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yesterday 8

Eugene Volokh

Review: Eddington Takes on the Chaotic 2020 Politics of COVID

yesterday 10

Robby Soave

Brickbat: No Bad Boys

yesterday 7

Charles Oliver

Zohran Mamdani's $5 Billion Corporate Tax Hike Threatens NYC's Status as the World's Financial Capital

yesterday 3

Filippo Borrello

Trump's Tariff Chaos Crushes Board Game Makers: 'The U.S. Is Our Least Trustworthy Trading Partner'

yesterday 1

Eric Boehm

The Long Road Home

yesterday 1

Brandan P. Buck

Palestinian Youth Movement Social Media Posts with "No Justice, No Peace" Urging Protest Outside Synagogue Are Protected Speech

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Eugene Volokh

CodePink Social Media Posts with Inverted Red Triangle Urging Protest Outside Synagogue Could Be Punishable Threats of Violence

yesterday 0

Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: October 31, 1963

yesterday 0

Josh Blackman

ICE's Mass Arrests Ensnare U.S. Citizens and Show No Signs of Stopping

yesterday 0

J.d. Tuccille

Zohranpocalypse?

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Liz Wolfe

iRobot Faces Bankruptcy After Elizabeth Warren Helped Kill $1.65 Billion Amazon Merger

yesterday 0

Joe Lancaster

Britain's Prince Andrew Taken Down by Epstein and Chinese Spy Scandals

yesterday 0

Matthew Petti

In Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia, Elites Are Alien Creatures

yesterday 0

Peter Suderman

Don't Panic Over Federal Cuts for Homeless Programs

yesterday 0

Steven Greenhut

Short Circuit: An Inexhaustive Weekly Compendium of Rulings from the Federal Courts of Appeal

yesterday 0

John Ross

Trump's National Guard Plan Edges the U.S. Closer to a Permanent Federal Police Force

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Jacob R. Swartz

How Opioid Settlement Money Turned Into a $600K Party Fund

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Mariana Trujillo

California Couple Faces $1 Million in Fines for Code Violations Committed by Their Home's Previous Owner

yesterday 0

Billy Binion

James Comey Says His Grudge-Driven Prosecution Is Unconstitutional Retaliation for His Criticism of Trump

yesterday 0

Jacob Sullum

Seventh Circuit: District Court Order to Federal Immigration Official "Infringes on the Separation of Powers"

yesterday 0

Eugene Volokh

Is "Impeding Travel for Many Students" as Part of a Protest First Amendment-Protected Speech?

yesterday 0

David Bernstein

Deplatforming Nick Fuentes Won't Stop Antisemitism

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Robby Soave

What Did A Young John Roberts Contribute To Chief Justice Rehnquist's Opinion In Dames & Moore v. Regan?

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Josh Blackman

Gender Queer, Libel by Implication, and "Truth Is Not a Complete Defense of Defamation"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 10.30.2025 8:01 AM Galdos-Shapiro, a school teacher in Great Barrington (Mass.), was questioned and briefly detained in...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: October 30, 1735

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Josh Blackman

When the Government Censored Dracula, Frankenstein, and King Kong

First Amendment Damon Root | 10.30.2025 7:00 AM Tomorrow is Halloween, so let's talk about monsters. Specifically, let's talk about the monstrous...

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Damon Root

Brickbat: Declared Dead

Social Security Charles Oliver | 10.30.2025 4:00 AM In Pace, Florida, the Social Security Administration mistakenly declared Patsy Rosher dead...

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Charles Oliver

According to Trump, He Has Already Saved 350,000 Lives by Murdering Suspected Drug Smugglers

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Jacob Sullum

Crisis on the Right as Heritage Foundation President Roberts Seems to Go Groyper

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David Bernstein

Social Media Speech "Recklessly" Jeopardizing Classmates' Sense of "Safety" by "Condon[ing]" "Forcible Family Separation by Immigration Authorities" May Be Punishable

Free Speech So argues a concurring opinion in today's Second Circuit decision in Leroy v. Livingston Manor Central School Dist., also speaking...

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Eugene Volokh

School's "Interest in Teaching Racial Sensitivity Is Not Sufficient" to Justify Punishing Student's "Free Expression Off-Campus"

Free Speech So holds the Second Circuit: "Tying a student speaker's constitutional right to free expression solely to the reaction that speech...

previous day 3

Eugene Volokh

Could the United States Unilaterally Grant Puerto Rico Independence?

