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Vermont Cops Terrorize High School Students With 'Mock Shooting'

"I'm shaking and crying because I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm gonna get shot,'" one student told a Vermont newspaper. "It felt so real."

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California YouTuber Faces 10 Years for Having Too Much Fun With Fireworks

The feds charged Alex Choi with “causing the placement of explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft” after he shot fireworks out of a helicopter into an empty desert.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Frothy fonts, unprofessional death threats, and books about butts and farts.

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Louisiana's New 25-Foot Legal Forcefield for Police Threatens Accountability and Civil Liberties

A new law will make it much harder to film law enforcement officers in their public duties. Does that violate the First Amendment?

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Fifth Circuit Blocks Order Requiring Defendants' Lawyers "to Attend 'Religious-Liberty Training' as a Sanction"

From today's decision in Carter v. Southwest Airlines, Inc. (consolidated with Carter v. Local 556, Transport Workers Union of Am.), decided today by Judge Edith Brown Clement, Kurt Engelhardt, and Cory Wilson (for my earlier post on the case, see here): On August 7, 2023, the district court held Southwest…

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AI Could Become the Next Victim of the 'Sacramento Effect'

California's stringent AI regulations have the power to stifle innovation nationwide, impacting all of us.

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David Boaz, RIP

One of libertarianism's greatest and most principled advocates passed away today.

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Laurence Tribe Bizarrely Claims Trump Won the 2016 Election by Falsifying Business Records in 2017

That take on the former president's New York conviction echoes similarly puzzling claims by many people who should know better.

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Police Flew Drones Over One California City Nearly 20,000 Times in 6 Years

A WIRED investigation reveals the extent to which residents of Chula Vista are subjected to surveillance from the sky.

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A Kerfuffle at the Columbia Law Review

Misbehaving editors intent on publishing ideologically driven claptrap provoke a controversy.

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D.C.'s Rules for Subway Ads Are Blocked in Federal Court

The transit authority was sued after rejecting an ad that directed viewers to go to a website "to find out about the faith of our founders."

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Three Bad Ideas about Race in America

My forthcoming article, Three Bad Ideas about Race in America, has been posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this Essay, prepared for a symposium honoring Brown v. Board of Education's seventieth anniversary, I examine and critique three influential propositions regarding race promoted by some academic theorists and pundits.…

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The Collective-Action Constitution in an Era of Polarization and Animosity: An Elegy?

Fifth in a series of guest-blogging posts.

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David Boaz, RIP

The longtime Cato Institute executive vice president was one of his era's most effective explainers of libertarianism.

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The Economy Biden Wants

Plus: Trump wants to cut federal spending, Mike Solana wants to save San Francisco, Canada wants to throw thought criminals in jail, and more...

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Baude & Paulsen v. Blackman on Section 3

Video from the 2024 Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference

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Journal of Free Speech Law: "True Defamation," by Prof. Jeffrey S. Helmreich

An article from the Defamation: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives symposium, sponsored by the Center for Legal Philosophy at UC Irvine.

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With Ride or Die, the Bad Boys Movies Become Referendums on Masculinity

The fourth Bad Boys film is an uninspired retread.

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California Is Doubling Down on Banning Plastic Bags

They're coming for new bags after old bag-ban failed.

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Review: Defy Anti–Alternative Meat Politicians With These Tasty, Pricey Ribs

Juicy Marbles' vegan ribs pull apart in a shockingly realistic way, and they taste great. But they'll also set you back $77.

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Review: This Netflix Drama Depicts North Korean Refugees' Tribulations

My Name is Loh Kiwan dramatizes the experiences of refugees escaping oppressive regimes.

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Brickbat: Get 'Em Next Time

New York lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow evidence of past sexual offenses to be introduced in sex crimes trials. The bill is named for Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul whose rape conviction was tossed out by the state Court of Appeals because the trial judge allowed testimony…

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Plaintiff's Idaho Murder Libel Claim Beats Defendant's "Tarot Readings" and "Psychic Intuition"

"[T]he only support for Defendant's statements about Plaintiff is that Defendant's 'spiritual investigation' into the murders using 'intuitive tarot readings' led her to Plaintiff."

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The GOP Once Claimed To Be the Party of 'Fiscal Responsibility.' So Why Not Reform Social Security?

Reasonable options include gradually raising the minimum retirement age, adjusting benefits to reflect longer life expectancies, and implementing fair means-testing to ensure benefits flow where they're actually needed.

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Viral Story About Bogus Viral Story Was Also Bogus

Corey Harris attracted widespread news coverage—including from Reason—when a video showed him behind the wheel during a court hearing about a suspended license. Except he never had a license at all.

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