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Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: Sign Here, or Else

Police Charles Oliver | 11.20.2024 4:00 AM An Oklahoma City police officer has been placed on paid leave pending investigation of an incident in...

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Charles Oliver

Reference in Sentencing to Defendant's Disliking "Judeo and Christian Values Because They Are Good for Civilization" Didn't Violate the First Amendment

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 11.20.2024 8:01 AM From U.S. v. Melzer , decided last week by Second Circuit Judges Susan Carney, Joseph Bianco, and...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: November 20, 1910

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Josh Blackman

Planned Obsolescence

Reason Roundup Liz Wolfe | 11.20.2024 9:30 AM Education Secretary chosen: Yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick for heading up...

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Liz Wolfe

Brazilian President Blames Markets for Inequality. He's Wrong.

Economics Jack Nicastro | 11.20.2024 9:45 AM Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva railed against free markets at the Group of 20 (G20)...

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Jack Nicastro

California Bucks Alaska and Missouri by Rejecting Minimum Wage Ballot Initiative

Economics Jack Nicastro | 11.20.2024 10:30 AM Californians have voted against increasing the state's minimum wage, despite raising that of fast...

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Jack Nicastro

Mining Is Safer, Cleaner, and More Ethical in America. So Why Do Environmentalists Stand in the Way?

Energy & Environment John Stossel | 11.20.2024 4:10 PM People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council...

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John Stossel

Part XIII: No Law Respecting An Establishment Of Religion

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Josh Blackman

That Time Solicitor General Fried Redacted The Word "Plenary" From a Printed SCOTUS Reply Brief With A Marker

Josh Blackman | 11.20.2024 11:36 PM Attorney General Meese is a living legend. At the age of 92, he has made more contributions to the law than...

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Josh Blackman

Federal Courts Still Lack Authority to Issue Advisory Opinions

Judiciary Jonathan H. Adler | 11.20.2024 7:43 PM It is not often that federal court opinion begins by referencing the Judiciary Act of 1789, but...

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Jonathan H. Adler

Canada Considers Constitutionality of Sex Work Laws

Sex Work Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.20.2024 11:30 AM Do Canada's sex work laws violate its constitution? A case argued before the country's Supreme...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Abolish the Commerce Department

Trump Administration Eric Boehm | 11.20.2024 1:00 PM If the Senate goes along with President-elect Donald Trump's pick, then financier Howard...

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Eric Boehm

Democrats Did Themselves No Favors by Veering Hard to the Left

Democratic Party J.D. Tuccille | 11.20.2024 7:00 AM Democrats frequently refer to Republicans as "extremists" and even "anti-American" for the...

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J.d. Tuccille

Amanda Knox: 'I Have Felt Utterly Exploited' by True Crime

Criminal Justice Billy Binion | 11.20.2024 1:15 PM HD Video Download Today's guest is Amanda Knox, an activist, writer, and host of the podcast ...

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Billy Binion

Trump Wants To Ease Rules for Self-Driving Cars

Self-driving vehicles Kevin Garcia-Galindo | 11.20.2024 11:15 AM After railing against self-driving cars on the campaign trail, President-elect...

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Kevin Garcia-Galindo

Trump's Grammatical Time Machine

Politics Jay Stooksberry | 11.20.2024 1:40 PM If Back to the Future 4 ever becomes a reality, the plot should feature President-elect Donald Trump...

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Jay Stooksberry

Federalist Society Panel on Race in the Law after SFFA

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David Bernstein

Texas State Ed Board Approves Curriculum That Emphasizes Biblical Teachings

Public schools Emma Camp | 11.20.2024 2:15 PM Could Texas public elementary school classrooms soon be teaching lessons on the Bible? This week, the...

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Emma Camp

Trump's Energy Picks Are Refreshingly Competent

Trump Administration Jeff Luse | 11.20.2024 3:08 PM President-elect Donald Trump has selected North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum and Chris...

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Jeff Luse

Beer Lobby Wants Restrictions and Higher Taxes on Intoxicating Hemp Products

Prohibition Joe Lancaster | 11.20.2024 1:55 PM A trade group representing the American brewing industry released proposals on how Congress should...

