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Years ago, I bought a contraption designed to separate and concentrate the most volatile components of a liquid mixture.

A few moments ago, I crossed the 1,000,000 mile threshold on United Airlines.

From the complaint in Piker v.

From a long opinion yesterday by Judge Eumi Lee (N.D.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) insists that it has the right to search Americans' private data without a warrant when entering the country.

"The long-term goal is to achieve statehood and autonomy," says Kymone Freeman, the Green Party candidate for Washington, D.C.'

A Pennsylvania man put up Halloween decorations around his property.

Elon Musk is under attack!

A little more than a year ago, President Donald Trump publicly demanded that Pam Bondi, then the attorney general, find a crime to pin on former FBI Director James Comey.

From Magistrate Judge Enjolique A.

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free.

Do you have a right to privacy on public roads?

From today's opinion in Jackson v.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent!

Will Bibi survive?

Last week, President Trump signed into law the Romance Scam Prevention Act that Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) introduced and that received bipartisan sponsorship.

The Supreme Court is asked to review several thousand cases each year.

10/27/1787: First Federalist Paper is published.

One of the more interesting developments at the U.S.

President Donald Trump has long been associated with lust.

Texas might finally turn blue, and the man poised to do it is a mask-wearing, trans rights–supporting, Gnostic Gospel–quoting liberal from Austin.

The Scottish government has confirmed that around 800 public sector workers are being paid despite having no jobs.

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The New York Times published more excerpts from Bob Woodward's new book.

Patients diagnosed with progressive dementia may know exactly how much deterioration they are willing to endure.

I am pleased that my interview with the New York Times continues to resonate.

Texas National Guard members in Illinois (Brian Cassella/TNS/Newscom) On October 23, in the case of Newsom v.

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch are joined by Associate Editor Liz Wolfe to discuss California's proposed 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires, which a Hoover Institution study suggests could ultimately cost the state $39…

From deportations without due process to random and discriminatory detentions and searches, the Trump administration's immigration crackdown raised many constitutional concerns.

A Connecticut law that took effect at the beginning of October imposes new restrictions on police use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), which enable what a federal judge recently described as "a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance."

Is Nathan Fielder interested in making something innovative and great, or does he only really care about making money?

Bob Woodward is publishing a new book, titled "Secrets," that reveals many of the reporter's sources.

Princes and Thieves, a new book by investigative journalist Matthew Cole, may open a rabbit hole into financial connections between Middle Eastern dictators and President Donald Trump's family.

When the White House rolled back tariffs on coffee, fruit, beef, and farm equipment, it was effectively an admission that the tariffs were raising prices—and that Americans, not foreigners, had been paying for them.

Alaska's U.S.

California's experiment: Will California's proposed wealth tax, Prop 40, pass next week?

From E.B. v.

From Judge Virginia Kendall (N.D.

Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Democratic U.S.

10/26/1774: First Continental Congress ends its first session in Philadelphia.

The first state to be ruled by Al Qaeda might not be in Afghanistan or the Arab world—and its ruler might be a former whiskey-drinking rock star.

San Diego County, California, has sued Polymaker, a company that manufactures filament for 3D printers.

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Illustration: Midjourney Last week, the Liberty Justice Center (the public interest group I worked with on the case challenging Trump's earlier IEEPA tariffs, which led their invalidation by the Supreme Court) filed the first lawsuit challenging President…

Evil Andrew Heaton has a modest proposal for his partisan peers.

Damien Charlotin, who runs the invaluable AI Hallucination Cases site (2200+ cases worldwide and counting) has a new one, AI Deepfakes in Court, listing 26 cases worldwide so far.

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10/25/1795: Justice John Blair resigns from the Supreme Court.

Is there an exception to the 5th Amendment's promise that government cannot take private property without "just compensation"?