Politics Puerto Rico does not have a viable path towards statehood, and it is unclear what value Commonwealth status provides to the United States....

previous day 3

Josh Blackman

The Voting Rights Act Asymmetry Comes For Staten Island

The VRA allow Democrats to challenge Republican districts, but does not allow Republicans to challenge Democratic districts. Josh Blackman | 10.30....

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Josh Blackman

America's $30 Trillion Publicly Held Debt Is 42 Times Larger Than It Was in 1980

Government Spending Veronique de Rugy | 10.30.2025 3:15 PM In 1980, America's publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8...

previous day 2

Veronique De Rugy

A Divided Fed

Federal Reserve Liz Wolfe | 10.30.2025 9:30 AM Dissent at the Fed meeting: For the second time this year, the Federal Reserve Board cut interest...

previous day 2

Liz Wolfe

A Portland Family Says Their Dad Was Wrongly Arrested by ICE. Now He's Lost in Immigration Detention.

Immigration C.J. Ciaramella | 10.30.2025 3:30 PM On October 15, Juan Barbosa Gomez and his wife arrived at Columbia Park in North Portland for...

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C.j. Ciaramella

Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Tennessee Man Over Facebook Meme

Free Speech Joe Lancaster | 10.30.2025 1:30 PM Last month, Tennessee authorities arrested a man for posting a Facebook meme, a clear violation of...

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Joe Lancaster

Progress Is Good, Actually

Book Reviews Peter Suderman | 10.30.2025 2:09 PM Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity , by Paul Kingsnorth, Thesis, 368 pages, $32...

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Peter Suderman

These Small Business Owners Explain How Trump's Tariffs Are More of an 'Existential Crisis' Than COVID

Tariffs Jack Nicastro | 10.30.2025 11:55 AM President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on $2.2 trillion worth of imported goods, claiming they...

previous day 3

Jack Nicastro

The Left's Secret Repeal of No Taxes on Tips

Taxes C. Jarrett Dieterle | 10.30.2025 12:40 PM What began as a campaign promise in Nevada became law this summer with the passage of the One Big...

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C. Jarrett Dieterle

3 Reasons Why Zohran Mamdani's City-Run Grocery Stores Will Fail

Zohran Mamdani Natalie Dowzicky | 10.30.2025 12:20 PM New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani says City Hall needs to get into the grocery...

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Natalie Dowzicky

Trump's 'Golden Dome' Missile Defense Could Cost $3.6 Trillion: Report

Defense Spending Matthew Petti | 10.29.2025 4:36 PM President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed Star Wars, promised to create...

wednesday 10

Matthew Petti

DOJ Subpoena to Gender Medicine Telehealth Provider Quashed, but Record Not Sealed

Gender Identity Eugene Volokh | 10.29.2025 3:50 PM From Judge Jamal Whitehead (W.D. Wash.) in Queerdoc, PLLC v. U.S. Dep't of Justice : On January...

wednesday 20

Eugene Volokh

First and Fourth Amendment Claims Based on Police Investigation of Gender Queer in Classroom Can Go Forward

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 10.29.2025 8:33 AM From Galdos-Shapiro v. Town of Great Barrington , decided Oct. 17 by Judge Mark Mastroianni (D. Mass...

wednesday 3

Eugene Volokh

Apparent AI Hallucinations in Filing from Two >500-Lawyer Firms

AI in Court Don't assume your firm is safe. Eugene Volokh | 10.29.2025 8:01 AM From Monday's decision by Judge Michael Simon (D. Ore.) in Green...

wednesday 2

Eugene Volokh

I Think I Know Why SCOTUS Does Not Grant Fourth Amendment Cases Anymore

Politics Search and seizure cases are very fact bound. The Court wants to set general standards. Josh Blackman | 10.29.2025 9:00 AM On October 15,...

wednesday 20

Josh Blackman

Today in Supreme Court History: October 29, 1942

wednesday 2

Josh Blackman

Emory University Senate Open Expression Committee Opinion on "Termination of Professor Due to Charlie Kirk-Related Speech"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 10.29.2025 4:03 PM From the opinion released Oct. 21, 2025: In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an Emory...

wednesday 4

Eugene Volokh

Calling Teacher "Bully," "Lunatic," "Woke," "God Complex," and "White Savior" Is Opinion and Thus Not Defamation

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 10.29.2025 5:22 PM Yesterday's Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision in MacCudden v. Johnson (Justice Joseph Donald,...

