Politics: Right

Undecided folks seem to be turning against the governor....

A week after granting summary judgment for another defendant (CEI), the judge rejects all but one of the proffered experts....

Around half a million Americans are stuck at any given time in pretrial detention, often because they can't afford freedom....

Managers and employees are clashing about working from home....

Paid plasma donation is a financial lifeline for Mexican donors and a medical lifeline for plasma-dependent patients....

The technological hurdles might be too difficult to overcome, but it's worth trying....

Plus: Americans evenly split on immigration, bill moves to stop EPA raids of auto shops, and more......

Watch what happens when the drive for government surveillance meets longstanding technological ignorance....

From the Minnesota disorderly conduct statute: Whoever does any of the following in a public or private place, including on a school bus, knowing, or having reasonable grounds to know that it will, or will tend to, alarm, anger or disturb others or provok...

7/27/1929: The Geneva Conventions are signed by United States. The Supreme Court would consider the Conventions in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)....

It is easy to be indifferent to a war if you are oblivious to its costs....

Officials in Gold Coast, Australia, have fined a woman $1,300 ($960 U.S.) for violating her hotel quarantine by having cigarettes delivered to the balcony of her room by a drone. Those entering the country are required to quarantine for two weeks. The ope...

The word "pistol," it turns out, is borrowed indirectly from Czech....

The case is 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis; the majority opinion is by Judge Mary Briscoe, joined by Judge Michael Murphy, with a dissent by Chief Judge Timothy Tymkovich. This was just handed down, so I thought I'd pass it along; I hope to blog more abou...

From Henry v. County of Nassau, decided today by the Second Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Steven Menashi, joined by Judges John Walker and Susan Carney: In 2014, the daughter of Plaintiff-Appellant Lambert Henry commenced an ex parte proceeding against ...

Bezos pitched in by creating an online marketplace of cheap consumer goods that people can get delivered to their homes in two days flat....

A very interesting, thoughtful, and learned analysis from Prof. Genevieve Lakier (Chicago), at LawFare; here's the introduction: For years now, scholars have expressed alarm at the tendency of government officials to use informal means, rather than de...

We all do them!...

Why is the government encouraging people to live in dangerous, flood-prone areas?...

Circuit Judge John K. Bush accuses the federal government of laying claim to "near-dictatorial powers."...

Just learned about it by accident; for more details, see http://whiteearth.com. My guess: They get some confused e-mail, which they find amusing. For a structurally similar example, check out the Oriental Republic....

"New York enacted its firearm licensing requirements to criminalize gun ownership by racial and ethnic minorities."...

I didn't know until I looked it up just now....

No, says, a July 6 Memorandum Opinion of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel: Section 564 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA") authorizes the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to issue an "emergency use auth...

Law review editors and lawyers, take note....

On the plus side, Chief Justice Roberts won't have to resign....

Today's antitrust activists forget that big companies with significant market share come and go....

Authorities have a beef with Remy's latest occupation....

Plus: Adam Smith invented the social software for modern liberalism, the U.K. invites more skilled immigrants, and more......

Every time cops denounce reform efforts it is evidence of a win....

I never thought that teaching my law students basic word processing principles would be part of my professorial duties; but since I started my First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, I realized that, if I didn't teach them this, it would ultimately mean ...

7/26/1892: Justice George Shiras Jr. takes oath....

A family has sued Kentucky's Jefferson County Public Schools after their then 6-year-old daughter was dragged 1,147 feet by a school bus in 2015. The girl's backpack got caught in the door as she stepped off. The driver did not watch her to make s...

The Olympics are a great sports event. But there is no reason to tolerate the massive public subsidies, forced displacement of populations, and propaganda coups for authoritarian regimes that go along with them....

It's the CosAppeals, in Maryland....

7/25/1965: Justice Arthur J. Goldberg resigns....

What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state...

So holds a Ninth Circuit panel (by a 2-1 vote), evaluating the California closure rules....

Language regarding seed exchanges could violate contracts....

7/24/1997: Justice William Brennan dies....

We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans....

The law enforcement agency has a disturbing record of drumming up the very conspiracies they're investigating....

The ruling is unsurprising. But it does further strengthen the case against the moratorium, and increases the odds the issue might eventually make it to the Supreme Court....

Canadian County Sheriff's deputies said Thai Nang's cash was drug money. He says he was buying land, and a local news outlet was easily able to find records backing his story up....

"Hopefully, [Professor Howard B. Stravitz] would have joined in the dissent."...

Mocking penis-shaped rockets is no substitute for holding the feds accountable for a looming fiscal crisis....

Expanding government-imposed burdens to new classes of people is a bad idea, unless the goal is equality of immiseration....

Innovative orthodontics, cumulative explosions, and voting by proxy....

The Sixth Circuit's decision is at odds with that of the D.C. Circuit, and features a Judge Thapar concurrence on delegation....

The governor signed a bill in May limiting the power of state and local officials to impose emergency public health orders....