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Counting The Votes In An Unusual Per Curiam Opinion in Gonzalez v. Trevino

We know the identity of four members of the majority, but who else joined?

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Thou Shalt Not Covet State Power

Plus: Lambda School crashes and burns, climate ruffians deface Stonehenge, Russia sets sights on the Baltics, and more...

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Why Some Arizona Republicans Are Defending Abortion Rights

A handful of Republican lawmakers worked with Democrats to repeal an 1864 law banning most abortions.

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Brickbat: Pressure Built Up

In 2022, San Francisco fireman Robert Muhammad used a work computer to find fellow firefighter Gabriel Shin's home address. Muhammad had earlier threatened Shin for refusing to reveal who was talking about Muhammad's personal business at work. Muhammad took a hydrant wrench to Shin's house and, finding him outside, began…

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The Supreme Court May Be on the Brink of Radically Restricting Bureaucrats' Power

Chevron deference, a doctrine created by the Court in 1984, gives federal agencies wide latitude in interpreting the meaning of various laws. But the justices may overturn that.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Sidewalks are not "Pedestrian Ways"—thus Allowing Local Governments to Use Eminent Domain to Take Property to Build Them

The close 4-3 decision might well become a staple of textbooks.

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"Indian National" Extradited "in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Citizen" for Citizen's Sikh Separatist Advocacy

The government alleges that Nikhil Gupta was involved in a "plot, directed by an employee of the Indian government, to target and assassinate a U.S. citizen for his support of the Sikh separatist movement in India."

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Trump Advisor Admits Trade War Against China Failed

In an interview, former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien admitted that "the Chinese didn’t honor" the terms of the deal, years after it was clear.

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Juneteenth Is a Celebration of Freedom

The holiday represents a page-turning from one of the most shameful chapters in American history.

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New York Cuts Real Rents at Rent-Stabilized Apartments

The city's Rent Guidelines Board approved a nominal 2.75 rent increase for one million rent-stabilized apartments. That's below the year's 3.3 percent inflation rate.

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A Federal Judge Rejects the Lame Excuses of Texas Cops Who Kidnapped a Supposedly 'Abandoned' Teenager

The decision clears the way for a jury to consider Megan and Adam McMurry's constitutional claims against the officers who snatched their daughter.

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Don't Freak Out Over Florida Teen Labor Laws

Laws letting teens work longer hours won't have the disastrous effects critics claim they will.

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Trump Said Tariffs Would Reduce the Trade Deficit. Instead, It Grew.

In 2017, the last full year before Trump's tariffs were imposed, America's overall trade deficit was $517 billion. By 2023, it had grown to $785 billion.

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Reflections on Juneteenth

Juneteenth celebrates a great American achievement, and a triumph for the nation's Founding principles. Also, the culture war over the holiday is lame, and hopefuly coming to an end.

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The Possible Penalties for Boeing's Crime of Concealing 737 MAX Safety Issues

My letter to the Justice Department lays out the possibilities, including a possible fine of $24,780,000,000

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FUCKSHITUP Can't Be Trademarked

Not because it's "scandalous" or "immoral," since the Supreme Court struck down that trademark restriction on First Amendment grounds in Iancu v. Brunetti (2019); rather, because it is so "commonplace" that people would just view it as the common phrase instead of an indicator of who is manufacturing the products…

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Public Has Right to Access Summary Judgment Filings Even When Summary Judgment Motion Was Never Decided

From U.S. ex rel. Oberg & Camoin v. Nelnet, Inc., decided yesterday by the Fourth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Julius Richardson, joined by Judge Barbara Milano Keenan and District Judge Elizabeth Dillon (W.D. Va.): In 2007, Jon Oberg filed a lawsuit under the False Claims Act against various…

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Shouting "Chick with a Dick" "Multiple Times" at City Council Meeting Was Disruptive, Could Justify Ejection

So holds a federal court, also concluding that earlier sexual discussions could likewise justify restriction in the open public comment period (treated by the law as a “limited public forum,” in which reasonable and viewpoint-neutral restrictions are constitutional).

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Judge Tosses Biometric Data Suit Against X

X's child porn detection system doesn’t violate an Illinois biometric privacy law, the judge ruled.

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A Florida Man Was Arrested for Filming Marion County Sheriff's Deputies. Now He's Suing.

Numerous federal appeals courts have ruled that filming police is protected under the First Amendment, but police continue to illegally arrest people for it.

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Whole Foods' John Mackey: We Must Change How We Think About Capitalism

The co-founder of Whole Foods discusses his new memoir, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism as he launches his new holistic health venture, Love.Life.

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Zynsurrection Time

Plus: War in Sudan, federal homeschooling regulations, E.A. vs. progress studies, and more...

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When I see an animal that looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and lays eggs like a duck…

…I see a duck-billed platypus. Cf. Garland v. Cargill (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) ("When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."). Alas, a platypus does not quack. But it is not pleasant when a…

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No Charges in ATF Killing Over Paperwork Firearms Violation

Vague rules and an unjustified raid led to Bryan Malinowski’s brutal death at the hands of federal agents.

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Brickbat: Quadruple Dealing

Authorities in Tennessee indicted Gibson County Sheriff Paul Thomas on 22 charges including official misconduct, theft, forgery, and computer crimes involving jail inmates in his custody. Thomas failed to disclose ownership interests in a staffing agency that provided inmates to assist local businesses, a company that housed current and former…

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