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Today in Supreme Court History: April 12, 1945

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Josh Blackman

Your Tribalism Is Dumb

Your Tribalism Is Dumb

Politics Andrew Heaton | From the May 2025 issue My father visited me once while I was working for Congress, and I took him to the D.C. Armory to...

yesterday 9

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Andrew Heaton

Neither Trump Nor The A.P. Controls Our Words

Neither Trump Nor The A.P. Controls Our Words

Donald Trump Jay Stooksberry | 4.12.2025 7:00 AM The Associated Press recently won in court, challenging President Donald Trump's decision to...

yesterday 6

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Jay Stooksberry

Offices and Officers of the Constitution Part VI: The Ineligibility Clause

Offices and Officers of the Constitution Part VI: The Ineligibility Clause

Josh Blackman | 4.11.2025 9:13 AM I am pleased to announce that the South Texas Law Review has published the sixth installment in the...

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Josh Blackman

"Climate Activist Found Guilty in Defacing Degas Exhibit at National Gallery of Art"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.11.2025 8:01 AM From Tuesday's Justice Department press release: Timothy Martin, 55, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was...

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Eugene Volokh

Friday Open Thread

Friday Open Thread
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Eugene Volokh

No Closed Trial, Pseudonymity at Trial, or Audio-Only Testimony for Billion-Dollar Maine Lottery Winner

No Closed Trial, Pseudonymity at Trial, or Audio-Only Testimony for Billion-Dollar Maine Lottery Winner

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.11.2025 9:28 AM Some short excerpts from yesterday's long decision by Judge John Woodcock (D. Me.) in Doe v. Smith :...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: April 11, 1862

Today in Supreme Court History: April 11, 1862
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Josh Blackman

Should A Federal District Court Hold Contempt Proceedings While An Emergency Appeal Is Ongoing?

Should A Federal District Court Hold Contempt Proceedings While An Emergency Appeal Is Ongoing?

Josh Blackman | 4.11.2025 3:35 PM The Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. J.G.G. divested Judge Boasberg of the jurisdiction to further adjudicate...

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Josh Blackman

"The Supreme Court Is Not Cowering Before Trump on the Shadow Docket"

Executive Power Eugene Volokh | 4.11.2025 11:37 AM A very interesting analysis at Executive Functions by Prof. Jack Goldsmith (Harvard), a leading...

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Eugene Volokh

"North Texas Man Who Threatened to Shoot and Kill ICE Agents Charged in Federal Court"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.11.2025 8:33 AM From Monday's Justice Department press release: A North Texas man who threatened to shoot and kill...

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Eugene Volokh

No Closed Trial, Pseudonymity at Trial, or Audo-Only Testimony for $1B Maine Lottery Winner

No Closed Trial, Pseudonymity at Trial, or Audo-Only Testimony for $1B Maine Lottery Winner

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.11.2025 9:28 AM Some short excerpts from yesterday's long decision by Judge John Woodcock (D. Me.) in Doe v. Smith :...

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Eugene Volokh

Two Cheers for Extended Tax Cuts and an IRS in Chaos

Two Cheers for Extended Tax Cuts and an IRS in Chaos

Taxes J.D. Tuccille | 4.11.2025 7:00 AM With Tax Day rapidly approaching, I can't be the only person who chuckles over reports about layoffs and...

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J.d. Tuccille

SCOTUS Rules on Deportation Case

SCOTUS Rules on Deportation Case

Supreme Court Liz Wolfe | 4.11.2025 9:34 AM Supreme Court rules on deportation: The Court, in an unsigned order, told the Trump administration that...

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Liz Wolfe

American Prisons Don't Work. California Is Trying Something That Might.

American Prisons Don't Work. California Is Trying Something That Might.

Prisons Steven Greenhut | 4.11.2025 7:30 AM Maybe it's just a sign of our angry and divided times, but I'm finding that critics often don't read...

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Steven Greenhut

The Fantastical Showerhead Executive Order

The Fantastical Showerhead Executive Order

Trump Administration Jonathan H. Adler | 4.11.2025 9:45 AM President Trump issued a flurry of additional executive orders and presidential...

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Jonathan H. Adler

Brickbat: Getting Charged Up

Brickbat: Getting Charged Up

Tesla Charles Oliver | 4.11.2025 4:00 AM New York state Sen. Patricia Fahy (D–Albany) has introduced a bill to strip Tesla Motors of its permits...

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Charles Oliver

Free Trade Expert Takes Down the Best Arguments for Tariffs

Tariffs Eric Boehm | 4.11.2025 12:35 PM Can you avoid the cost of tariffs by buying only American-made products? Will tariffs promote domestic...

