Politics
Federal Appeals Court Says Texas' Ten Commandments Law Isn't Indoctrination
The 5th Circuit upheld a controversial law requiring Texas schools to display the Ten Commandments.
California Law Generally Requiring Federal Law Enforcement Officers to Display ID Violates Supremacy Clause
So the Ninth Circuit held yesterday.
The Trump Administration Might Send Afghan Refugees to Danger in Congo
About 1,100 Afghans currently stranded at a military base in Qatar could be relocated to the crisis-addled Afr...
Rubio Falsely Accuses Iranian Exiles of Being Soleimani's Nieces
The State Department and ICE claimed to have caught Islamic Republic nepo babies “enjoying a lavish lifestyle....
ABA: Law Schools Can Satisfy "Cross-Cultural Competency" Standard By Criticizing DEI
"Schools are free to determine the content of those sessions, even (if they so choose) teaching on the harms o...
What Would It Take to Tame the "Shadow Docket"?
Those who don't like how the Supreme Court handles requests for interim relief might like solutions to the pro...
Prosecution for Threats to Kill Muslims (and Blacks, Immigrants, and People from India) Can Go to Jury
From U.S. v. Demeo, decided Tuesday by Judge Sheri Polster Chappell (M.D. Fla.); compare the recent "See MAGA,...
Marijuana Rescheduled
Plus: skyway socialism, reconsider the lobster, D.C.'s urban growth, and more...
No Libel in "Murder for Hire Conspiracy Case Results in Conviction" Headline,
even though (as the full article explained) the conviction was for attempt to commit stalking, not for conspir...
Today in Supreme Court History: April 23, 1985
4/23/1985: Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 23,...
A Rare SCOTUS Case That Pitted Thomas Against Alito
Plus: Does Trump expect to lose the birthright citizenship case?
Brickbat: Hard at Work
A federal judge sentenced former Baltimore City Schools Police Officer Lawrence Smith to one year and one day...
Globalization Made Howard Lutnick a Billionaire. Now He's Railing Against It as Trump's Commerce Chief.
Globalization helped make everyone else much richer, too.
UCLA Students Protest FedSoc Event With DHS General Counsel James Percival
"Why'd you invite Nazis? Jew to Jew, Shame on You."
"Sotomayor Drops The Ball on Obamacare" And The Shadow Docket
A flashback to New Year's Eve 2013 in Chapter 15 of "Unraveled."
Fourth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Disclosing Names of Perceived Afghan Collaborators
The order came in a peculiar context—a civil lawsuit over the custody of a child born in Afghanistan—but its l...
Injunction Against Publicly Identifying Pseudonymous Litigants Is Content-Based Prior Restraint,
and thus presumptively a First Amendment violation (though here the presumption was rebutted by national secur...
Laura Loomer Loses Defamation Suit Against Bill Maher Over "Who's Trump Fucking? … Might Be Laura Loomer" Lines
From today's decision by Judge James S. Moody, Jr. (M.D. Fla.) in Loomer v. Maher: Plaintiff Laura Loomer is a...