If Biden Is Serious About Criminal Justice Reform, He Needs To Get Serious About Qualified Immunity
The doctrine shields state actors from accountability.
The doctrine shields state actors from accountability.
States had been trying to stop the Feds from loosening their hold on certain software, but the Appeals Court says they don't have that power
Under current law, marijuana users who possess firearms are committing a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
And yet neither Democrats nor Republicans represent those principles.
New York, like several other states, limits public carrying of handguns to the favored few.
Section 702 is supposed to be used to snoop on spies and terrorists, not Americans.
Plus: 15,000 marijuana prosecutions pardoned, the latest sex trafficking urban legend, and more...
Say what you will about the U.S., but its financial reporting rules are at least consistent.
The article is co-written by Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard), a leading scholar of race and the law, and me.
If public health scolds get their way, they will worsen the nation’s overcriminalization problem.
If you're going to attack Mark Zuckerberg for cozying up to Xi Jinping, maybe you should try harder not to sound like a Chinese dictator.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments next term in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett.
The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.
Montana's new law refusing to help enforce federal gun restrictions is similar to liberal "sanctuary cities'" refusal to assist in federal immigration enforcement. Both are protected by Constitution.
with Center head Jeffrey Rosen; Katie Fallow, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute; and me.
So the New York intermediate appellate court held yesterday, by a 3-2 vote.
A new RAND analysis shows how difficult it is to answer basic questions about this rare variety of homicide.
More than half of Americans don’t have these new licenses. Airports are supposed to start checking them by October.
"There's this growing gap between what's on paper and what is enforceable in law," says Kareem Shaya, the co-founder of Open Source Defense.
The GOP has resisted reining in the doctrine. That might change.
If you support the duty to retreat (before using deadly force), what do you think of the duty to "comply[] with a demand ... [to] abstain from performing an act"?
Plus: U.S. approves sanctions on Myanmar's state-run businesses, Howard University dissolves its classics department, and more...
Most victims of police misconduct never get to take their cases to court.
A 2018 Supreme Court decision was supposed to protect your location data from federal snooping. That’s not what happened.
If small arms can’t defeat a modern military, why are the people of Myanmar so determined to fight for freedom?
But what exactly do these terms mean?
By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
Judge Stephanos Bibas "does not see how" he can follow the plurality opinion
An interesting conversation I had with UMass law professor (and associate dean) Shaun Spencer, organized by the UMass Law Federalist Society.
Now 14 states have legislation explicitly protecting free speech on campus.
From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.
Although police seized the perpetrator's shotgun when he was deemed suicidal, he was never identified as a potential murderer.
"The notion that a school can discipline a student for that kind of...non-harassing expression is contrary to our First Amendment tradition."
Unsurprisingly, the court also refuses to order private caselaw repositories and search engines to hide the information.
Both advocates and skeptics of the copycat theory recommend self-restraint by the news media.
Among other things, it calls for online censorship to shield identities of public officials and lets the governor control city police budgets.
Documentary short Do Not Split draws the ire of Beijing.