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From yesterday's N.Y. appellate division decision in People v.

On Wednesday, Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq witnessed something remarkable: the final withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from the country.

NA Yesterday, in Global Nurse Force v.

The New York Times has shared new details about a 2024 accusation of gang sexual assault at Cornell University; they appear to strengthen District Attorney Matthew Van Houten's argument that there was not a compelling legal basis to bring charges against…

My 2013 book, Unprecedented, offered this vignette about how Chief Justice Roberts fled the United States to a safe refuge after the decided NFIB v.

Federal contractors who were part of a Biden administration scheme to recommend that Americans reduce their drinking are now being called out by the House Oversight Committee for violating the terms of that contract.

In March 2018, Michael Jones began serving as the police chief of Brookside, Alabama, a small town near Birmingham.

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Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing?

Jalal "Jay" Shehadeh had no reason to believe he was under suspicion from the government.

From Judge Anne Traum (D.

In the recent New York Times article "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?"

President Donald Trump introduced sweeping tariffs last spring, boasting of how they would bolster American manufacturing.

"Alarming inroads": "We are asking you to invest in a competitive race with the largest Latino electorate in the country following an election cycle where Republicans made alarming inroads with Latinos," reads a letter 70 Latino officials sent yesterday to

Easthampton just became the 25th Massachusetts municipality to adopt a "nicotine-free generation" policy.

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10/1/1924: Chief Justice Rehnquist's birthday.

Writing in The New York Times, journalist and 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones recently copped to the fact that she sent her daughter to poorly performing New York City public schools out of an ideological commitment to ending what she sees as str…

I've never been sure how to pronounce it.

An Oklahoma man is suing the Grady County Sheriff's Office for keeping his stolen property.

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Greg Stohr of Bloomberg reports on an interview with Justice Alito explaining the justice's last-minute decision to recuse in Suncor Energy v.

A federal jury on Monday found Bexar County, Texas, liable for systematically violating thousands of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights for years through a criminal interdiction unit.

America's leading AI companies are getting exactly what they asked for.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday directing various federal agencies to "develop and implement a campaign" across Washington, D.C., "to, by 2028, reduce the Asian tiger mosquito, Egyptian mosquito, and other invasive mosquito pop…

Many major American cities struggle with homelessness, and with no single clear or obvious solution, it's unlikely the problem will be solved anytime soon.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced that it is reevaluating its approach to approving nicotine products such as vapes and pouches.

Economist Leonard Read famously observed that no one on Earth is capable of single-handedly making a pencil.

The economic populism that has consumed the Republican Party in recent years rests largely upon the claim that America is in decline—and that we are falling behind because other countries (or immigrants from those countries) are "ripping us off," as Presi…

On Tuesday, California Democratic Gov.

Do Americans have a reasonable expectation of privacy in public?

A Miami Beach woman's First Amendment lawsuit against the city, its mayor, and police chief can partially proceed after a federal judge ruled on Monday that she had adequately alleged that Miami Beach has a policy and practice of targeting criticism of Is…

From yesterday's Blackman v.

Judge Kathryn Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida issued an opinion finding that the "set aside" remedy under the APA is (likely) unconstitutional.

In this newsletter, we believe in sometimes covering weighty issues surrounding sexual freedom or internet censorship.

In 2025, after twenty-five years at Case Western Reserve University, I moved to William & Mary.

Today's guest is Axel Kaiser, a Chilean-German lawyer, author of The Street Economist, and classical liberal who has spent years promoting free markets and limited government across Latin America.

From Gordon Jewish Community Center v.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acknowledged in court filings on Monday that "potential inaccuracies were identified" in the database it is using to look for illegal foreign voters—and that its investigation process carries the risk that "in rare

From Diemert v.

Concierge government: "The Trump administration has built a tool powered by artificial intelligence that its developers promise will serve as a 'concierge' to the federal government, as it attempts to modernize the relationship between citizens and the st…

From Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter last Wednesday in Kazazian v.

9/30/1857: Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis resigns from the Supreme Court after Dred Scott v.

The process of paying taxes manages to add insult to injury by making it burdensome to comply as you cough up the money the government steals from you.

In one of the final speeches of her congressional career, Rep.

Bradley Page has filed a federal lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, and several officers over an incident that took place in February 2025 on Interstate 10.

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On September 24, the Solicitor General sought an emergency stay, as well as an administrative stay, of the Boston District Court's order blocking third-country removals.

Half a century ago, Congress approved the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), which established a system for classifying drugs based on their "medical use" and "potential for abuse."

Having found the carrying of a handgun in public to be encompassed textually in the right to "bear arms," the Supreme Court in Bruen added that the historical record compiled by New York failed to demonstrate a tradition of broadly prohibiting the public…