Eugene Volokh | 1.7.2025 11:27 AM I'm delighted to be able to pass along this item from my Stanford colleague Prof. Michael...

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FLASHBACK: Glenn Greenwald: Pro-Israel sentiment in the U.S. is at least as bad for freedom of speech as Islamist terrorists murdering cartoonists

FLASHBACK: Glenn Greenwald: Pro-Israel sentiment in the U.S. is at least as bad for freedom of speech as Islamist terrorists murdering cartoonists

David Bernstein | 1.7.2025 6:32 PM My post from a decade ago is now behind a Washington Post paywall, but I reprint it below: Apparently, the real...

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The Best of Reason: The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk

The Best of Reason: The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk

Elon Musk Brian Doherty | 1.7.2025 6:11 PM This week's featured article is "The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk" by Brian Doherty. This audio was...

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Today in Supreme Court History: January 7, 1972

Today in Supreme Court History: January 7, 1972
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Josh Blackman

Brickbat: Wrong To Repair

Brickbat: Wrong To Repair

Homeowners Charles Oliver | 1.7.2025 4:00 AM St. Louis officials are investigating after residents say the city billed them for home repairs they...

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Why Building a Lot of 'Affordable' Housing Is Bad News for Affordability

Why Building a Lot of 'Affordable' Housing Is Bad News for Affordability

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 1.7.2025 11:00 AM Happy Tuesday and Happy New Year! With the cost of housing ever-present in the public...

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Christian Britschgi

With U.S. Steel Decision, Biden Turned His Back on Opposing Monopolies

With U.S. Steel Decision, Biden Turned His Back on Opposing Monopolies

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 1.7.2025 11:30 AM As he signed a sweeping executive order in July 2021 intended to crack down on anticompetitive business...

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Eric Boehm

Why Did the D.C. Circuit Make It More Difficult to Find Opinions? -- Redux

Why Did the D.C. Circuit Make It More Difficult to Find Opinions? -- Redux

Judiciary Jonathan H. Adler | 1.7.2025 12:11 PM Last fall, I noticed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit had redesigned portions of...

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What's Happening to Canada?

What's Happening to Canada?

Canada Liz Wolfe | 1.7.2025 9:30 AM Trudeau resigns: I cannot believe I am being forced to care about Canada right now. They call their cops...

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Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target

Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target

Free Speech Matt Welch | 1.7.2025 1:22 PM There is a plausible theory of the case for the dramatic rise in illiberal, speech-stultifying wokeness...

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Matt Welch

California Schools Stay Open Despite Plummeting Enrollment

California Schools Stay Open Despite Plummeting Enrollment

Education Aaron Garth Smith | 1.7.2025 7:00 AM With a projected budget shortfall of $95 million next year, Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD)...

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Aaron Garth Smith

Why the Race and Gender Politics of White Dudes for Harris Failed

Why the Race and Gender Politics of White Dudes for Harris Failed

Politics Peter Suderman | From the February 2025 issue Leading up to the 2024 election, pundits, pollsters, and political operatives discussed the...

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Peter Suderman

Challenge to California Policy Limiting Teachers' Disclosure to Parents of Student's Changed Gender Identity …

Challenge to California Policy Limiting Teachers' Disclosure to Parents of Student's Changed Gender Identity …

Parental Rights Eugene Volokh | 1.7.2025 3:52 PM From Mirabelli v. Olson , decided today by Judge Roger Benitez (S.D. Cal.), the introduction and...

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Second Amendment Roundup: Supreme Court Considering Arms Ban Petitions on Friday

Second Amendment Roundup: Supreme Court Considering Arms Ban Petitions on Friday

Stephen Halbrook | 1.7.2025 9:35 PM The Supreme Court has distributed two important cases for its conference of January 10.  One is Snope v....

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Stephen Halbrook

How Political Ignorance Helped Cause the January 6 Attack and Trump's Subsequent Political Comeback

How Political Ignorance Helped Cause the January 6 Attack and Trump's Subsequent Political Comeback

Political Ignorance Ilya Somin | 1.6.2025 4:33 PM   Today is the fourth anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and - ironically...

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Ilya Somin

Hail to the Chief!

Hail to the Chief!

Josh Blackman | 1.6.2025 9:56 PM It is a new era in Texas. Chief Justice Nathan Hecht stepped down in December after a distinguished career that...

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Josh Blackman

Surgeon General Gins Up a Questionable Drinking Causes Cancer Scare

Surgeon General Gins Up a Questionable Drinking Causes Cancer Scare

Alcohol Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2025 5:30 PM Our national health scold, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory on his way out of office,...

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Ronald Bailey

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