Brickbat: Wrong Door
Farmington, New Mexico, officials have agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a family whose father……
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Prettifying Executions Does Not Make Them Quicker or More Reliable
Lethal injection aims to disguise the brutal reality of capital punishment by dressing it in medical garb.
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Justice Alito Gives a Fuller Explanation of His Suncor Recusal
One of several worthwhile tidbits in Justice Alito's Wall Street Journal interview.
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Obama Campaigns for Abdul El-Sayed as Republicans Sound the Alarm
Former President Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail for Abdul El-Sayed as Michigan emerges as one of the…
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Trump Keeps Contradicting the 'National Security' Rationale for Banishing Disfavored Journalists
Attorney General Todd Blanche, who complains that CNN's coverage is "almost 100 percent negative towards the…
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'I Never Lie': Audio Recordings Raise New Questions About Cornell 7 Allegations
Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss updates in the Cornell 7 scandal.
Read at source →After More Than Three Years, Judge Newman's Case Is Transferred To The Eleventh Circuit
The case was only transferred after Chief Judge Moore extended Newman's suspension for another year.
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The 'World's Oldest' Bartender's Very Illegal Basement Bar
A recent profile of 103-year-old Irv Koch's basement bar highlights all the ways that modern zoning codes crush novel…
Read at source →Lurching Through The Audition Trap
Do we rewards judges who audition or who refuse to audition?
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These Minnesota Parents Were Censored at a Public Meeting for Saying School Employees' Job Titles
"You can't talk about the superintendent," a Foley Public School Board official told Blake and Katy DeMarais when they…
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Live Reason Roundtable 10th Anniversary Show!
Join Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Matt Welch as they celebrate a decade of the show with a…
Read at source →The "Application for an Extension and the Querulous Opposition Continue the Path of Bikeshedding or … Parkinson's Law of Triviality"
From Magistrate Judge James M. Wicks (E.D.N.Y.) in Lask v. Sorid last month: ORDER granting 91 Motion for Extension of…
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Sam Altman Says 'Some Bad Things' Will Happen With AI. That Doesn't Mean We Should Stop It.
Progress has always required accepting risk.
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The SEC Is Watching American Investors' Trades. That's a Privacy Nightmare.
The SEC should not keep a searchable record of Americans’ lawful trades, much less make them pay for it.
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If Manchester City Weren't (Basically) Owned by the UAE, Their Scandal Would Be a Lot Less Complicated
Plus: Nick Saban is wrong again, and could this be the last year of MLB’s playoff format?
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The Energy Department Is Offering $4.2 Billion in Loans to Nuclear Projects in Ohio and Pennsylvania
Private investors are already pouring billions into America’s nuclear sector. The Trump administration wants a piece of…
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Alito Talks Retirement
Plus: The Supreme Court weighs a local government’s lawsuit against oil companies over global climate change.
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French Tantrum
Plus: Scavenging in NYC, Claude "solved" humor, the era of philanthropy, and more...
Read at source →Amicus Brief Asking Court to Consider Lawyers' Free Speech Rights, in Eastman v. State Bar
I thought I'd pass along the amicus brief that I just filed yesterday on behalf of Prof. Rebecca Roiphe (an… The post…
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The New Dark Ages Is Long on Alarm, Short on Scientific Literacy
The perils of blaming screens for everything
Read at source →Today in Supreme Court History: October 6, 2010
10/6/2010: Snyder v. Phelps is argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 6, 2010 appeared first on…
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Brickbat: Cold as ICE
A man in Evanston, Illinois, was injured after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents mistakenly detained him…
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Justice Alito on Originalism
His recent Wall Street Journal column on this subject makes some interesting points, but raises more questions than…
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Are the Cornell 7 Being Tried on Social Media?
Plus: Tennessee botches the execution of Christa Pike, and Sam Altman says the benefits of AI are worth the risks.
Read at source →"Federal Judges Receive Life Tenure—Not a Life Sentence"
"Public criticism is not for everyone. But if it's too much to take, you can always resign."
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The Rebirth of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama's new book tackles transhumanism, the urge to struggle, and what happens when people jump willingly…
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A SCOTUS Petition Argues That Pot Growers, Like Pot Smokers, Cannot Be Categorically Disarmed
The case involves a federal law that criminalizes gun possession by people convicted of nonviolent felonies.
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The Bond Market Doesn't Trust the Treasury
To judge from rising 10-year interest rates, the bond market doesn't seem to expect Trump to bring inflation or…
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Who Will Own the Moon?
Property rights in space will attract investment, prevent space serfdom, and allow competition to flourish off-world.
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Whistleblower Francis Haugen Trashes Facebook's Flawed Fact-Checkers
Frances Haugen, the woman whose Facebook revelations inspired The Social Reckoning, argues that the real danger of…
Read at source →Whistleblower Frances Haugen Trashes Facebook's Flawed Fact-Checkers
Frances Haugen, the woman whose Facebook revelations inspired The Social Reckoning, argues that the real danger of…
Read at source →My New Lawfare Article on Why "The President Doesn't Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import Bans"
Many of the same constitutional and other constraints apply as with tariffs.
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A Visit to a Gun Store Shouldn't Put You on a Government List
Gun registry bans might not be enough to protect gun owners from lists built from license-plate data.
Read at source →I Want It All
Occasionally, I hear people make arguments in favor of constitutional rights claims by arguing that the Constitution…
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