My Duke Center for Firearms Law piece on why laws forcing private property owners to allow guns on their premises violate property rights and often qualify as takings requiring compensation under the Fifth Amendment.
Evidence mounts in Bucha, Ukraine, indicating that Russian troops killed civilians arbitrarily and mercilessly.
The less of our lives we allow to be put to a vote, the better.
For most of the past decade-plus, those complaining the loudest about corporate participation in politics have been Democrats.
A regulatory filing indicates that Musk is now the company's largest shareholder.
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The Post Office's inspector general uncovers unrestricted online snooping by postal cops without any legal authority.
"We certainly don't want parents getting in trouble because their kids were playing on the playground," says Gov. Jared Polis
"They should be paying us for burnishment—not suing us for tarnishment."
The vague wording of the bill has led to a culture war fight about what the text means, and that’s never good for the First Amendment.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is leading his nation a just cause. But we should not allow him to impose censorship and emigration bans in the process. A nation fighting for freedom must not undermine it.
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Cameras and tracking technology purchased to battle COVID-19 will be a lingering affliction.
No, says the Appeals Court of Massachusetts: "We take this opportunity to reiterate that, where a c. 258E order is sought on the basis of speech alone, the plaintiff must prove that the speech rose to the level of true threats or fighting words and not merely that it was 'harassing, intimidating, or abusive in the colloquial sense.'"
An Arkansas police officer used trumped-up charges to punish a man who criticized him for violating the Constitution.
Out of 27,900 research publications on gun laws, only 123 tested their effects rigorously.
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So holds the California Court of Appeal, in sending back to a different judge defendant's motion to retroactively downgrade her conviction (for non-slur resistance to the officers) to a misdemeanor.
The police officers who allegedly framed William Virgil were denied qualified immunity. But they're still trying to delay a trial.
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The argument for loosening restrictions on armed self-defense goes beyond the measurable impact on public safety.
State-level "gag orders" on teaching certain texts and ideas are terrible and utterly predictable in a one-size-fits-all K-12 educational system.
DeRay Mckesson didn’t cause or encourage violence against police in Baton Rouge in 2016. The court says he can still be held responsible.
Now the critic's First Amendment lawsuit over this (and other matters) can go forward.
apply to a judge's home when the judge is participating in judicial proceedings remotely?
"This is an institution of higher learning, not a town square, and no one should interfere with others' efforts to carry on activities on campus. YLS is a professional school, and this is not how lawyers interact."
A wake-up call for the woke
The comedian won last night's Oscars by telling bad jokes, dealing with the consequences, refusing to escalate or apologize, and doing his damn job.
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The officer used a "pain compliance maneuver" to force information from the boy's sister, who was recording the encounter.
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There's a particular richness to Republican senators weaponizing the right to defense counsel as an affront to the Constitution as opposed to something that's pivotal to it.
The editorial board of UVA's The Cavalier Daily should abandon its effort to keep Mike Pence off campus.
What counts as "bullying and harassing" behavior, you might ask? The bill doesn't say.
