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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 :...
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...
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...
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,...
Entertainment Eric Boehm | From the February 2025 issue Cabaret begins with the Kit Kat Klub's flamboyant master of ceremonies enticing the...
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...
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...
Entertainment Joe Lancaster | From the February 2025 issue In September 1975, two California women each tried unsuccessfully to assassinate...
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...
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...
Venezuela Katarina Hall | 1.10.2025 12:27 PM Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a controversial third term on Friday, despite...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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;...
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....
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...
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...
Public schools Charles Oliver | 1.9.2025 4:00 AM Prosecutors in Florida have charged John Trevor Steele, a physical education teacher at Jennings...
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...
Homelessness Christian Britschgi | 1.9.2025 6:30 AM Heavyweight libertarian economist Milton Friedman's famous observation was that you can't have...
Social Media Robby Soave | 1.9.2025 2:10 PM Fact-checkers, assemble! The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) held an emergency meeting on...
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...
Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy | From the February 2025 issue Enjoy the fruits of capitalism with The Goods, a regular series highlighting products...
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...
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...
Canada Fiona Harrigan | 1.9.2025 4:40 PM Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as Canadian prime minister on Monday , ending his nine-year...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Immigration Ilya Somin | 1.7.2025 4:28 PM The incoming Trump administration plans to deprive children of undocumented immigrants of birthright...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Politics Peter Suderman | From the February 2025 issue Leading up to the 2024 election, pundits, pollsters, and political operatives discussed the...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...