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Gorsuch Apes NIMBY Government Lies in Supreme Court's Grants Pass Decision

Plus: A disappointing first round of "Baby YIMBY" grant awards, President Joe Biden endorses rent control, and House Republicans propose cutting housing spending.

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Justices Thomas and Gorsuch Argue Court Should Review Scope of 47 U.S.C. § 230 Immunity

But, at least in this case, this view didn't get the four votes necessary to grant review.

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S. Ct. Will Decide: May States Require Age Verification to Access Porn Sites?

The Court just agreed to hear this case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. You can read the majority and dissenting opinions in the Fifth Circuit here, and the petition, response, and reply here. Here's the issue in a nutshell: 1. Ginsberg v. N.Y.(1968) held (in a majority opinion by Justice…

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Plucking Beauty out of Dangerous Cracks and Crevices

Herbert Butterfield, the historian often remembered for coining or at least popularizing the phrase "Whig history," published in 1950: It is not open to any of us to say that we will postpone what philosophers call 'the good life'—postpone any of the higher purposes of mankind—until the world is more…

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Weekend at Biden's

Plus: Trump immunity ruling, cosmopolitan thinking on immigration, cringe Kamala, and more...

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Plutarch on Open Courts

From Plutarch's Sayings of Kings and Commanders (Frank Cole Babbitt trans.); Antigonus was one of Alexander the Great's successors: When Marsyas his brother had a lawsuit, and claimed the right to have the trial held at his house, Antigonus said, 'It shall be in the Forum and with everybody listening…

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Ohio S. Ct. Vacates Order Sealing Documents at Defendant's Behest in Alleged Child Rape Case

The defendant had alleged that he, his family, and his lawyer had been threatened by the public, but the Ohio Supreme Court concluded that the trial court wasn't given adequate evidence to justify sealing.

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Brickbat: A Picture's Worth 1,000 Words

Former Boyle County, Kentucky sheriff's deputy Tanner Abbott has been sentenced to nine years and two months in federal prison after being convicted of four counts of violating people's civil rights, and one count each of conspiracy and falsifying records. Prosecutors said Abbott used excessive force against four people, performed…

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Did Justice Alito Lose The Majority Opinions In Trevino and NetChoice?

Alito had only four majority opinions this term, while Roberts, Thomas, Sotomayor, and Kagan all had seven.

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Call for Papers: National Firearms Act Symposium

Date: Friday, October 18, 2024 Location: Laramie, Wyoming Abstracts Due: July 29, 2024 Manuscripts Due: August 29, 2024 The Wyoming Law Review and the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center announce a call for papers for a Symposium this fall on the National Firearms Act (NFA). Papers may address any…

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Edited Version of Trump v. United States

Download the edited version from the 2024 Barnett/Blackman supplement.

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The Supreme Court's Reasoning Prohibits the Deplatforming Limits that the Parties Care About

As the Moody v. NetChoice majority noted, the parties focused on Facebook's and YouTube's main feeds. The majority similarly focused on those main feeds in its extensive discussion of First Amendment principles, and, as co-blogger Ilya notes, it left little doubt about the unconstitutionality of the Texas and Florida statutes…

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Biden, Cognitive Decline, and the End of American Empire

Plus: The editors reflect on the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

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Sacramento Cops Shared License Plate Data With Anti-Abortion States

And a grand jury says that's illegal.

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Louisiana Parents Sue Over Law Mandating 10 Commandments Displays in Classrooms

"This is an obvious attempt to use our public schools to convert kids to Christianity. We live in a democracy, not a theocracy," one ACLU attorney tells Reason.

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My New Spectator (UK) Article on "The (Selfish) Case for Immigration"

The article explains how immigration has major benefits for receiving-country natives, with a focus on Britain.

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Supreme Court's Presidential Immunity Ruling Could Shield Outrageous Abuses of Power

By requiring "absolute" immunity for some "official acts" and "presumptive" immunity for others, the justices cast doubt on the viability of Donald Trump's election interference prosecution.

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When May Law Require Social Media Platforms to Disclose Basis for Moderation Decisions?

From the majority in Moody v. Netchoice, LLC: The laws, from Florida and Texas, restrict the ability of social-media platforms to control whether and how third-party posts are presented to other users … [including by] requir[ing] a platform to provide an individualized explanation to a user if it removes or…

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Supreme Court Remands Texas and Florida Social Media Cases—But Strongly Suggests the States' Laws Violate the First Amendment

The majority opinion makes clear that social media content moderation is an activity protected by the First Amendment. That likely dooms large parts of the state laws restricting content moderation.

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My New Dispatch Article on Why Nationalism is a Bigger Menace than Wokeness

Both ideologies are bad. But one is a much greater danger than the other.

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S. Ct. Recognizes Platforms' Right to Choose What Appears in "Curated Feeds," Doesn't Resolve Other Content Moderation Questions

In today's Moody v. Netchoice, LLC, the Supreme Court sent back to lower courts the cases considering whether (and when) the Florida and Texas limits on social media content moderation are constitutional. The decision was complicated and limited, so here's a general summary. [1.] Remember that the lawyer's true superpower…

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Social Media Moderation Is Speech, Says Supreme Court

The Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.

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Four Justices in Netchoice Flag Question Whether First Amendment Protects AI-Curated Materials

From Justice Barrett's concurrence in today's Moody v. Netchoice, LLC: Consider, for instance, how platforms use algorithms to prioritize and remove content on their feeds. Assume that human beings decide to remove posts promoting a particular political candidate or advocating some position on a public-health issue. If they create an…

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Justice Barrett's Netchoice Concurrence Raises Questions Relevant to TikTok Case

From her opinion in Moody v. Netchoice, LLC: Corporations, which are composed of human beings with First Amendment rights, possess First Amendment rights themselves. But foreign persons and corporations located abroad do not. Agency for Int'l Development v. Alliance for Open Society Int'l, Inc. [II] (2020)…. What if the platform's…

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Big Win for France's Far Right

Plus: Biden messaging turns dark, Iran's voter nihilism, Catholic socialists, and more...

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