The Trump Administration Says Its Speech-Based Deportation Policy 'Does Not Exist'
The government’s lawyers also say that supposedly nonexistent policy is perfectly consistent with the First Amendment.
The government’s lawyers also say that supposedly nonexistent policy is perfectly consistent with the First Amendment.
Why Edward Snowden deserves not only a presidential pardon, but a hero's welcome home.
The case settled while motions for summary judgment were pending; the plaintiff, Prof. Timothy Jackson, had prevailed against an earlier motion to dismiss, and the Fifth Circuit had also rejected defendants' appeal as to procedural matters.
But speech sharply critical of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and of Sharia (and thus perhaps of traditionalist Islam) had been found, by the same commission, to be unethical.
When Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick is worried about our constitutional order, we should all pay heed.
The taxes on sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, originally enacted in 1934, were meant to be prohibitive, imposing bans in the guise of raising revenue.
Several of the items on the Declaration's list of grievances against King George III also apply to Donald Trump today.
"[T]he heart of the district court's analysis in denying Brooks's initial motion was its conclusion that the litigation would not require Brooks to disclose the information that he had filed under seal. But, in some respects, the district court's order did just that—it put the information that Brooks had filed under seal on the public docket."
Perhaps the one thing Americans still have in common is our eagerness to criticize government.
From the Eleventh Circuit, a reminder that First Amendment protections against government employer action are much weaker than the protections against the government as sovereign (especially, but not only, when the speech is also "disrespectful, demeaning, rude, and insulting").
In recent years, exclusionary zoning and other regulatory restrictions have begun to block housing construction in areas where it was once relatively easy.
The appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction that had been based on her First Amendment rights
So an Eleventh Circuit panel held today, by a 2-1 vote.
Legal experts are concerned that immigration judges with only six weeks of training will not uphold constitutional protections for migrants.
The company's surrender to Trump's extortion vindicates his strategy of using frivolous litigation and his presidential powers to punish constitutionally protected speech.
The Justice Department cannot constitutionally prosecute a news outlet for covering the news.
Plaintiff claimed that the search results violated his "right of publicity," and also that the output was defamatory because it "uses a 'negative algorithm' that promotes negative stories about Garmon while suppressing positive stories about him—or, at least, pushing the positive stories down the list of search results."
The owners faced fines of up to $18,000 for keeping the pig within city limits.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
Today's D.C. Circuit decision muddies the matter still further.
New laws aimed at protecting kids online won’t work, and could even make things worse. Parents, not politicians, are the best defense against digital dangers.
And the U.S. Constitution doesn't preclude this result.
"So whatever hard to imagine rationalization Haverford might offer for obscuring the content of its actual bias policy—an artifice reminiscent of Dean Wormer's 'double secret probation'—I find the demarcation 'draft' to be of no legal import."
Jim Ryan is the latest casualty in Trump's unconstitutional war against elite universities.
Plus: Conservatives won big overall this year at the Supreme Court.
The panelists included Peter Byrne (Georgetown), Wesley Horton (counsel for New London in the case), Timothy Sandefur (Goldwater Institute), and myself.
Alexandra Weaver argued that she could not reasonably have been expected to know her actions were unconstitutional.
The child, and her 12-year-old brother, were left under the supervision of a neighbor by the mother, who left town for six days for a foreign job interview.
"[B]oth parties exchanged these Snapchat videos while they were intoxicated and their judgment was impaired. Notwithstanding, the communications were private and intended to be jokes between close friends."
America is slipping steadily down the slippery slope to a surveillance state.
The Supreme Court's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton weakens the First Amendment rights of adults everywhere.
Democratic critics of the new program overlook the injustice of permanently disarming Americans who pose no threat to public safety.
More government agencies are using facial recognition for enforcement than ever before.
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