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Month: January 2026
ICE vs. Wine Moms, Rogan on Fauci's Crimes, and the Star Wars Prequels
A delightfully chaotic episode of Freed Up where the hosts discuss how Minnesota wine moms have taken to the streets and the Star Wars prequels somehow end up on trial—again
ICE Agents Flouted DHS Policies That Could Have Prevented Renee Good's Death
DHS tells officers to use "de-escalation tactics," employ "a verbal warning" instead of force when feasible, and avoid "placing themselves in positions" that trigger the use of deadly force.
Video Shows Feds Shooting ICE Protester With Nonlethal Round at Point-Blank Range, Blinding Him in One Eye
The incident raises more questions about federal agents' use-of-force policies and training.
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Bad aim, conjugal visits, and a cavalier gun dealer.
Do Cellphones Cause Cancer? RFK Jr.'s HHS Is Suppressing FDA Data Confirming Cellphone Safety.
The Department of Health and Human Services is launching a study apparently trying to find otherwise.
She Let Her 6-Year-Old Ride to the Park Alone. Georgia Called It Neglect.
Despite a new state law protecting childhood independence, child welfare officials accused these Atlanta parents of neglect—and put their family under surveillance.
Trump's Push To Restore 'Truth and Sanity in American History' Tests Nonpartisan Institutions
Politically-motivated firings and increased executive branch scrutiny set “a dangerous precedent,” warns a former archivist of the United States.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Delivers Anarchy in the U.K., Again
A zombie movie where mystical evil turns out to be a blonde guy named Jimmy.
Fix the AI Electricity 'Crisis' by Unleashing Market Forces
The AI boom is showing the limits of our regulated monopoly model for generating electricity.
Greenlanders Don't Consent To Becoming Americans
Residents of the chilly island coveted by President Trump favor independence—and subsidies.
Review: D.C.'s $500 Million Shrine to Capitalism
The new Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in Washington, D.C., sidesteps its founder's complicated history.
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When a Justice Shares The Name With The Party
Justice Barrett did not write Barrett v. United States, but other Justices wrote the majority opinion who shared a name with a party.
Hecox May Still Hide In Justice Kennedy's Shadow
There is nothing originalist about Footnote Four, animus, and suspect classes. Let it go already.
Second Amendment Roundup: Hawaii's Ban on Firearms on Property Open to the Public
In Wolford, the Supreme Court should clarify the facial/as-applied issue.
When Is a Corporation Also New Jersey?
A few thoughts on the oral argument in Galette v. N.J. Transit Corp.
Yes, the Middle Class Is Shrinking—Because It's Moving Up
The real squeeze comes from government-distorted markets, not economic decline.
Renee Good Was a Casualty of Trump's Order Against 'Political Violence'
The administration's written policies make it likely that more people like Renee Good will be targets, and victims, of ICE.
American Quartz Manufacturers Want To Make Kitchen Countertops Even More Expensive
Their trade group filed a petition asking the government to impose quotas and a 50 percent tariff on all imported quartz.
Can You Waive A Substantive Canon?
Justice Gorsuch suggested that the West Virginia did not raise the clear statement rule, Justice Sotomayor countered that a substantive canon cannot be waived.
What If A Supreme Court Case Becomes Moot Before June?
Hecox will not graduate in May, but such mootness could have arisen in King v. Burwell.
Seizing Greenland Might Be the Least Popular Idea in American Political History
This foolish, unnecessary, bellicose idea is running up against the "Lizardman's Constant."
Andrew Hale Leaves Heritage for Advancing American Freedom
"I can roll with policy changes, but what I can't roll with is a tolerance or an overlooking of antisemitism or any form of bigotry."
Heating Up
Plus: School integration, retribution for Iran, death to credentialism, and more...
Eyes on Gorsuch as SCOTUS Weighs Transgender Student Athlete Bans
Plus: Still waiting on the tariffs case.
'We Cannot Be Afraid To Do Something Because the Left Might Do It in the Future'
Vice President J.D. Vance on the nature of power
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Justice Sotomayor Asks "Have You Studied The People" In SCOTUS Cases.
I have. Conservative litigants are vilified. Liberal litigants are celebrated.
The As-Applied/Facial Fad Comes for the Equal Protection Clause
Justice Kagan ponders at great length about whether there can be an as-applied challenge based on the Equal Protection Clause.
Trump's Unconstitutional Plan to Withhold all Federal Funding From Sanctuary Cities and States
The plan violates multiple constituitonal provisions and goes against Supreme Court precedent. If somehow allowed to stand, it would gravely imperil federalism and the separation of powers.
Second Amendment Roundup: Important Wolford Brief Addresses Bruen Methodology
Prof. Alicea explains the proper way to apply Bruen.
Second Amendment Roundup: An Opportunity to Clarify 1791 vs. 1868
Time period to assess Second Amendment rights may arise in Wolford argument.
Ohio State Student's Posts Urging "Resistance and Escalation" in Response to Israel's Actions in Gaza Protected by First Amendment
So holds a court, reversing student Guy Christensen's "disenrollment." The student also wrote, responding to the murder of two Israeli embassy employees in D.C. outside the Capital Jewish Museum, "I do not condemn the elimination of those two Zionist officials."
