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The government is entitled to try to persuade social media to take down posts, but not to coerce them to do so.

I pass along this comment I received from a well-known attorney in Texas who clerked on both the federal District Court level and at the Fifth Circuit. I suspect this attorney's views are widely shared: The memo to the judiciary has now become available, but that does not address the…

Philip Hamburger on How to Understand this Free Speech Case

Final decisions, accidental strip searches, and puppycide.

Jurisdictional bollards, standingripemootness, and a pretty good en banc grant.

Perhaps Governor Abbott will flout a directive from the Supreme Court in a future case, but reports of Texas "defying" the Supreme Court are bunk, and many making such claims should know better.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a lawsuit by Laredo’s most famous citizen journalist, Priscilla Villarreal, aka La Gordiloca.

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The court could potentially resolve the case without addressing the invasion arguments.

Both conservative and liberal justices seem to oppose letting states get away with violating the Takings Clause merely because Congress hasn't enacted a specific law enforcing it against them.