Civil Liberties
When Government Urges Private Entities to Restrict Others' Speech
Jen Psaki's comments about the government "flagging problematic posts for Facebook" raises the issue; so does Donald Trump's lawsuit against social media platforms, based on government statements that allegedly coerced those platforms.
How Louisiana Perfected the Speed Trap
Want to fight your ticket? Welcome to mayor’s court, where your accuser is also your judge.
Biden Charges Facebook With Homicide, While His Surgeon General Recommends 'Legal and Regulatory Measures' To Suppress COVID-19 'Misinformation'
Speech is protected by the First Amendment even when it discourages vaccination.
Judge Says 'Fuck Biden' Signs Are Obscenity and Orders Their Removal
Plus: Facebook blamed for missed Biden vaccine goal, court sides with CDC in cruise ship battle, and more...
What Happens to Discredited Drug Cops? They Get Rebranded as Gun Cops.
Ripped for use of excessive force, the Springfield, Massachusetts, Narcotics Bureau is becoming a Firearms Investigation Unit.
A Qualified Immunity Compromise Is Crumbling. You Can Thank the Law Enforcement Lobby.
Police unions so often protect their own—at the expense of the public.
Federal Agencies Can't Resist Using and Abusing Facial Recognition
Some agencies don't even know ways their employees are using facial recognition.
The Government Should Stop Telling Facebook To Suppress COVID-19 'Misinformation'
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki wants the social media site to ban 12 specific anti-vaccine accounts.
Iranian Operatives Plotted To Kidnap Brooklyn Journalist
From the other side of the world, the regime plots ways to chill free speech.
Want To Close the Tax Gap? Cut Taxes.
It would require our enormous government to become less gluttonous with the people's resources.
Will the Internet Destroy Cuba's Communist Dictatorship?
Historic protests enabled by social media and cellphone footage are threatening to finally end Castro's revolutionary regime.
Postal Censorship and Surveillance: A Timeline
The government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters
Maine Becomes 4th State To Repeal Civil Asset Forfeiture
A new law will require a criminal conviction before property can be seized.
Catherine Lhamon, Once and Future Title IX Czar, Says Campus Rules Don't Require 'Presumption of Innocence'
Her response to questions from the Senate HELP committee were disqualifying.
Barely Legal Teens Can Legally Buy Guns, Appeals Court Says
Fourth Circuit overturns laws barring licensed gun dealers from selling handguns to 18–20-year-olds.
A Federal Judge Considering Sanctions Against Pro-Trump Lawyers Says They Made 'Fantastical' Election Fraud Claims Without Even 'Minimal Vetting'
Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell says the sheer volume of the affidavits she collected shows she exercised due diligence.
Anthony Fauci Is Wrong About the Need for 3-Year-Olds To Wear Masks
Unvaccinated children have as much protection as vaccinated adults.
Abigail Shrier Worries Teenage Gender Transitions Lead to 'Irreversible Damage'
The controversial author on her acclaimed and condemned book, being deplatformed, and the future of free expression in an increasingly polarized marketplace of ideas
The Trade Embargo Allows Cuba's Regime To Blame the U.S. for Communism's Failings
President Joe Biden says America "stands firmly" with the people of Cuba who oppose the country's oppressive regime. But he can do more than offer words of support.
4th Cir. Panel Affirms Second Amendment Rights of 18-to-20-Year-Olds
The panel strikes down the federal statute that bans professional gun dealers from selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-olds.
New York's Next Mayor: Gun Rights for Me, but Not for Thee
Eric Adams insists on a double standard that lets former cops like him escape the firearm restrictions everyone else has to follow.
Cubans Cry for 'Freedom'
Plus: Texas parolee prosecuted for voting, tales from the eviction moratorium, and more...
The USPS' Semi-Secret Internet Surveillance Apparatus
The agency best known for delivering mail has a side hustle in online snooping.
Some Potentially Racially Offensive Terms Can't Be Trademarked—Because They're Too Common, Not Because They're Racially Offensive
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board rejects the mark “Nigga” for clothing, because it’s so commonly used by others that it doesn’t serve to identify the applicant’s products (logic that equally applies to "Team Jesus," "Texas Love," and "God Bless the USA").
Utah Woman Charged With Hate Crime for Stomping on 'Back the Blue' Sign
The case is yet another instance of law enforcement using hate crime enhancements to punish people for criticizing them.
Bronx Conservatory of Music Can't Seal Sexual Harassment Counterclaim Against It
"Bronx Conservatory does not cite (and this Court has not found) any case, in this jurisdiction or elsewhere, in which an employer accused of sexual harassment has succeeded in sealing the pleading containing that accusation on any of the grounds asserted here."
