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Remember When The Obama Administration Pressured Baker Hostetler To Drop Its Representation In House of Representatives v. Burwell?

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Josh Blackman

Wednesday Open Thread

Wednesday Open Thread
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Eugene Volokh

Republicans May Regret Undermining Judicial Independence

Republicans May Regret Undermining Judicial Independence

Rule of law Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2025 12:01 AM Under the U.S. Constitution, federal judges "hold their offices during good behaviour" and receive...

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Jacob Sullum

"Misguided Anti-Racism Campaign Cancels College Sondheim Production"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 3.12.2025 8:01 AM From Northwestern law professor Andrew Koppelman (The Hill) (this is the unexpurgated version that I...

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Eugene Volokh

Congress and DOGE Can Find Spending Cuts at the Department of Defense

Congress and DOGE Can Find Spending Cuts at the Department of Defense

Defense J.D. Tuccille | 3.12.2025 7:00 AM The growing distance between the United States and its allies in NATO is an overdue nudge to European...

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J.d. Tuccille

Brickbat: Masshole Mayor's Money

Brickbat: Masshole Mayor's Money

Local Government Charles Oliver | 3.12.2025 4:00 AM The Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General says the city of Everett wrongly paid Mayor...

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Charles Oliver

Today in Supreme Court History: March 12, 1889

Today in Supreme Court History: March 12, 1889
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Josh Blackman

Peter Beinart Has Gone Full Antisemite

Peter Beinart Has Gone Full Antisemite

David Bernstein | 3.12.2025 8:48 AM The basic story of the holiday of Purim, which starts Thursday night, is this. The King of the Persian empire...

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David Bernstein

Congress Just Made It Harder for Congress To Block Trump's Tariffs

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Eric Boehm

District Court Rules Trump Violated Constitution by Usurping Congress's Spending Power

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Ilya Somin

Rand Paul: Businesses and Workers Think Tariffs Are a Bad Idea

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Robby Soave

Mel Gibson Controversy Highlights a Bigger Scandal: Many Americans Lose Their Gun Rights for No Good Reason

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Jacob Sullum

SCOTUS DOGE: The Wall of Receipts for President Trump's Three Appointees

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Josh Blackman

How Many Americans Have Died of COVID-19?

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Ronald Bailey

Climate Activists Are Passing Laws To Tax the Past

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John Stossel

The EPA Announces a Fool's Errand: Reconsidering the Endangerment Finding

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Jonathan H. Adler

Trump Declares Tesla Vandals 'Domestic Terrorists'

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Joe Lancaster

New Draft Article: "Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment"

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Orin S. Kerr

Justice Department Doubles Down Against Google

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Jack Nicastro

The House's Budget Bill Cuts Earmarks, but Spending Will Be Going Up Anyway

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Jeff Luse

Study: Age-Verification Laws Don't Work

Study: Age-Verification Laws Don't Work

Pornography Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.12.2025 11:42 AM Laws requiring porn websites to verify user ages and block people under age 18 have been...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

DOE Set To Die

DOE Set To Die

Reason Roundup Liz Wolfe | 3.12.2025 9:30 AM Department of Education cut in half: As of Tuesday, the Education Department is about half the size it...

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Liz Wolfe

Rachel Barkow: Did Trump and Biden Turn Pardons Into a Corrupt Joke?

Pardons Billy Binion | 3.12.2025 11:00 AM HD Video Download This week's guest is Rachel Barkow, a professor of law at New York University and the...

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Billy Binion

Government Goons Destroy Tree House

Government Goons Destroy Tree House

Bureaucracy Autumn Billings | 3.12.2025 11:15 AM A Los Angeles homeowner has conceded defeat in his fight against the city to keep a tree house on...

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Autumn Billings

Pennsylvania School District Must Disclose DEI Training Materials, Though It Claimed They Were a "Trade Secret"

Pennsylvania School District Must Disclose DEI Training Materials, Though It Claimed They Were a

Education Eugene Volokh | 3.11.2025 8:01 AM In Trethewey v. Downingtown Area School Dist. , a Feb. 26 Pennsylvania appellate court decision by...

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Eugene Volokh

Nevada Math Prof Alleges Discipline for "Voic[ing] Concerns About … the Math Department … Lower[ing] Its Curriculum Standards"

Nevada Math Prof Alleges Discipline for

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 3.11.2025 11:25 AM A short excerpt from the >10,000-word Jensen v. Brown , decided yesterday by Ninth Circuit Judge...

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Eugene Volokh

South Carolina City's Restriction on Loud "Vulgar" Music Violates First Amendment

South Carolina City's Restriction on Loud

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 3.11.2025 5:24 PM From Moshoures v. City of North Myrtle Beach , decided today by Fourth Circuit Judge Toby Heytens,...

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Eugene Volokh

Libel Lawsuit Brought by R. Kelly's Personal Assistant Thrown Out on "Actual Malice" Grounds

Libel Lawsuit Brought by R. Kelly's Personal Assistant Thrown Out on

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 3.11.2025 3:27 PM From Copeland v. Netflix, Inc. (D. Del.), decided today by Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas,...

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Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: Let's See Some ID

Brickbat: Let's See Some ID

Gun Control Charles Oliver | 3.11.2025 4:00 AM The Colorado House of Representatives has passed a bill to raise the minimum age to buy ammunition...

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Charles Oliver

Do Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin Work?

Do Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin Work?

COVID-19 Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2025 2:45 PM This week marks five years since March 13, 2020, the day President Donald Trump declared a national...

