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9/26/1986: Chief Justice Warren Burger retires.

President Donald Trump was excited about a new military operation.

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After being blocked in his attempt to keep CNN out of the White House altogether (including the main press briefing room), President Trump has excluded CNN from traveling with him on Air Force One.

The sun is setting shortly and I'm on the go, so my comments about the Missouri order will be brief.

What started as a "narrow constitutional exception" now "threatens to swallow the protection it was meant only to qualify," according to an amicus brief filed last week by the Cato Institute asking the Supreme Court to reconsider a petition about warrantl…

Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.

A small Christian college founded by controversial, self-described "libertarian theocrat" and "Christian nationalist" pastor Doug Wilson claims in a new lawsuit that officials in Moscow, Idaho, are using the city's zoning code to discriminate against its…

From Judge Gregory Katsas, joined by Judge Neomi Rao, in today's D.C.

From Judge Colleen McMahon in Freeman v.

It seems that automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are constantly in the news.

From Azhar v.

The killing of Renée Good, who was gunned down on a Minneapolis street in January by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, was a tragedy.

The war in Yemen has come full circle.

Two University of Mississippi students are dead, and investigators found packages of kratom at both scenes.

Thag put sharp rock on stick.

Some excerpts from today's long majority opinion by Judge Gregory Katsas, joined by Judge Neomi Rao, in today's D.C.

"You can shove it with your culture wars," said Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa, describing her mindset toward Gov.

For those of us steeped in dystopian movies, it's easy to start thinking about building a bunker after the latest news.

For evidence that "universal" government-run health care has become an almost theological article of faith among certain segments of our society, I need look no further than some emails received in response to my last column.

9/25/1981: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor takes the oath.

In the British documentary series Clarkson's Farm (Amazon's Prime Video), former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, a self-described libertarian, attempts to run a 1,000-acre farm in West Oxfordshire, England, with no prior farming experience.

"In a canon rife with the contributions of white males to the creation of our nation, most of us know there is more left unsaid and unwritten," writes Denise Kiernan about midway through Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ign…

Jody Baer, a former police officer in Odessa, Texas, faces two felony counts of misuse of official information.

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I may have to eat crow on the lightning docket (no order in the Missouri case), but things are brewing with the thirty-country removal case.

Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez was an editor of The Mercury, a student newspaper at the University of Texas at Dallas, before he was placed on a two-year deferred suspension after his school deemed that his editorial decisions constituted "discriminatory har…

This week on Freed Up, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi break down former Rep.

On Wednesday, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that an OpenAI agent had "infiltrated an Australian Government website" and gained "unauthorized access into the public-facing Medicare…

Chinese President Xi Jinping landed at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington on Wednesday and was met personally on the tarmac by President Donald Trump.

I was not expecting that I would enjoy The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's upcoming film about how evil Facebook is.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is running a program that "harasses and coerces American citizens exercising the fundamental right to vote," according to a lawsuit filed last week by several institutions in California.

On Wednesday, an Iowa judge dismissed a lawsuit in which President Donald Trump preposterously claimed that The Des Moines Register committed consumer fraud when it published poll results he did not like prior to the 2024 election.

As President Donald Trump embarked on his plan to hike tariffs and escalate tensions with America's biggest trading partners, he offered an infamous bit of reassurance.

Last year, President Donald Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House.

From a just-filed affidavit: For more on the initial noncompliance, see here.

A Tennessee man is suing a local police department for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights after videos he uploaded of an officer speeding led to the man being arrested in a predawn raid.

This morning, a federal judge in the District of Columbia temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, ordering restoration of the "hard passes" held by employees of those news outlets.

As leaders from across the globe gather in New York to discuss matters of national security, public opinion is turning against AI.

First Amendment case: "A federal judge on Thursday said that President Trump's order barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House was likely unconstitutional and ordered the administration to restore access to the three news outlets," reports The…

Here's an announcement for law student readers of this blog.

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9/24/1755: Chief Justice John Marshall's birthday.

A federal judge sentenced former Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Christopher Cadman to 21 months in prison after Cadman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against rights and one count of filing a false tax return.

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From Judge Timothy Kelly's TRO today in CNN, Inc. v.

From today's long decision by Iowa state trial court judge Scott Beattie in Trump v.

Schools are ending gifted and talented programs.

"Bro we need your vote," former congressman and attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz posted on X on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump rose to power by talking to desperate, distrustful, and angry Americans.