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Friday Open Thread

Eugene Volokh

Review: Eddington Takes on the Chaotic 2020 Politics of COVID

Robby Soave

Brickbat: No Bad Boys

Charles Oliver

Zohran Mamdani's $5 Billion Corporate Tax Hike Threatens NYC's Status as the World's Financial Capital

Filippo Borrello

Trump's Tariff Chaos Crushes Board Game Makers: 'The U.S. Is Our Least Trustworthy Trading Partner'

Eric Boehm

The Long Road Home

Brandan P. Buck

Palestinian Youth Movement Social Media Posts with "No Justice, No Peace" Urging Protest Outside Synagogue Are Protected Speech

Eugene Volokh

CodePink Social Media Posts with Inverted Red Triangle Urging Protest Outside Synagogue Could Be Punishable Threats of Violence

Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: October 31, 1963

Josh Blackman

ICE's Mass Arrests Ensnare U.S. Citizens and Show No Signs of Stopping

J.d. Tuccille

Zohranpocalypse?

Liz Wolfe

iRobot Faces Bankruptcy After Elizabeth Warren Helped Kill $1.65 Billion Amazon Merger

Joe Lancaster

Britain's Prince Andrew Taken Down by Epstein and Chinese Spy Scandals

Matthew Petti

In Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia, Elites Are Alien Creatures

Peter Suderman

Don't Panic Over Federal Cuts for Homeless Programs

Steven Greenhut

Short Circuit: An Inexhaustive Weekly Compendium of Rulings from the Federal Courts of Appeal

John Ross

Trump's National Guard Plan Edges the U.S. Closer to a Permanent Federal Police Force

Jacob R. Swartz

How Opioid Settlement Money Turned Into a $600K Party Fund

Mariana Trujillo

California Couple Faces $1 Million in Fines for Code Violations Committed by Their Home's Previous Owner

Billy Binion

James Comey Says His Grudge-Driven Prosecution Is Unconstitutional Retaliation for His Criticism of Trump

Jacob Sullum

Seventh Circuit: District Court Order to Federal Immigration Official "Infringes on the Separation of Powers"

Eugene Volokh

Is "Impeding Travel for Many Students" as Part of a Protest First Amendment-Protected Speech?

David Bernstein

Deplatforming Nick Fuentes Won't Stop Antisemitism

Robby Soave

What Did A Young John Roberts Contribute To Chief Justice Rehnquist's Opinion In Dames & Moore v. Regan?

Josh Blackman

Gender Queer, Libel by Implication, and "Truth Is Not a Complete Defense of Defamation"

Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: October 30, 1735

Josh Blackman

When the Government Censored Dracula, Frankenstein, and King Kong

Damon Root

Brickbat: Declared Dead

Charles Oliver

According to Trump, He Has Already Saved 350,000 Lives by Murdering Suspected Drug Smugglers

Jacob Sullum

Crisis on the Right as Heritage Foundation President Roberts Seems to Go Groyper

David Bernstein

Social Media Speech "Recklessly" Jeopardizing Classmates' Sense of "Safety" by "Condon[ing]" "Forcible Family Separation by Immigration Authorities" May Be Punishable

Eugene Volokh

School's "Interest in Teaching Racial Sensitivity Is Not Sufficient" to Justify Punishing Student's "Free Expression Off-Campus"

Eugene Volokh

Could the United States Unilaterally Grant Puerto Rico Independence?

Josh Blackman

The Voting Rights Act Asymmetry Comes For Staten Island

Josh Blackman

America's $30 Trillion Publicly Held Debt Is 42 Times Larger Than It Was in 1980

Veronique De Rugy

A Divided Fed

Liz Wolfe

A Portland Family Says Their Dad Was Wrongly Arrested by ICE. Now He's Lost in Immigration Detention.

C.j. Ciaramella

Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Tennessee Man Over Facebook Meme

Joe Lancaster

Progress Is Good, Actually