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10/5/1953: Chief Justice Earl Warren takes the oath.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) did not include the $40 trillion mark in its gross national debt projections for the coming decade, forecasting a gross federal debt of $36 trillion in 2030.

Ruth Wang fled China with her family due to pressure from authorities over her work as an attorney.

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Jan Crawford sat down with Justice Alito for an extended interview.

Enough about the Fifth Circuit for now.

NA In an insightful recent article on the Liberalism.Org website, prominent libertarian political philosopher Matt Zwolinski argues that libertarians should place a higher value on democracy: Ask someone what a classical liberal believes, and you'll get a…

Associate Justice Samuel Alito sat down for multiple interviews with Jan Crawford of CBS News in advance of the opening of the Supreme Court's term and the release of his book, So Ordered: An Originalist's View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Coun…

A surprising state court decision last month breathed new life into a battle concerning a business that had been barred from even seeking compensation after law enforcement allegedly damaged property worth thousands of dollars.

10/4/1965: Justice Abe Fortas takes the oath.

It's 2019, and Rep.

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I think we should just be candid about Todd Butler's nomination to the Fifth Circuit.

From Judge Tanya Chutkan (D.D.C.)

On Friday, CBS News released several clips from Jan Crawford's interview with Justice Samuel Alito.

Perhaps more than anything else, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been associated with his now-famous "freeze the rent" pledge for rent-stabilized units in the Big Apple.

10/3/1990: Justice David Souter takes the oath.

On the morning federal immigration agents shot Alex Pretti in the back, Emmanuel Mauleón, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, was standing on a ladder outside his house, pulling down holiday decorations.

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Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot Minneapolis protester Renée Good on January 7, was not in any danger when he fired three rounds into the Honda Pilot she was driving, according to a pair of federal lawsui…

Congress' latest attempt to regulate the internet has been stalled until after the midterms.

Christa Pike, the Tennessee woman convicted of murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995, was a dead woman walking Wednesday.

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

Against the increasingly mainstream view that housing costs are high because new supply is constrained by regulation is an alternative thesis: There are plenty of homes once vacant units deliberately held off the market are accounted for.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

With the power of the purse, Congress can pressure the president to stand down in Iran by doing what it usually does best: nothing.

President Donald Trump has long been an active participant in American media.

New York Gov.

I appreciate the perspective of Mike Fragoso, who knows more about judicial nominees than just about anyone else.

In the days after the White House launched its new AI chatbot, America.gov, the Trump administration reportedly reprogrammed it to stop debunking some of the president's more outlandish claims—like who won the 2020 election.

I continue to dig through the record of Todd Butler, the new nominee to the Fifth Circuit.

Has there ever been a good movie about climate change?

From a Justice Department press release Monday: Louis Geri, 42, of Vineland, New Jersey, was sentenced today in U.S.

From Judge Richard Arcara (W.D.N.Y.) yesterday in U.S. v.

The Civil Rights of Act of 1866 (42 U.S.C. § 1981) was interpreted in the late 1960s as prohibiting discrimination even in private contracts based on race.

Currying favor: Over the last several months, it appears that Anthropic higher-ups have been meeting with religious leaders from different faith traditions—Catholics and Ubuntu practitioners and Mormons and Jews (no, this isn't a setup for a joke)—to expl…

From Monday's decision by Judge Samantha Elliott (D.N.H.) in Wood v.

Jerry Brown took his share of indefensible positions in his final two terms as governor, but even Republicans acknowledged that he was the last adult in Sacramento—a backstop against the zaniest ideas in the Capitol.

10/2/1967: Justice Thurgood Marshall takes the oath.

At least as far back as the 16th century, the powers that be fretted that firearms grant those of lesser physical strength and lacking martial training the ability to defend themselves—even against the state's professional enforcers.

People tend to think of propaganda as "war is peace" rhetoric, not as an instruction to add nutritional yeast to your salmon cakes because it's "great for your microbiome."

There are moments in life where all eyes, from every walk of life, seem to fixate as one onto a transient phenomenon whose magnetic attraction everyone understands but no one can quite adequately explain.

A U.S. postal worker in Utah has been charged with throwing about 300 mail-in ballots into a parking lot dumpster just before the state's June primary election.

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After dinner this evening, I did a bit of research into the publications of Todd Butler, President Trump's latest nominee to the Fifth Circuit.

In December 2017, I wrote in National Review that Republican-appointed judges should consider taking senior status so President Trump could fill those seats.

NA In a recent post, prominent left-liberal economist Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan) concedes that his "libertarian friends" were right about the dangers of government power: My libertarian-leaning friends have consistently argued against a power…

This week on Freed Up, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi unpack the Cornell rape case before talking about their experience at the Data After Dark party.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has faced accusations of antisemitism since his mayoral campaign, was never going to please everyone with his plan to "combat antisemitism."

On Monday the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Suncor Energy v.