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Joe Lancaster

Apparent AI Hallucinations in AI Misinformation Expert's Court Filing Supporting Anti-AI-Misinformation Law

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 11.19.2024 8:01 AM Minnesota recently enacted a law aimed at restricting misleading AI deepfakes aimed at influencing...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: November 19, 1969

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Josh Blackman

Hoover History Skills Academy for High School Students (July 21 to Aug. 1, 2025)

Eugene Volokh | 11.19.2024 6:50 PM From my colleague and historian Stephen Kotkin at Hoover (formerly at Princeton): As part of the Hoover History...

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Eugene Volokh

The Bureau of Prisons' Casual Cruelty to Families of Those Who Die Behind Bars

Criminal Justice C.J. Ciaramella | 11.19.2024 7:00 AM On June 13, 2019, Mandy Turner received the call every family member of someone in prison...

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C.j. Ciaramella

Photo: The First Commercial Spacewalk

Space Jason Russell | From the December 2024 issue In September, four astronauts ventured farther away from Earth (870 miles) than any human since...

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Jason Russell

The New FCC Chairman's Agenda Contradicts Conservative Principles

FCC Jacob Sullum | 11.20.2024 12:01 AM "The censorship cartel must be dismantled," Brendan Carr declared two days before President-elect Donald...

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Jacob Sullum

Part XII: The Free Exercise of Religion

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Josh Blackman

West Virginia Voters Passed a Constitutional Amendment Prohibiting Assisted Suicide

Election 2024 Eric Boehm | 11.19.2024 10:15 AM West Virginians narrowly approved a ballot question to constitutionally prohibit people from seeking...

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Eric Boehm

The Clock Is Running Out for Student Loan Forgiveness

Student Loans Emma Camp | 11.19.2024 9:45 AM Since Kamala Harris' defeat in the 2024 Presidential election, the Biden Administration's student loan...

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Emma Camp

Will Doug Burgum Be Donald Trump's Housing Czar?

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 11.19.2024 1:50 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week, the newsletter takes...

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Christian Britschgi

Mass Deportations

Immigration Liz Wolfe | 11.19.2024 9:29 AM This is what we're doing now, I guess: At 4 a.m. on Monday night, President-elect Donald Trump responded...

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Liz Wolfe

Trump Targets Birthright Citizenship and Calls for Military Role in Deportations

Immigration Fiona Harrigan | 11.19.2024 2:10 PM On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump shared a post written earlier this month by Tom Fitton,...

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Fiona Harrigan

My amicus cert petition in the horseracing case

Sasha Volokh | 11.19.2024 11:33 AM There's been a lot of recent legal action involving the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority. The Fifth...

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Sasha Volokh

Families Need Affordable Housing, but New York Residents Use Red Tape To Block Development

Affordable Housing Daryl James and Bob Belden | 11.19.2024 2:40 PM Zoning cops have a knack for blocking affordable housing, but in Troy, New York,...

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Daryl James

The Best of Reason: Abolish Amtrak, the FDA, and the TSA

Government Waste Katherine Mangu-Ward, Jason Russell, Jeffrey A. Singer, and Robby Soave | 11.19.2024 6:48 PM This week features an assortment of...

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Katherine Mangu-Ward

Brickbat: No Room at the Inn

Plastic Pollution Charles Oliver | 11.19.2024 4:00 AM Effective January 1, 2025, New York will ban hotels with 50 or more rooms from providing...

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Charles Oliver

We Are Going To Learn More About Matt Gaetz's Sex Life Than We Wanted

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 11.19.2024 5:20 PM The fact that former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz lacks relevant legal experience should be enough...

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Jacob Sullum

Trump's Pick To Run the FCC Wants To Restrict the Editorial Discretion of Social Media Platforms

FCC Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2024 4:35 PM Announcing his choice of Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Sunday,...

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Jacob Sullum

Why Suing LLCs in Federal Court Under Diversity Jurisdiction Can Be So Complicated

Civil Procedure Eugene Volokh | 11.18.2024 9:07 AM From Wednesday's decision by District Judge Cogan (E.D.N.Y.) in Coward v. Nat'l Railroad...

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Eugene Volokh

Monday Open Thread

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Eugene Volokh

The McDonald's Election

Fast Food Liz Wolfe | 11.18.2024 9:44 AM Making America Healthy Again, one Big Mac at a time: First it was the Kamala Harris claim that she worked...

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Liz Wolfe

Brickbat: Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer

Teachers Charles Oliver | 11.18.2024 4:00 AM Marcella Cadle, a high school agricultural science teacher in Lebanon, Missouri, has been charged with...

