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From Judge Leo Sorokin's decision Monday in U.S. v. Joseph: The government has charged Massachusetts District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and Massachusetts Trial Court Officer Wesley MacGregor in an Indictment alleging conspiracy and obstru...

DHS Secretary Wolf Withdrew the 2017 Dukes Memorandum and the 2018 Nielsen Memorandum. Attorney General Barr withdrew the 2014 OLC Opinion on DAPA and Sessions 2017 Letter to Dukes....

Competition is cutting the cost of space travel to a fraction of what it was....

An encounter between militias in Louisville shows the enduring practical and symbolic importance of the right to armed self-defense....

Yesterday was pro-Chief Justice Roberts day on CNN. Today is pro-Justice Gorsuch day. Justice Kagan is lurking in the background....

Much of the military spending in the GOP's HEALS Act replaces funding that was redirected to pay for Trump's border wall....

Nor did the suspect live at the residence....

What does this have to do with safely educating kids in the midst of a pandemic? Not much....

"Weiss's comments were also steeped in 'rage and frustration,' and they were indisputably violent. Nonetheless, read in context, the statements predicted that other people would hurt Senator McConnell, not that Weiss would."...

"The First Amendment limits Congress; Congress does not limit the First Amendment."...

The party rejects a position shared by two-thirds of the country (but not its presidential nominee)....

Arizona, D.C., Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Washington; Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon; possibly Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wyoming, Guam....

The 2012 internal affairs report complaint was filed by a use-of-force instructor who warned the advice could lead to lawsuits....

Via a SuperPAC, Thiel is promoting conservative nationalism via the former Kansas secretary of state and current U.S. Senate contender....

The event will be held on August 13, and is free and open to the public....

Senate Republicans announced Monday that the federal government will pay an additional $200 per week in unemployment benefits. The $600 per week benefits boost will expire on July 31....

Plus: The EARN IT Act is "a wolf in sheep's clothing," Joe Biden's "Agenda for Women," and more......

Both outlawry and cancel culture grow out of the same human impulse toward ostracism, the desire to exclude offenders from "respectable"; society....

Chief Justice Marshall wrote pseudonymous editorials after McCulloch v. Maryland. Justice Stewart wrote a letter to the editor of the WSJ after Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Company....

7/28/1880: San Francisco prohibits operation of laundires in wood buildings, "without having first obtained the consent of the board of supervisors." The Supreme Court found this ordinance unconstitutional in Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)....

Commander Kyle Gordon, of London's Metropolitan Police, is defending officers who arrested a 12-year-old boy for playing with a BB gun. The officers, accompanied by police dogs, raided the home of the boy's family after someone reported seeing a b...

Episode 326 of the Cyberlaw Podcast...

The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications opines....

Why are "multiple sources familiar with the inner workings of the court" talking to the press?...

Safe and effective vaccines by the end of this year?...

The summer of 2020 got a lot crappier over the weekend, according to the Reason Roundtable podcast....

"Garrett Foster understood that libertarianism was about speaking on behalf of those who are the most acutely affected by the abuses perpetrated by an overly aggressive and unaccountable government."...

An interesting decision stemming from a dispute about whether the Spamhaus Project properly placed DatabaseUSA.com on a blocklist....

A National Guard officer will testify that the June 1 clearing of protesters outside the White House was "an unnecessary escalation of the use of force" and "deeply disturbing."...

A federal judge gags the New York Civil Liberties Union, but a media outlet manages to collect and publish a database of misbehaving cops....

The American University professor called for "drug peace" at a time when both major parties were committed to ever-escalating violence....

The theoretical case for government mask mandates has to be weighed against the reality of their enforcement....

The FDA and the NIH each require as a condition of funding that scientists break down their data by a totally unscientific "race" classifications....

These are not "peaceful protests."...

However necessary a federal presence may be in some places, DHS should leave the CBP at home....

Another blow to the country's few remaining independent news outlets...

Post your recommendations here....

Drinking outside would be OK if the government considered you an adult....

Government agents brutalizing people are in the wrong, whether or not we sympathize with those on the receiving end....

The Chief Justice's votes against injunctive relief for churches, voters, and those on death row are of a piece....

Plus: Gun groups for black Americans are growing, a promising new study on opening schools, and more......

Police in Golden Valley, Minnesota, used drones to see if anyone was bathing nude or topless on a secluded beach on Twin Lake. Nude and topless sunbathing is illegal, but bathers have been stripping off at that beach for decades. Police Sgt. Randy Mahlen ...

D.C., Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Washington, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Broward County (Florida), Urbana (Illinois), Harford, Howard, Prince George's Counties (Maryland), Lansing (Michigan)....

Law schools can help their students present better interviews over videoconferences....

https://youtu.be/GO72xyaGwDs I much enjoyed doing this, and I hope you have fun watching it!...

Sally Ness, a community activist, wants to record use of the park by a local Islamic school's students; she alleges the school overuses the park, in violation of the school's Conditional Use Permit....

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

In 1933, a coalition of Wisconsin dairy farmers protested the collapse of milk prices by intercepting shipments headed to market and dumping milk cans. The strikers hoped that reducing the supply would drive up prices. Today, dairy farmers in Wisconsin an...

There's peaceful, and then there's intensely peaceful....

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Madison, and Guam...