Politics
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...
Houston Irks Texas Gov. Greg Abbott by Reminding Cops To Comply With the Fourth Amendment
The governor is threatening to defund the police because of an ordinance noting that an ICE administrative war...
Reports of Abuse Pour Out of Federal Immigration Detention Centers
Deaths in ICE detention have hit a two-decade high, and allegations of medical neglect and poor conditions con...
Brits Don't Need Government Mandates To Create a 'Smoke-Free Generation.' The Market Is Already Doing So.
With smoking rates already declining, the infantilization of future adults is unlikely to be a big win for pub...
No, FDR Did Not Pull America Out of the Great Depression
"The New Deal made investment in America a risky project," says economist Donald J. Boudreaux, author of The T...
DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for Secretly Funding Extremists
"The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence," said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Stephanie Barclay on "The Emergency Docket's Mistaken Birthday"
Contrary to what some believe, the Clean Power Plan was not the first executive branch action stopped on the "...
Tariffs Are Driving Up Your Homeowners Insurance Premiums
When it costs more to build a house, it also costs more to rebuild one.