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Plus: Doctor admits to breaking Texas abortion law, why child care centers can't find workers, and more......

Prof. Stephen G. Gilles (Quinnipiac University School of Law) published this op-ed at Law & Liberty, but then had it removed by the President of Liberty Fund (the publisher of Law & Liberty) "over some concerns he had about unwanted attention." I ...

If anything, Josh was too gentle on Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's latest op-ed....

The defendant is accused of spraying Portland police officers with bear spray at a protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building....

9/20/1968: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission denied a certificate of no exterior effect to the Penn Central Transportation Co. The Supreme Court found that the City of New York did not violate the Takings Clause in Penn Central Transport...

Formal sentences cover for informal penalties including crowding, poor sanitation, beatings, and rape....

Telling a century's worth of stories about the people who had done creative things on the radio dial—and their opponents...

The Darebin, Australia, City Council has banned people who identify as men from applying for an opening for a street sweeper. The bottom of the job ad says the city is an "Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its selection and emplo...

Denniston: "In short, some more rigorous self-examination may be in order among the Justices of their own role in adding to the reputation of a Court that may have grown too political for its own good."...

He challenged Justice Barrett to "give a single instance where the conservative justices on the court took positions that were at odds with the views of the Republican Party."...

Measuring whether the arguments are unexpected, and whether the signatories are unexpected....

9/19/1907: Justice Lewis Powell's birthday....

A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence....

He performed an abortion in Texas after six weeks to set up a test case....

The expulsions, ordered by the CDC for the supposed purpose of stopping the spread of Covid-19, are illegal for much the same reasons as was CDC the eviction moratorium recently struck down by the Supreme Court....

So holds the Nevada Supreme Court, applying Nevada law....

From the Petition for Prohibition and Mandamus in Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest v. Chang, filed yesterday in the Hawaii Supreme Court: Civil No. 051863 has a "confidential4; case designation, and thus nothing in the case (parties, j...

Here and abroad, laws and policies meant to protect sustainability aren't delivering and cost a fortune....

9/18/1857: Justice John Hessin Clarke's birthday....

What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?...

It did recommend authorizing boosters for those over age 65...

Constitution Day is a good time to consider the issue of whether we have been overly accepting of some horrendous Supreme Court precedents. The Chinese Exclusion Case of 1889 is a great example....

The report from the attorney general's office also found that Aurora paramedics used ketamine illegally to treat "excited delirium."...

NYU's Eliza Sweren-Becker debates Hans von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation...

The plan would reduce supply while increasing demand, resulting in harmful shortages....

Rules are for the little people....

Seven children were among the 10 killed....

Dairy farm defamation, foreign speech, and a path of blood....

Price controls fail for other products, and liquor is no different....

Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10 would make it easier to build new housing in much of the state....

The president bemoans the incivility of politics while accusing Republicans of being "cavalier" about the potential for dead kids....

There are only a dozen new shows hitting the airwaves this month....

The Lonoke County sergeant was already fired for not turning on his body camera during the encounter....

To boldly bet where no man has bet before....

The law's "vagueness permits those in power to weaponize its enforcement against any group who wishes to express any message that the government disapproves of," Judge Mark Eaton Walker warns....

"The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized the authority of the United States...to seek equitable relief to vindicate various federal interests and constitutional guarantees."...

NYU's Eliza Sweren-Becker debates Hans von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation...

I wrote last month that I had moved to intervene and unseal certain documents in Nunes v. Lizza; though plaintiffs didn't consent to the lawsuit, they ended up not opposing, and the court yesterday agreed to release largely unredacted versions of the ...

So says the Seventh Circuit, agreeing with an earlier Second Circuit decision....

A new bill could give some hope to "Documented Dreamers."...

Clemency for nonviolent offenders would still send white-collar and other offenders back to prison after they've started putting their lives together again....

Plus: Pro-Palestine protests allowed outside synagogue, Biden's bank surveillance plan, and more......

It's time for some out-of-box thinking about school reform. What if we let the market do more work and relied on the state for less?...

"I don't do a lot of hand wringing in my opinions and tell people 'Oh, I'm really sad.' That's not the role of a judge. I mean, you do your job and you go cry alone."...

Jesus wept....

9/17/1787: The Constitution is signed. Happy Constitution Day!...

A constitutional throwback to 2013....

Free speech and occupational licensing collide....

The board game lets gamers indulge in a little cooperative epidemiological roleplay....

Unearthed relics tell the story of the long-forgotten Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured the likes of Nina Simone, B.B. King, and Stevie Wonder....