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Charles Oliver

Social Security Approaches Its Day of Reckoning

Social Security J.D. Tuccille | 11.18.2024 7:00 AM Social Security is very popular with Americans. Large majorities of Democrats and Republican...

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J.d. Tuccille

Part XI: Freedom of Speech

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Josh Blackman

Today in Supreme Court History: November 18, 1811

Politics Josh Blackman | 11.18.2024 7:00 AM 11/18/1811: Justice Gabriel Duvall takes judicial oath. Professor David P. Currie said that an...

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Josh Blackman

After Wrongful Diagnosis, Texas CPS Took This Baby Away

Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy | 11.18.2024 5:45 PM Last year, on Christmas Eve, Jacqueline Morales Boatright gave birth to a daughter, Evelyn. It...

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Lenore Skenazy

In the Seventh Circuit, Procedural Red Herrings Threaten the Second Amendment

Stephen Halbrook | 11.18.2024 9:29 PM The Seventh Circuit heard oral argument on November 12 in Viramontes v. County of Cook, Illinois, a challenge...

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Stephen Halbrook

How Elon Musk and DOGE Can Deliver on Smaller Government

Law enforcement Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.18.2024 5:17 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

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Matt Welch

Infographic: How Republicans and Democrats View Federal Agencies

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Reason Staff

College Baseball Coach's Defamation Case, Alleging School Said He Was Fired Because He Acted in Racist Ways, Allowed to Go Forward

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 11.18.2024 12:38 PM From Judge David Alan Ezra's decision in Penders v. St. Edward's Univ. (W.D. Tex.), decided in...

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Eugene Volokh

1% Swing in Vote Would Have Changed Presidential, House Results

Eugene Volokh | 11.18.2024 3:00 PM I expect this is obvious to most of our readers, but I thought I'd just flag it again, given the occasional talk...

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Eugene Volokh

Is a Slur Just an Insult, or (in Context) a Slanderous Implication of Incompetence?

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 11.18.2024 8:01 AM From Fagan v. Faulkner , decided Thursday by the Mississippi Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice...

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Eugene Volokh

Texas Bill Takes Aim at Online Speech About Abortion Pills

Abortion Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.18.2024 12:45 PM A bonkers new Texas bill would ban a bunch of activities related to abortion, including taking...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Will America Make the Same Mistakes as Britain in the Middle East?

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 11.18.2024 2:30 PM The Middle East is a problem. Our enemies there are on the march, and our friends are nervous. We...

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Matthew Petti

Last chance to vote for "Mesaĝo en botelo" on YouTube!

Sasha Volokh | 11.18.2024 1:09 PM Last week, I posted about a new Esperanto film I made, which I submitted to an Esperanto film festival (the 6th...

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Sasha Volokh

How Scientific American's Departing Editor Helped Degrade Science

Science Jesse Singal | 11.18.2024 2:54 PM Earlier this week, Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American , the oldest...

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Jesse Singal

European Commission Fines Meta for Serving Consumers

European Union Jack Nicastro | 11.18.2024 12:30 PM The European Commission recently fined Meta 798 million euros—about $841 million—for "tying"...

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Jack Nicastro

Pentagon Fails 7th Audit in a Row but Hopes To Pass by 2028

Defense Spending Joe Lancaster | 11.18.2024 3:15 PM The Pentagon has failed its annual financial audit for the seventh year in a row. This means...

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Joe Lancaster

Today in Supreme Court History: November 17, 1880

Politics Josh Blackman | 11.17.2024 7:00 AM 11/17/1880: The United States and China sign treaty that protects Chinese laborers residing in the...

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Josh Blackman

Map: Pearl Clutchers in Hot Spring County

Maps Matthew Petti | From the December 2024 issue Is the film Night of the Living Dead too racy for daytime television? What about double...

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Matthew Petti

A Tribute to Gene Meyer

Josh Blackman | 11.16.2024 11:54 PM The 2024 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention is a wrap. I already wrote about our change of venue...

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Josh Blackman

My Apologies for an Erroneous Post Faulting a N.Y. Times Article

Eugene Volokh | 11.16.2024 10:16 PM I erroneously put it up before rechecking it, and fortunately caught the error quickly and deleted the post....

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Eugene Volokh

Free Speech Unmuted: Free Speech in European (and Other) Democracies, with Prof. Jacob Mchangama

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 11.16.2024 10:25 PM How does European free speech law differ from American free speech law, when it comes to "hate...

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