5 Years of the Journal of Free Speech Law, 150 Published Articles
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Justice Department Opines That Federal Law Allows Carrying Guns in Post Offices for Self-Defense
A short excerpt from the long Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel Aug. 12 memo to the Attorney General: You… The…
Read at source →New in SCOTUSBlog: The justices should regularly sit on the lower courts
The chief justice should ask each circuit justice to preside over one en banc oral argument of his or her circuit.
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This ICE Office Detains People for Days in Overcrowded Holding Cells
ICE's standards say these cells shouldn't be used to confine people for more than 12 hours. But that's not how it works…
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A Limited Supreme Court Win for Trump on Mail-In Ballots
But the legal fighting will continue in the lower courts.
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Voting by Mail
Plus: A 911 glitch, the disappearance of the menhaden, the deportation of a Navy sailor's dad, and more...
Read at source →New in Civitas Outlook: "SCOTUS's Immigration Rulings Chastise Trump on Morality"
"Mullin v. Doe should have been resolved on legal grounds without the need to virtue signal about immigration."
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Should Deadly Self-Defense Be Tortious if Need for It Could Have Been Avoided "by Relinquishing the Exercise of [a] Right"?
The Restatements are influential works by the American Law Institute—an organization of lawyers, judges, and…
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 25, 1998
8/25/1998: Justice Lewis Powell dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 25, 1998 appeared first on…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene on MAGA, Congress, and the Two-Party System
"I spent five years of my life the most pissed off I could ever be because I hated all of it," the former congresswoman…
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Brickbat: King Bee
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is being asked to decide whether South Charleston can ban beekeeping within…
Read at source →How Long Did Justice Jackson's "Kafkaesque Nightmare" Dissent Hold Up Trump v. California?
In a future writing, I propose a mechanism whereby six Justices can force the release of any pending case.
Read at source →No Preliminary Injunction Against Applying Birth Sex Policy to Intersex Plaintiff's Global Entry Card …
when plaintiff has passport that won't expire until 2032.
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How Did America Get $40 Trillion in Debt?
Plus: Trump's trade war with Canada, the growing backlash against data centers, and calls to censor journalists in…
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This YouTuber Got Kicked Out of the Flock Convention. So He Ran His Own Surveillance.
Benn Jordan wants the snoopers to be “a little unsettled.”
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Trump Threatens U.S. Relationship With Canada as Trade Talks Collapse
Canada is one of our largest trading partners. The president imposed 50 percent tariffs on cars, wigs, and hockey…
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Study: Most Mealtime Screen Time Is TV, Not Social Media
What a new study of mealtime screen time does—and does not—say.
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Forget the Population Bomb. The New Fear Is a Population Implosion.
Overpopulation panic is sooooo 20th Century! Welcome to the era of depopulation dread.
Read at source →AI Hallucinations in State Farm Insurance Outside Lawyers' Filings
From L.A. Times (Rebecca Ellis) Wednesday: As part of an insurance dispute over a fire-damaged Carson home, attorneys…
Read at source →"Signs of AI Authorship in Federal Appellate Opinions"
"Dozens of published circuit opinions show signs of AI writing. If courts are using AI, that's promising—and worth…
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Economic Isolation
Plus: Socialist real estate, return of the carrier pigeon, and more...
Read at source →Jacob Mchangama on Frederick Douglass's Views on Free Speech During the Civil War
An extremely interesting post (Mchangama, as many of you know, is a historian of free speech, among other things):…
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Would Muslim Prayer Room at Public High School Violate Establishment Clause?
Yes, Judge John Milton Younge (E.D. Pa.) suggested Friday in Hiester v. School District of Philadelphia: The crux of…
Read at source →Renaming Streets "Cesar Chavez Boulevard" Didn't Violate First Amendment
From 1 Community Compact v. City of Fresno, decided Friday by California Court of Appeal Justice Jennifer Detjen,…
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1 in 5 Americans Still Need Government Permission To Work
Occupational licensing raises costs and limits mobility without improving safety.
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 24, 1946
8/24/1946: Justice James McReynolds dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 24, 1946 appeared first on…
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Brickbat: What the Flock
Police in Brookfield, Wisconsin, made a high-risk traffic stop on Interstate 94 after a Flock Safety camera flagged a…
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Trump Imposes Harmful and Illegal Section 338 Tariffs Against Many Canadian Imports
Section 338 is a long-defunct part of the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
Read at source →AI Freezes The Scholarly Voice
AI trains on your voice at a particular point of time, and stunts future development.
Read at source →Ben & Jerry's Lawsuit Over "Social-Mission"-Related Contract Related to Its Earlier Sale
A summary from Reuters (Jonathan Stempel) Friday: A federal judge on Friday dismissed major portions of a Ben &…
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Reconciling Hayek and Mill's Divergent Defenses of Liberty
As Cass Sunstein points out, Hayek and Mill had widely divergent rationales for liberty. But the two can be reconciled.
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 23, 2007
8/23/2007: John Yates, aboard the Miss Katie boat, threw fish overboard to avoid an inspection. He was prosecuted for…
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Post-9/11 Fear Grew the Surveillance State. 25 Years Later, It's Still Growing.
The U.S. government responded in ways that are so integrated into daily life that we no longer recognize them.
Read at source →Check Out the National High School Law Review, Vol. II
It's a project of Studium; Studium's Constitutional Law Advisory Board includes Prof. and National Constitution Center…
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 22, 1998
8/22/1998: On August 22, 1998, Barry Black led a Ku Klux Klan rally in Carroll County, Virginia. The Supreme Court…
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This Mamdani-Backed Bill Would Kill Jobs, Boost Unions, and Make Deliveries More Expensive
The misleadingly named "Delivery Protection Act" would require companies like Amazon and FedEx to directly hire…
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