Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders Pretends Prisoners Are Patients
The practice evades constitutional constraints by casting punishment and preventive detention as treatment.
The practice evades constitutional constraints by casting punishment and preventive detention as treatment.
He is on firmer ground in arguing that the Senate does not have the authority to try a former president, although that issue is highly contested.
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Our long record of peaceful transfers of power now has an asterisk on it.
Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro persistently promoted the wild claims of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
Fourth Amendment advocates prevail in Wingate v. Fulford.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is suing on her behalf.
Law enforcement has more than enough tools already, argues former Senator Russ Feingold in the Wall Street Journal
I've been seeing many such libel lawsuits recently, though only a few have gone so far as to yield a verdict for the libel plaintiff.
There is no other way to prevent the games from becoming a propaganda showcase for a brutally oppressive regime.
A forthcoming panel Thu., Feb. 11, 2 to 3 pm Pacific, organized by the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy.
The Russian opposition leader will be sent to a penal colony for failing to meet with probation officers while he was comatose due to poisoning.
Sheila Jackson Lee's sweeping licensing and registration scheme suggests what Democrats would do if they didn't have to worry about the Second Amendment.
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
There's a silver lining to partisan demagogues taking up peaceful entrepreneurship.
Adopting "counterinsurgency" tactics for use against wide swaths of Americans can only make the situation worse.
The federal government should prosecute those people who committed acts of vandalism or violence. However, we should be leery about giving the feds additional powers.
Each episode explores how to fix laws that entrench privacy-violating practices.
"The University’s responsibility to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression cannot be outsourced."
The warden at the center of the case was originally given qualified immunity.
A state law eliminated qualified immunity as a defense for abusive officers.
An interesting ruling involving the University of Minnesota, by Judge Patrick Schiltz (himself a former professor).
It’s a terrible idea that violates Section 230, but is it actually unconstitutional? Don’t be so sure.
You want more censorship? Go ahead, repeal Section 230.
They also argue that the Senate has no authority to try a former president.
The House brief does a solid job of laying out the case against Trump. The defense brief is far less impressive.
More than 5,000 people were detained across Russia on Sunday
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Plus a special appearance by The Princess Bride and Weekend at Bernie's.
The State Bar of Georgia is demanding that the pro-Trump lawyer undergo a mental health evaluation.
The defendant swore a Verizon store employee "cupped her breast and touched her inner thigh," but surveillance video showed otherwise.
Consumers aren't confused about where plant milks come from. Quite the opposite, in fact.
It was terrible for free speech on the radio dial. We shouldn't inflict it on the internet too.
Government will happily suppress misinformation in favor of misinformation of its own.
applied by a federal court in a case involving Juul Labs.
A decision in the case of Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith, denying his motion to dismiss.
Meanwhile, he’s still trying to downplay corruption within his own force.
May public schools punish students for off-campus social media posts?
So the Eighth Circuit held yesterday, distinguishing the @RealDonaldTrump case on the grounds that the Trump account was used for much more official activity.
California statutes suggest the answer may be no, so long as the firing is based on the political activity, and not on criminal conduct.
A federal court said it did not violate her Fourth Amendment rights.