Politics
Justice Harlan's Lectures Gets A Shout-Out In Birthright Citizenship Case
Justice Gorsuch twice referenced Justice Harlan's constitutional law lecture on Wong Kim Ark.
How Capitalism Lost the Working Class
Brink Lindsey discusses the gap between mass prosperity and mass flourishing, capitalism’s crisis of inclusion...
What If the U.K. Had Free Speech Like the U.S.?
The U.K. said it would stop investigating "legal" social media posts, but free speech advocates demand more ch...
Slavery, Birthright Citizenship, and Today's Upcoming Supreme Court Oral Argument
The administration's arguments for denying birthright ctizenship to children of undocumented immigrants are at...
Illegal To Defund NPR?
Plus: Judge stops Trump's ballroom, Iran announcement incoming, NASA takes steps to go back to the moon, and m...
No Pseudonymity for Lawyer Alleging Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment and Retaliation
From Judge Ronnie Abrams yesterday in Doe v. Legal Aid Society (S.D.N.Y.): [1.] [Pseudonymity is more justifie...
EEOC May Subpoena Penn's Records as to "Jewish-Related Organizations" (and Others) in Investigation of Anti-Semitic Harassment at Penn
From Judge Gerald Pappert (E.D. Pa.) yesterday in EEOC v. Univ. of Pa.: Based on public statements by the Univ...
NASA's Artemis Program Is a Monument to Government Waste. It Can Only Go Up From Here.
Man is finally getting closer to the moon—long delayed by NASA, red tape, and political meddling.
America Has Gone More Than a Year Without a Surgeon General. Has Anyone Noticed?
Rather than debating over who should fill the role, Congress and the White House should just eliminate it alto...
Today in Supreme Court History: April 1, 2003
4/1/2003: Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April...
Brickbat: Cold and Callous
Alecia Lindsay froze to death in Anchorage, Alaska, after a 911 dispatcher failed to send help for over an hou...
Justice Jackson's Dissent, on Why Viewpoint-Based Restrictions on Professional-Client Speech May Be Permissible
A short excerpt from Justice Jackson's long solo dissent today in Chiles v. Salazar, where she argued that the...
Justice Alito: "Just out of curiosity, do you think we should ask Claude to decide this case?"
I suspect many lawyers use AI, but now they will be even more hesitant to admit it.
A Fifth Circuit Bait-and-Switch to Ignore Crime Victims' Rights
In 2023 the Fifth Circuit denied the victims' families challenge to the illegally negotiated Boeing DPA as bei...
New York's Governor Seems Indifferent to the Health Consequences of a Steep Tax on Nicotine Pouches
Kathy Hochul’s proposed levy would deter smokers from switching to a much less dangerous habit.
"There Is Evidence That This Particular Proceeding Before the Beijing Court Was Dominated by the" Chinese Communist Party,
holds a federal court in declining to enforce the Beijing judgment, and in therefore concluding that Stanford...
Judge Leon Blocked The East Wing Ballroom Based on Offended Observer Standing
After Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a claim for a purely "aesthetic injury" should fail.
Unless People Support Me, Trump Habitually Warns, 'We Won't Have a Country Anymore'
The president's predictions of the nation's imminent demise reflect his narcissistic authoritarianism.