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For the next month, the AALS Section on Law & Religion is accepting nominations for the Harold Berman Award.

From Wednesday's decision in Fontainebleau Florida Hotel, LLC v.

West Des Moines, Iowa—Iowa voters may disagree on immigration, taxes, and the economy, but government surveillance is drawing opposition from across the political spectrum.

10/24/1894: U.S. v.

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With public opposition toward data centers growing and midterm elections on the horizon, politicians across the spectrum have introduced overreaching policies to stymie data center development and ease voters' minds.

Who could have predicted that age-gating large sections of the internet in a crusade to shield children's eyeballs from vaguely defined "harmful content" would have disastrous consequences and wouldn't ultimately protect kids?

Eight years ago, Scott Hancock, then 28, helped a 19-year-old acquaintance, identified in court records as T.G., buy fentanyl.

Today the en banc Fifth Circuit ruled that illegal aliens do not have a constitutional right to a bond hearing pending deportation.

When the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act was still a work in progress, the Senate briefly inserted a ban on corporate ownership of single-family rental housing so sweeping that it might well have killed off the small but growing build-to-rent sector.

New Yorkers won't be voting on any citywide offices this year, but they do have five ballot initiatives that could shape the city's future more than any politician on this year's ballot.

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

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Earlier this week, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said that the police shooting of 1-year-old boy Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot earlier this year was a "justified" use of force.

Since the beginning of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in January 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims more than 1.1 million people have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Pro…

There has been much consternation this week about the use of fake polls in the media, with some government officials promising swift, and legally dubious, punishments for broadcasters that use them.

To many people, but especially libertarians, voting can feel dispiriting: By definition, every person on the ballot wants in some way to exert control over your life.

Today's guest is Ted Brown, the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S.

Supporters of Proposition 39, the statewide ballot initiative that would implement additional Voter ID requirements for California elections, pitch the measure as a "common-sense reform to increase trust and participation in our elections."

A short excerpt from the long opinion in Jackson Fed. of Teachers v.

Fjord is a movie about having your children taken by the state.

If you're reading this, then the internet still works.

10/23/1991: Justice Clarence Thomas takes oath.

Politicians may not like it, but the countries they misgovern compete with one another for businesses, people, and capital.

On eBay Live, livestreaming is for the entrepreneurial everyman.

"As much as the industrial revolution freed us from the constraints of the human muscle, AI will free us from the constraints of the human brain, pushing productivity beyond our wildest dreams….Keep AI unregulated so that it is free to be developed without

"My contempt for the state is infinite."

Philip Morant School and College, a public secondary school in England, faced strong criticism after introducing a rule banning physical contact between students, including high-fives, hugs, and linking arms.

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On this week's episode of Freed Up, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi condemn Vivek Ramaswamy's new attack ad against opponent Amy Acton before discussing their predictions for the 2026 midterm elections.

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On December 2, the Supreme Court will consider constitutional challenges to "assault weapon" bans in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, that cover widely owned rifles, including the AR-15.

Way back in May 2024, I wrote about Miller v.

Of all the arguments for protectionism, the infant industry argument probably has the strongest theoretical appeal.

In my role as a political commentator, I enjoy making predictions.

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French economist Gabriel Zucman has come to California bearing a familiar French solution to a fiscal problem: another tax.

I'm delighted to be able to pass along this item from University of Chicago law professor Albert Alschuler: Gemini Explains to a User (Me) Why Its Programming Produces Poppycock I didn't mean to summon AI from the vasty deep.

From Judge Kenneth Bell (W.D.N.C.) today in Global Plasma Solutions, Inc. v.

[This post was co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman.]

In 2016, the HBO comedian and political commentator John Oliver produced a terrific segment on how TV pundits routinely cite garbage science.

Once again, a member of President Donald Trump's administration is threatening to punish private citizens for their speech using the power of the government.

Back in February, I submitted a letter to the editor of the New York Times objecting to how I was often labelled as a "conservative" even as liberal law professors did not receive that label.

Like most of American healthcare, kidney care has for decades been plagued by red tape.

On November 3, the U.S.

An uncanny strength of the second Trump administration has been its ability to be involved in so many scandals that no single one seems to become a dominant story.

By Michael E.