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Eric Boehm

Justice Kavanaugh Stays District Court Order in Ohio Ballot Initiative Dispute

Justice Kavanaugh Stays District Court Order in Ohio Ballot Initiative Dispute

Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 4.11.2025 1:06 PM On Wednesday evening, in Yost v. Brown, Justice Brett Kavanaugh entered a stay of a district...

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Jonathan H. Adler

Review: Authoritarianism Backfires in the Latest Dune Installment

Review: Authoritarianism Backfires in the Latest Dune Installment

Entertainment Emma Camp | From the May 2025 issue If you're looking to watch another dispatch from the perilous sand-covered planet Arrakis, you...

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Emma Camp

ICE Retracts Threat To Stop Illegal 'Ideas' at the Border

ICE Retracts Threat To Stop Illegal 'Ideas' at the Border

Immigration Matthew Petti | 4.11.2025 1:30 PM The Trump administration insists that its crackdown on pro-Palestinian students is not an attack on...

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Matthew Petti

Derek Thompson: Democrats Must Change

Derek Thompson: Democrats Must Change

Democratic Party Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe | 4.11.2025 12:50 PM HD Video Download Derek Thompson, a senior writer at The Atlantic and...

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Zach Weissmueller

Georgia Police Tried To Arrest a Paralyzed Man for Kicking Down a Woman's Door and Assaulting Her

Georgia Police Tried To Arrest a Paralyzed Man for Kicking Down a Woman's Door and Assaulting Her

Police Abuse Emma Camp | 4.11.2025 4:40 PM Last month, police officers in College Park, Georgia detained Charles Read for felony assault charges,...

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Emma Camp

A Ruling Against Mahmoud Khalil Highlights Marco Rubio's Vast Power To Deport People for Their Opinions

A Ruling Against Mahmoud Khalil Highlights Marco Rubio's Vast Power To Deport People for Their Opinions

Immigration Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2025 5:30 PM Jamee E. Comans, an immigration judge in Louisiana, today ruled that the Trump administration had met...

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Jacob Sullum

Review: Netflix's Mo Captures the Absurdity of the U.S. Immigration System

Review: Netflix's Mo Captures the Absurdity of the U.S. Immigration System

Entertainment Bekah Congdon | From the May 2025 issue In its second and final season, Netflix's  Mo  continues to ease heartbreak with humor as Mo...

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Bekah Congdon

Mississippi Is Ditching Its Income Tax. Other States Should Follow.

Mississippi Is Ditching Its Income Tax. Other States Should Follow.

Mississippi Alex Rosado | 4.11.2025 11:32 AM After months of politicians fighting, Mississippi has joined a small club of nine other states in...

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Alex Rosado

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

John Ross | 4.11.2025 4:08 PM New on the Short Circuit podcast: We recorded an episode at our tenth anniversary show last week. Hear from Eugene...

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John Ross

Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Trump To 'Facilitate' the Return of Wrongly Deported Man

Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Trump To 'Facilitate' the Return of Wrongly Deported Man

Immigration Damon Root | 4.11.2025 1:05 PM For the second time in a week, all nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court have rejected a sweeping...

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Damon Root

The Chief Justice "Facilitates" Another Shadow Docket Compromise In Noem v. Garcia

The Chief Justice

Josh Blackman | 4.10.2025 8:38 PM Another day, another shadow docket compromise. This evening, the Court issued a short three paragraph per curiam...

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Josh Blackman

The Tariff Madness Isn't Over

The Tariff Madness Isn't Over

Donald Trump Ilya Somin | 4.10.2025 8:10 PM When Donald Trump paused many of his awful "Liberation Day" tariffs yesterday, there was some...

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Ilya Somin

Brickbat: Unfree Speech Zone

Brickbat: Unfree Speech Zone

Abortion Charles Oliver | 4.10.2025 4:00 AM In England, anti-abortion activist Livia Tossici-Bolt has been found guilty of breaking a law banning...

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Charles Oliver

Trump's Car Tariffs Could Drive Slovakia Into Russia's Arms

Trump's Car Tariffs Could Drive Slovakia Into Russia's Arms

Tariffs Miroslav Hanušniak | 4.10.2025 6:30 AM On March 26, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would levy a 25 percent tariff...

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Miroslav Hanušniak

Donald Trump Deregulates Showerheads…Again

Donald Trump Deregulates Showerheads…Again

Energy & Environment Christian Britschgi | 4.10.2025 2:55 PM On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that repeals...

thursday 5

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Christian Britschgi

Supreme Court Rules Trump Administration Must "Facilitate" Return of Illegally Deported Salvadoran Migrant

Supreme Court Rules Trump Administration Must

Immigration Ilya Somin | 4.10.2025 9:06 PM   Tonight, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Trump Administration must "facilitate" the return of...

