Brickbat: Ask Questions Later
St. Louis County, Missouri, Police Chief Juan Cox says he does not know why police officers shot at a car full… The…
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Making Sense Of The Chief Justice's Tango In The Ballroom Case
It was the Chief, and not KBJ, who was holding up the case. Was he trying to flip ACB's vote?
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Trump Wants the FCC To Punish His Enemies
Plus: the escalating war with Iran, Meta's $17 billion settlement, and Milo Yiannopoulos gets deported.
Read at source →Strictly Ballroom: Justice Kavanaugh Defeats Chief Justice Roberts
The Court rejects the D.C. Circuit's erroneous "aesthetic injury" standing precedents and the Chief can only wax about…
Read at source →Supreme Court Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Go Forward, at Least for Now
The majority didn't decide whether the construction violated federal law, only that plaintiffs' purely aesthetic…
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The 8th Circuit Lets the Government Retroactively Repair Unconstitutional Gun Cases Against Pot Smokers
A SCOTUS petition argues that the practice, which allows a judicial finding of dangerousness based on a preponderance…
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A Liberal Think Tank and an Air Force Major Are Trump's Latest Targets for Speech Policing
Trump threatened the Center for American Progress with a defamation lawsuit, while Jason Watson faces a court martial…
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Cops in Polk County, Georgia, Fatally Shoot Petting Zoo Donkey
The donkey's owner says officers wandered onto her property without permission and shot the small donkey because they…
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What Craigslist and Backpage Can Tell Us About the Meta Settlement
It doesn't matter if you're right. If you don't cave, the government might stop at nothing to destroy you.
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Startpage Search Engine Output Omitting Certain Search Results?
Startpage is a search engine that promotes itself as protecting user privacy; it gathers results via Google and Bing,…
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Trump's Trade War With Canada Is Costly, Absurd, and Unfunny
American consumers and businesses are being taken advantage of by Canadians who are…offering to sell us aluminum, oil,…
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Rebuke or Punishment
Plus: Gustavo Gordillo's lies, measles among the Amish, Milo Yiannopoulos deported, and more...
Read at source →Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn't Apply to Foreign Speech by Foreigners
The case is a decision by Judge Susan Illston (N.D. Cal.) Friday in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (see also… The post…
Read at source →Lawsuit Over Outing of Gay Saudi Residents by Lufthansa in Saudi Arabia Can Proceed
[1.] First, the facts from an earlier decision in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG: John Doe and Robert Roe are… The post…
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Anthropic Win Reaffirms Private Sector's Right To Put Conditions on Government Dealings
Trump administration officials didn’t try to hide that they were punishing the company for its views.
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 31, 1995
8/31/1995: Students at Santa Fe Independent School District voted to allow a student to say a prayer at football…
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The Belated Backlash Against Flock Cameras
Americans are starting to recognize the dangers of pervasive surveillance by automated license plate readers.
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Brickbat: Burning Rubber
The California Energy Commission (CEC) unanimously approved new tire-efficiency rules that are expected to ban about 70…
Read at source →New York Times Recycles Same Old Story About Northern District of Texas
Yet the article inexplicably makes no mention of judge shopping in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Read at source →What J.D. Vance Gets Wrong About Hamilton (and Markets and Milton Friedman)
The Vice President's argument for more governmental intervention in the economy is based upon a morass of…
Read at source →An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare
Recently, Justice Jackson warned about a "Kafkaesque nightmare" at the Supreme Court. Well, I had my own.
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967
8/30/1967: Justice Thurgood Marshall takes the oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967 appeared…
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Inside Venezuela's El Helicoide Prison: How Dissident Jesús Armas Endured Torture and Outlasted Maduro
For helping prove that Maduro lost the 2024 election, Jesús Armas spent more than a year in Venezuela’s most-feared…
Read at source →First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules
Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:……
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Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations Violate the First Amendment
The decision goes further than other similar recent rulings.
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967
8/29/1967: Justice Neil Gorsuch's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967 appeared first on…
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Lawmakers Want To Stop Kids From Nicknaming Their Pokémon
The Safer GAMING Act would silence minors in every online game by default—and violate the First Amendment.
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9/11 Turbocharged America's Worst Foreign Policy Impulses—but Didn't Change Its Direction
The United States' shift toward aggressive interventionism was well underway before the 2001 attacks.
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Milo Yiannopoulos Wanted Millions Deported. He Didn't Mean Himself.
"I mean bad immigrants," Yiannopoulos said in a 2016 interview with Joe Rogan. "I don't mean handsome, charming,…
Read at source →Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Remove N.Y. Hush Money Non-Reporting Prosecution to Federal Court Came Too Late
From the long opinion today by Judge Alvin Hellerstein (S.D.N.Y.) in People v. Trump: Defendant Donald J. Trump,…
Read at source →The Fourth Amendment and Laws Requiring Video Recording Inside Stores
A new Ninth Circuit ruling raises a number of hard issues.
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The CIA Is Making AI-Generated Reports for Local Police
The CIA has been using artificial intelligence to write “open source intelligence” analyses, which are being…
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Judge Says Trump's Clampdown on Anthropic Violates the First Amendment
A judge ruled the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was an unlawful, “arbitrary,” and “capricious”…
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What the Twin Revolts Against Flock and Data Centers Tell Us About the Power and Risks of Populism
What the simultaneous revolts against Flock and data centers can tell us about the power and risks of populism
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"This Case Begins with a Viral Video" (and Goes on to Involve "the Anti-Doxing League")
From today's decision by Judge Kyle Dudek (M.D. Fla.) in Noshirvan v. Couture (for a 2023 decision stemming from the……
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