A federal statute imposes liability for conspiracies "to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner" for the election of federal candidates, or for "injur[ing] any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy."
David Cole writes, Ira Glasser and Wendy Kaminer respond. [UPDATE: Added Cole's reply.]
Press accounts had said he “had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls” and that he had told a 14-year-old girl at the mall “she looked pretty.” "But viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Moore, the court finds that telling viewers that Moore was banned from the mall for soliciting sex from a 14-year-old Santa’s Helper is more stinging than telling viewers that Moore complimented a 14-year-old girl on her appearance or telling them more generally that Moore was banned from the mall for soliciting young girls.”
Politicians respond to often unfounded fears with aggressive laws that interfere with individual and family choices.
"I can't think of any other situation where we would change the words of an alleged rape victim."
The Secret City author explains how panic about homosexuality led to discrimination, bad policy, and, eventually, freedom.
Because there is no reliable way to identify future mass shooters, it is inevitable that many innocent people will lose their Second Amendment rights.
Heard won $2 million on one of her counterclaims.
National Legal Director David Cole insists that the critics are wrong, but he fails to contend with much of the substance of their critiques.
Faculty/Administrator Safety Training & Emergency Response (FASTER)
Democrats love to blame their troubles on Senate rules. They should look in the mirror instead.
Plus: Who's bringing fentanyl across the border? Will Austin become a sanctuary city for abortion? And more...
While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
The ruling is not a final decision on the merits. But it likely signals that at least five Supreme Court justices believe the law is unconstitutional.
Justices Thomas and Gorsuch join Justice Alito's dissent, and Justice Kagan disagreed with the majority without opinion. This is not a decision on the merits of the law, but Justice Alito's dissent notes why the answer to the merits question is "quite unclear."
Plus: The editors contemplate the recent Libertarian National Convention.
The lawsuit over Timpa's deadly prone restraint, initially blocked by qualified immunity, was revived by the 5th Circuit.
Ideas Beyond Borders is bringing ideas about pluralism, civil liberties, and critical thinking to hotbeds of Islamic extremism.
No hollow promise can replace our attachments to our children, spouses, friends, and our own lives.
$50K in funding was withdrawn by a Brooklyn councilwoman, and transferred to a different organization.
Two federal appeals courts recently concluded that such age restrictions are unconstitutional.
Painting "Black Lives Matter" doesn't require New York to allow other groups to paint other slogans.
The Charleston (West Virginia) incident from a few days ago, the FBI 2021 statistics, and more.
David Kopel at the National Firearms Law Seminar
An isolated sexually themed passage, even a graphic one, doesn't make a work obscene.
"There were 19 officers in there," said a police spokesperson. "In fact, there were plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done."
It's chiefly because Virginia doesn't recognize nonmutual collateral estoppel, of course!
So a district court held Tuesday.
"The platform's choice to release this special now, during a wave of unprecedented anti-trans legislation, is unconscionable," according to Vox.
You absolutely, positively shouldn't be allowed to read it. Definitely forbidden.
A "private educational institution owes a [tort law] duty, independent of any contractual promises, to adopt fair procedures and to implement those procedures with reasonable care when investigating and adjudicating claims of sexual misconduct by one student against another."
Why did it take an hour for the police to stop alleged killer Salvador Ramos?
This finding is now being used as a basis for seeking a restraining order banning Barnes & Noble from distributing the books to minors. Is that constitutional?
An assessment of claims that Justice Alito's draft opinion rests on historical error, provides no meaningful basis for distinguishing abortion from other unenumerated rights, and forecloses constitutional protection of the mother's life.
The Institute for Justice, which represented the critic, so reports.
Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.
The underlying lawsuit was brought by Mickell Lowery, a Commissioner for Shelby County (which contains Memphis)—and son of longtime Memphis City Councilman Myron Lowery, who had also briefly served as Mayor—over allegedly libelous statements during his election campaign.
as applied to "program that would train non-lawyers to give [free] legal advice to low-income New Yorkers who face debt collection actions" about how to "fill out checkboxes on a one-page answer form provided by the State."
A federal lawsuit argues that the department's regulations violate due process, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment.
Making schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
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