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Ronald Bailey

"My Dearest, Angelica"

Josh Blackman | 3.11.2025 6:24 PM I treasure the Hamilton musical on so many levels. In addition to the wonderful score and fluid lyrics, the story...

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Josh Blackman

Why Some American Businesses Want More Tariffs

Why Some American Businesses Want More Tariffs

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 3.11.2025 12:05 PM Many American businesses are understandably unsettled by the higher costs and general uncertainty that...

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Eric Boehm

Sixth Circuit Rejects Qualified Immunity for Kim Davis for a Third Time

Sixth Circuit Rejects Qualified Immunity for Kim Davis for a Third Time

Sixth Circuit Jonathan H. Adler | 3.11.2025 11:01 AM Not everyone agreed with the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that the...

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Jonathan H. Adler

Mahmoud Khalil, the Great Rorschach Test

Mahmoud Khalil, the Great Rorschach Test

Immigration Liz Wolfe | 3.11.2025 9:33 AM Shit's getting very real at Columbia: On Saturday evening, federal immigration authorities arrested...

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Liz Wolfe

DOGE Isn't Exempt From FOIA Requests, Judge Rules

DOGE Isn't Exempt From FOIA Requests, Judge Rules

DOGE C.J. Ciaramella | 3.11.2025 2:15 PM Citing the agency's "unusual secrecy" and "substantial authority over vast swathes of the federal...

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C.j. Ciaramella

Family Guy on SCOTUS

Family Guy on SCOTUS

Josh Blackman | 3.11.2025 5:05 PM I recently wrote about a Supreme Court joke on the Simpsons. Now, Family Guy has taken on SCOTUS. In this...

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Josh Blackman

New York's Weed Nightmare

Marijuana Liz Wolfe | 3.11.2025 2:30 PM When former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced sexual harassment allegations that threatened to end his...

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Liz Wolfe

Why the Supreme Court's "Order" In The USAID Case Was An Advisory Opinion (Updated)

Why the Supreme Court's

Josh Blackman | 3.11.2025 3:43 PM I wrote a series of posts about the Supreme Court's decision in the  USAID case. Most of the critics focused on...

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Josh Blackman

The Israel-Hamas Conflict Convinced College Adminstrators To Turn Away From Politics, New Report Shows

The Israel-Hamas Conflict Convinced College Adminstrators To Turn Away From Politics, New Report Shows

College Emma Camp | 3.11.2025 4:53 PM Just a few years ago, it felt like every college in America was eagerly releasing statements about political...

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Emma Camp

Judicial Conference Recommends 71 New Judgeships, Including Two on the Ninth Circuit

Judicial Conference Recommends 71 New Judgeships, Including Two on the Ninth Circuit

Judiciary Jonathan H. Adler | 3.11.2025 1:17 PM The Judicial Conference of the United States has again asked Congress to create additional...

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Jonathan H. Adler

First Circuit Denies Trump Administration Motion for Stay of Universal Injunction Against Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

First Circuit Denies Trump Administration Motion for Stay of Universal Injunction Against Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

Standing Jonathan H. Adler | 3.11.2025 11:55 AM Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rejected the Trump Administration's motion for...

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Jonathan H. Adler

Why Do I Keep Finding Padlocked Playgrounds in New York City?

Why Do I Keep Finding Padlocked Playgrounds in New York City?

Children Liz Wolfe | 3.11.2025 6:30 AM "Play is the work of the child," wrote Maria Montessori, pushing back against the perennial tendency of...

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Liz Wolfe

Preserve the Mercy of Pardon Power, Even If Presidents Misuse It

Preserve the Mercy of Pardon Power, Even If Presidents Misuse It

Criminal Justice C.J. Ciaramella | From the April 2025 issue The end of a presidential administration always brings with it a last-minute pardon...

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C.j. Ciaramella

A Nevada Math Professor Who Was Disciplined for Criticizing Curriculum Changes Will Get His Day in Court

A Nevada Math Professor Who Was Disciplined for Criticizing Curriculum Changes Will Get His Day in Court

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.11.2025 5:50 PM In 2019, the Nevada System of Higher Education decided that students who needed remedial math...

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Jacob Sullum

J.D. Vance Blames Zoning, Immigrants for High Housing Costs

J.D. Vance Blames Zoning, Immigrants for High Housing Costs

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 3.11.2025 2:40 PM Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: But...

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Christian Britschgi

Trump and California Are Set To Duke It Out Over Environmental Policy Again

Trump and California Are Set To Duke It Out Over Environmental Policy Again

Deregulation Jeff Luse | From the March 2025 issue California was one of President Donald Trump's largest foes during his first term; the state...

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Jeff Luse

Second Amendment Roundup: Rehearing En Banc Sought in 5th Circuit Suppressor Case

Second Amendment Roundup: Rehearing En Banc Sought in 5th Circuit Suppressor Case

Stephen Halbrook | 3.11.2025 9:24 PM A petition for rehearing en banc has been filed seeking review of the Fifth Circuit's panel decision in United...

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Stephen Halbrook

The Best of Reason: Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?

The Best of Reason: Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?

Middle East Jack Pearson and Matthew Petti | 3.11.2025 6:10 PM This week's featured article is "Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?" by Jack...

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Jack Pearson

Today in Supreme Court History: March 11, 1936

Today in Supreme Court History: March 11, 1936
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Josh Blackman

Is it Constitutional To Deport Immigrants for Political Speech?

Is it Constitutional To Deport Immigrants for Political Speech?

Immigration Jack Nicastro | 3.10.2025 4:07 PM Immigrant students who express sympathy for Hamas will have their visas and green cards revoked so...

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Jack Nicastro