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Ilya Somin

Supreme Court Upholds Order Telling Trump Administration to "Facilitate" Return of Armando Abrego Garcia from El Salvador

Supreme Court Upholds Order Telling Trump Administration to

Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 4.10.2025 7:36 PM This evening the Supreme Court effectively denied the Trump Administration's request that it...

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Jonathan H. Adler

Sick and Tired of the Pronoun Police

Sick and Tired of the Pronoun Police

Media Criticism Robby Soave | 4.10.2025 3:36 PM The Trump administration has made it clear that they will not respond to emails from reporters who...

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Robby Soave

Postnatal Drug Tests Turn Mothers Into Felons

Postnatal Drug Tests Turn Mothers Into Felons

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the May 2025 issue Five years after giving birth to a baby girl in 2019, Mississippi mother Brandy Moore...

thursday 10

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Jacob Sullum

Ksenia Karelina, Imprisoned in Russia for Donating $51 to a Pro-Ukraine Charity, Is Freed

Ksenia Karelina, Imprisoned in Russia for Donating $51 to a Pro-Ukraine Charity, Is Freed

Russia Billy Binion | 4.10.2025 1:23 PM An American citizen detained in Russia was released on Thursday in an early morning prisoner exchange....

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Billy Binion

The Utah Supreme Court Rules That Sexual Assault Victims Cannot Be Forced to Testify at "Rape Shield" Hearings

The Utah Supreme Court Rules That Sexual Assault Victims Cannot Be Forced to Testify at

crime victims Paul Cassell | 4.10.2025 7:26 PM Today the Utah Supreme Court agreed with my argument that a defendant cannot compel a rape victim to...

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Paul Cassell

Today in Supreme Court History: April 10, 1967

Today in Supreme Court History: April 10, 1967
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Josh Blackman

End Kidney Deaths Act Reintroduced in Congress

End Kidney Deaths Act Reintroduced in Congress

Organ transplants Ilya Somin | 4.10.2025 10:15 AM On Tuesday, GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and Democratic Rep. Josh Harder reintroduced the End...

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Ilya Somin

These Reforms Would Simplify Our Messy Tax Code—and Level the Playing Field

These Reforms Would Simplify Our Messy Tax Code—and Level the Playing Field

Taxes Veronique de Rugy | 4.10.2025 11:00 AM Republicans claim they are slashing government, but they're about to explode the budget deficit to...

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Veronique De Rugy

Trade War With China

Trade War With China

Reason Roundup Liz Wolfe | 4.10.2025 9:31 AM We're doing a trade war: It's just not quite as extensive as previously feared. President Donald Trump...

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Liz Wolfe

Bill Would Require Federal Prisons To Notify Families of Serious Illness and Death

Bill Would Require Federal Prisons To Notify Families of Serious Illness and Death

Prisons C.J. Ciaramella | 4.10.2025 12:47 PM For years, families have complained of cruelty from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) when their...

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C.j. Ciaramella

Alex Garland's Warfare Refuses To Soften the Blow of Combat

Alex Garland's Warfare Refuses To Soften the Blow of Combat

Movies Peter Suderman | 4.10.2025 11:15 AM Night.  Quiet. Somewhere in the Middle East. Armed men in fatigues enter a structure on a residential...

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Peter Suderman

President Trump's Reduced Tariff/Taxes Are Still Unconstitutional

President Trump's Reduced Tariff/Taxes Are Still Unconstitutional

Tariffs Steven Calabresi | 4.10.2025 9:50 AM President Trump blinked today after his "Liberation Day" tariff/taxes catastrophe led to the worst S &...

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Steven Calabresi

Markets Don't Want More Coal. Trump Is Propping Up the Industry Anyway.

Markets Don't Want More Coal. Trump Is Propping Up the Industry Anyway.

Energy & Environment Jeff Luse | 4.10.2025 12:14 PM President Donald Trump's preferential treatment toward fossil fuels has backfired and left many...

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Jeff Luse

Zoning Police Come for Cape Cod Lobsterman

Zoning Police Come for Cape Cod Lobsterman

Small Business Ari Bargil and Erica Smith Ewing | 4.10.2025 9:45 AM People looking for fresh lobster know where to go on Cape Cod. For 50 years,...

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Ari Bargil

Florida Cops Arrest Transgender Woman for Using Women's Bathroom

Florida Cops Arrest Transgender Woman for Using Women's Bathroom

Culture War Autumn Billings | 4.10.2025 4:44 PM A transgender woman was arrested last month for refusing to leave the women's restroom at the...

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Autumn Billings

Tariffs Failed in the Middle East—America Shouldn't Make the Same Mistake

Tariffs Failed in the Middle East—America Shouldn't Make the Same Mistake

Tariffs Faisal Saeed Al Mutar | 4.10.2025 3:51 PM When economic anxiety strikes, protectionist politicians reach for the same dusty playbook: Slap...

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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar