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Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. Colleges
From Judge Tanya Chutkan (D.D.C.) Thursday evening in Ass'n of Am. Univ. v. U.S. Dep't of Ed. : Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires universities to report foreign gifts and contracts to the Department of Education, making those reports publicly available. Since 2020, the Department has also collected the names of individual foreign donors while stating that it would not publish them.
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Justice Alito on Deciding When to Retire from the Court
On Friday, CBS News released several clips from Jan Crawford's interview with Justice Samuel Alito. In these clips Justice Alito discusses the Dobbs decision , Presidential comments about the Court , being recognized in public , and how he thinks about retirement from the Court. Here's the retirement clip: And here's the clip on comments made by Presidents about the Court: The post Justice Alito o
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Mamdani Promised To Freeze the Rent. Now His Rent Freeze Is in Court.
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. Throughout his campaign, Mamdani made bold promises, such as claiming : "As mayor, I'll freeze the rent every year I'm in office. That's a guarantee." In June of this year, some six months after Mamdani took office, the may
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Minneapolis Activists Used Encrypted Group Chats To Outmaneuver ICE. Now the Feds Want To Prosecute Them.
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. That's when his phone started buzzing. Pretti's death would quickly become a national news story. Coming soon after the killing of Renée Good , this was the second time in less than a
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2 Lawsuits Cast Further Doubt on the Claim That ICE Agent Jonathan Ross Killed Renée Good in Self-Defense
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 lawsuits that her brother and widow filed on Thursday. Nor was he responding to a threat that Good posed to anyone else, say the plaintiffs, who allege
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Rand Paul Was Right To Block the Senate's Attempt To Censor the Internet
Congress' latest attempt to regulate the internet has been stalled until after the midterms. On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) blocked efforts to pass the Senate's Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)—a bill that would legally require platforms to "exercise reasonable care" in creating any "design feature" that could foreseeably harm minors—through unanimous consent (a fast-track procedure that would
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Would a Firing Squad Have Been More 'Humane' for Christa Pike?
Christa Pike, the Tennessee woman convicted of murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995 , was a dead woman walking Wednesday. Whether or when she will walk again remains to be seen. But, as of Thursday evening, she was alive, having survived the state's attempt to execute her via lethal injection. Twice. Put differently, it did not go as planned. Correctional staff administered a (supposedly) lethal dose
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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit , a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New case ! Last year, in Rivera v. Borough of Pottstown , a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that individualized suspicion is required before gov't officials can get a warrant to search homes for code violations. Which was great! But now the borough is demanding that rente
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A Court Rules That San Francisco's Empty Home Tax Is Illegal
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. To fix this problem, a handful of California cities have adopted vacancy taxes to try and force these allegedly hoarded homes back onto the market. Critics of em
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Justice Gorsuch on Abuse of Emergency Powers
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. (Eric Lee/UPI/Newscom) In a recent "fireside chat" before the Tenth Circuit conference, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch decried the trend towards abusive use of emergency powers (see also this slightly more detailed account ): "Everything is an emergency," he said…. "We've moved so much up to the federal level that needs to be done by states. And now t
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Want To Stop the Iran War? Don't Pay the Bill
With the power of the purse, Congress can pressure the president to stand down in Iran by doing what it usually does best: nothing . The U.S. war with Iran passed the seven-month mark this week, and the people in charge of it aren't exactly inspiring confidence. Trust the plan, President Donald Trump urged Tuesday: "I don't know if they are going to give up yet, but they'll give up." Meanwhile, U.
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Trump Criticizes Fox News for Daring To Show Clips of Democrats
President Donald Trump has long been an active participant in American media. He's simultaneously been hostile to any coverage he sees as less than flattering. Last month, he banned three news outlets from covering the White House, a likely unconstitutional act. This week, he singled out one of his more sympathetic outlets for criticism, suggesting he sees anything short of obsequious deference as
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Letitia James Has Already Suggested the Cornell 7 Are Guilty
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has appointed Attorney General Letitia James to oversee a new investigation into Cornell University's handling of a 2024 sexual misconduct allegation. That matter is the subject of a lawsuit by the alleged victim, known as Jane Doe, whose accusation of gang rape at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October of that year has garnered significant media coverage t
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How Would A Judge Butler Actually Affect The Fifth Circuit?
I appreciate the perspective of Mike Fragoso, who knows more about judicial nominees than just about anyone else. Mike is clearly right that there is a risk of not letting Judge Southwick hand his sinecure to his law clerk. Southwick can simply not take senior status under President Trump. Indeed, if Butler's nomination is scuttled (Sullied?), Southwick can follow the unethical path of Judge Wynne
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I Asked the White House's New AI Chatbot About Tariffs. It Told the Truth.
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 . But that hasn't stopped the AI from telling the truth about tariffs: They are taxes, they are paid by Americans , and they have contributed to rising prices throughout the e
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Todd Butler Compared Street Preacher In Supreme Court Case To "Domestic Terrorism"
I continue to dig through the record of Todd Butler, the new nominee to the Fifth Circuit. I wonder if anyone else did? Butler's greatest claim to fame is arguing Olivier v. City of Brandon before the Supreme Court. The questions presented were fairly technical: 1. Whether, as the Fifth Circuit holds in conflict with the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, this Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey bars § 19
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Red Mass Explosive Man Asked S. Ct. to "Remove Arizona from the United States" and "Declare It a 'Foreign Enemy'"
From a Justice Department press release Monday: Louis Geri, 42, of Vineland, New Jersey, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 70 months in prison in connection with threatening to detonate more than 100 homemade explosive devices on the steps of St. Matthew's Cathedral during the annual Red Mass attended by U.S. Supreme Court Justices and other senior government officials, announced U.S.
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Salman Rushdie Attempted Murder Case: Court Upholds Jury Verdict …
From Judge Richard Arcara (W.D.N.Y.) yesterday in U.S. v. Matar : Following a jury trial, Defendant Hadi Matar was convicted of each charge contained in a three-count indictment. Count 1 charged Matar with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization ("FTO")—that is, Hizballah, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339B(a)(1). Count 2 charged Matar with committing a
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Jews and Discrimination Based on Religion or Based on Ethnicity?
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. In 1991, Congress expressly included that interpretation in the statute. Because in the late 1800s, "race" was understood to include what today might refer to "ethnicity" (e.g., German, Arab, Jewish), the Court concluded that § 1981 extends to
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Anthropic vs. the Pope
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 explore questions of how to do moral formation for Claude and whether Claude is conscious or capable of suffering. Or, looked at more cynically, they
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Defamation by Retroactive Scrubbing of Coach from Roster?
From Monday's decision by Judge Samantha Elliott (D.N.H.) in Wood v. Dartmouth College : Plaintiff Justin Wood was Dartmouth University's Men's Cross-Country coach for nearly two years, until August 2022. He alleges that Porscha Dobson Harnden, who served as the Director of Dartmouth Track & Field and Cross Country during his tenure and for roughly two years thereafter, made defamatory remarks abo
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California Lawmakers Passed a Pension Bomb. Newsom Was Right To Veto It.
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. In an interview with NPR as he prepared to leave office, he touted his efforts at taming the budget, which provided insight into his mature priorities. He slammed Republicans for only
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Women Are Better Armed Than Ever
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. Women have particularly benefited from weapons that work independent of muscle mass. Despite that equalizing power, gun ownership long remained a largely masculine pu
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Review: RFK Jr.'s YouTube Cooking Show Is Both Informative and Unsettling
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." The Real Food Show reminds us that sometimes propaganda can sound like a guy selling home-brewed kombucha circa 2010. Produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), this YouTube cooking show features HHS Se
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Review: The Fugitive Owl Who Captured New York's Attention
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. For 12 magical months in 2023–24, that object of our attention was a Eurasian eagle owl. Wild Inside , Penny Lane's terrific HBO Films documentary, relives the saga of Flaco, the born-in-captivit
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Brickbat: Rain, Snow, or Laziness
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. According to the Department of Justice, Damon Matai Seei told investigators he felt overwhelmed and acted out of frustration and laziness rather than any political motive, saying he mainly wanted to get rid of ads to lighten his load but a
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Todd Butler's Problematic Publications
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. Despite serving in private practice for nearly two decades, Butler has published several articles. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Mississippi Law School. (I am not sure what he taught). Here are some of his publications: A
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When Judges Pick Their Law Clerks As Replacements
In December 2017, I wrote in National Review that Republican-appointed judges should consider taking senior status so President Trump could fill those seats. That essay struck a nerve with a lot of judges. Some of them talked to me privately. Judge Leslie Southwick of the Fifth Circuit chose to address it directly in a Notre Dame Law Review article . Here is an excerpt: The administration itself h
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Justin Wolfers Recognizes His "Libertarian Friends Were Right" About Government Power
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 powerful federal government in favor of individual freedoms. I had — somewhat naively — never taken their views seriously enough. My friends who work
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Cornell Lawsuit, Data After Dark, Botched Execution
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. They also talk about Reason 's upcoming documentary Escaping Venezuela before discussing how unserious Congress is. Later, the crew digs into the wild story of a co-pilot who allegedly tried to hijack a plane. They also cover the botched execu
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Mamdani's Plan To Fight Antisemitism Will Fuel the NYC Nonprofit Complex
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 Tuesday, when he unveiled the city's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism , the plan predictably drew criticism. As Josh Appel wrote in UnHerd , Mamdani's plan failed some of his supporters' "anti-Zionism purity test." As
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Buschbacher: Did Prof. Adler File His Amicus Brief for the Wrong Side in Suncor?
On Monday the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County . My amicus brief in Suncor has received a decent amount of attention--but not all of it favorable. Perhaps because I have been critical of much climate regulation and litigation, some were surprised that I believe Boulder County has the better of the preemption arguments here. Michael Buschbacher, Managing Part
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Woman Who Served ~20 Years for Killing 3-Year-Old Daughter Can't Get Conviction Sealed and Anonymized
From yesterday's N.Y. appellate division decision in People v. Herrnkind : On November 5, 2001, the defendant and her codefendant, her husband, abused and killed their three-year-old daughter. In 2004, the defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to a determinate term of imprisonment of 25 years, to be followed by 5 years of postrelease supervision…. In 2022
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U.S. Troops Finally Leave Iraq. When Are They Leaving the Rest of the Middle East?
On Wednesday, Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq witnessed something remarkable: the final withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from the country. The exodus marked the end of more than two decades of U.S. intervention in Iraq, which began when President George W. Bush sent some 150,000 soldiers into the country to depose Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. Despite Bush's infamously premature declaration of victo
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Second Federal Court Rules Against Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
NA Yesterday, in Global Nurse Force v. Trump , the US District Court for the Northern District of California issued a decision blocking the Trump Administration's $100,000 fee on applications for H-1B visas (which are used by tech firms, research institutions, and other organizations to hire immigrant workers with various specialized skills). Federal district Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr. ruled that
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The Cornell Rape Lawsuit Is Fueling a Deranged Social Media Mob
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 seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity. But try telling that to the social media mob, which is going to absurd lengths to identify and destroy t
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Somehow the N.Y. Times Made Me Sympathetic To Chief Justice Roberts
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. Sebelius . The day after the Court's term concluded, he left the country to teach at a summer program for law students in Malta, organized in part by the South Texas College of Law, where I teach. Before he departed, Roberts joked that he was retreat
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Federal Contractors Responsible for 'Biased' Alcohol Study Should Be Punished, Oversight Committee Says
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. Rep. James Comer (R–Ky.), the committee's chairman, says that members of a scientific panel did not have permission to release part of a "flawed" and "biased" study that was meant to
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Judge Preliminarily Blesses $1.5 Million Settlement for Victims of a Tiny Town's 'Policing for Profit'
In March 2018, Michael Jones began serving as the police chief of Brookside, Alabama, a small town near Birmingham. During the next two years, the city's annual revenue from "fines and forfeitures" rose by 640 percent, from $82,467 to $610,307. The increase since 2017, the year before Jones took over, was even bigger: about 1,100 percent. By 2020, fines and forfeitures accounted for nearly half of
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ICE Deletes Reports Flagging Medical Neglect in Detention Center Deaths
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) briefly published, then deleted, internal reviews from its website finding inadequate medical care in the cases of dozens of people who died in immigration detention centers. The internal reports reviewed 33 deaths in ICE detention centers between September 2019 and January 2026. Of the 31 mortality reviews that reached a conclusion, 27 found that car
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The National Debt Has Exploded. The Reckoning Is Still Coming.
Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way. Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy—and is growing. Yet investors continue buying Treasury securities. No government bond sale has really failed, no one has suddenly refused to finance Washington's spending,
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Border Agents Nabbed Their Phones. These Two Floridians Are Fighting Back.
Jalal "Jay" Shehadeh had no reason to believe he was under suspicion from the government. A former assistant state attorney in Florida, he traveled frequently without problems and was preapproved for fast-track border access under the Global Entry program. And he had no problem getting through Israel's notoriously strict airport security while visiting family in the Palestinian territories. But on
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Which Parts of an Expert's ChatGPT History Related to Preparing Expert Report Must Be Disclosed?
From Judge Anne Traum (D. Nev.) Monday in Villanueva v. Las Vegas Metro. Police Dep't (the underlying lawsuit alleges a jail corrections officer abused plaintiff when plaintiff was arrested): Plaintiff Jose Villanueva sued Defendants Francis Soriano and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department ("LVMPD"), for violations of state and federal law that occurred while he was detained at Clark Count
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How Nikole Hannah-Jones Gets School Choice All Wrong
In the recent New York Times article " In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own ?" 1619 Project creator and MacArthur "genius grant" winner Nikole Hannah-Jones second-guesses her decision to send her daughter to a mediocre public school in New York City. While Hannah-Jones has received plaudits for honesty and frankness, today's guest, the education scholar Robert Pondiscio , says sh
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Trump's Iowa Steel Mill Is a Win for Steelmakers. What About Everyone Else?
President Donald Trump introduced sweeping tariffs last spring, boasting of how they would bolster American manufacturing. On Monday, just over a month before Americans head to the ballot box for the midterms, Trump announced a Minnesota company's plan to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa. "Mesabi Metallics will be building the largest steel plant in American history," Trump said in a press c
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Will Texas Turn Blue?
"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 Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear at the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), threatening not to support a Beshear presidential bid if the DGA fail
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Smoking Is Bad for You. Nicotine Isn't—but Politicians Keep Trying To Ban It.
Easthampton just became the 25th Massachusetts municipality to adopt a " nicotine-free generation " policy. Anyone born after January 1, 2006, will never be old enough to legally buy nicotine products there. The ban doesn't just apply to cigarettes. It also applies to noncombustible nicotine products that can help smokers reduce their risk. Decades of anti-smoking campaigns have dramatically reduc
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2 Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Month
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2026–2027 term officially kicks off on Monday. But you may be forgiven if you didn't realize the justices had actually gone away on a summer break. After all, the Court has certainly stayed busy enough over the past two months, issuing a number of high-profile orders and opinions on issues ranging from President Donald Trump's efforts to restrict the use of mail-in ballots
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Like Nikole Hannah-Jones, My Parents Put Ideology Over Pedagogy in Sending Me to Catholic School
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 structural or systemic racism, among other ills. She notes that she and her husband, who are both African American, attended integrated schools and
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The Case for Good Faith
I've never been sure how to pronounce it. Bo-nah feed-ays? Bah-nah fieds? The term bona fides trips me up every time. But it's an important concept, so I try my best. You might even say I make…a good faith effort. To argue in good faith—the literal translation of the Latin—means assuming that the person on the other side is saying what he actually believes and that disagreement is not itsel
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Brickbat: Thick as Thieves
An Oklahoma man is suing the Grady County Sheriff's Office for keeping his stolen property. Stacey McCurry said thieves stole his $6,000 Yamaha four-wheeler from his property in 2020. The sheriff's office recovered it in 2021, but McCurry did not learn about it until earlier this year, when it showed up in a national database for stolen items. When he tried to retrieve it, a deputy told him the de
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Justice Alito Says Recusal in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County a "Difficult Judgment Call"
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg reports on an interview with Justice Alito explaining the justice's last-minute decision to recuse in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County , the major climate change preemption case the Supreme Court will hear on Monday. According to the story, Justice Alito said it was a "difficult judgment call." From Stohr's report : Although Alito took part when the court agreed to hear the
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Cops Used AI Surveillance To Detain an Innocent Texas Driver. His Lawsuit Just Got the Program Struck Down.
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. The victory underscores that the Constitution requires searches to be reasonable and prohibits dragnet policing . On March 16, 2022, Alek Schott was driving home from a work trip near San Antonio, Texas, when he was
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Trump Wants AI Companies To Police Themselves. His FTC Isn't Waiting.
America's leading AI companies are getting exactly what they asked for. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence—a voluntary, if vacuous, agreement to self-police and adhere to the same set of rules signed by the leaders of America's top AI companies. It outlines four layers of controls and audits he'd like every AI company to implement. The president
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Trump Orders Mosquitoes and Rats Out of the District of Columbia
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 populations, as appropriate, by 90 percent and reduce the tick population by 50 percent, with further reductions as practicable." As a part-time res
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Why Is Seattle Keeping Her From Cleaning Up Trash?
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 issue also has spillover costs. Take, for example, the Evergreen State. "Washington state is experiencing the fifth-highest per-capita rate of unsheltered homelessness in the nation," the Washington Department of Ecology warned in 2020 . "O
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The FDA Promises To Streamline the Dauntingly Complex Rules for Approving Nicotine Products
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced that it is reevaluating its approach to approving nicotine products such as vapes and pouches. The Wall Street Journal reports that FDA officials want to "smooth the way for more tobacco products such as flavored vapes to legally enter the market by changing the rules to speed up the authorization process." That is good news for manufactur
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How Regulation, Immigration Policy, and Tariffs Made Your BLT More Expensive
Economist Leonard Read famously observed that no one on Earth is capable of single-handedly making a pencil. What about a sandwich? You can slap together a BLT—a bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, a classic of the deli counter—in a few minutes, and the ingredients will set you back no more than a few bucks. It's simple and delicious, which is all a good sandwich needs to be. But don't be fooled. The
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Americans Are Wealthier Than 30 Years Ago. Here's the Data To Prove It.
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 President Donald Trump likes to put it. You'll often hear a similar story of economic decline from figures on the political left too, although they
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You Can Now Sue Federal Agents in California. Good Luck Getting Past Qualified Immunity.
On Tuesday, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the No Kings Act (SB 747) into law, allowing Golden State residents to sue "every natural person who, under color of any law," violates their constitutional rights. Under the law—sponsored by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco)—government actors accused of violating a California resident's constitutional rights can no longer avoid ac
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