Can Senseless Gun Regulations Be Constitutional?
Under New York's rules, licensed pistol and revolver owners were not allowed to leave home with their handguns unless they were traveling to or from a shooting range.
Under New York's rules, licensed pistol and revolver owners were not allowed to leave home with their handguns unless they were traveling to or from a shooting range.
Nobody is being misled by this obviously joking debate clip. But this sort of ginned-up outrage will be used to target political opponents.
How the press learned to stop worrying and love censorship.
Americans are so locked into their political sides that many of them seem willing to cast aside some of the nation's long-established constitutional protections.
What’s at stake in United States v. Sineneng-Smith.
A clear constitutional violation.
The ruling may well be both correct and consistent with the same court's earlier ruling in favor of a different set of plaintiffs arising from the same events. But the opinion does still have a few notable flaws.
The Institute for Justice calls on the Supreme Court to put a stop to it.
The mob strategy is morally and practically flawed.
The findings shared by Inspector General Michael Horowitz revealed some rotten practices at the FBI and a major media blindspot.
The presidential candidate’s gun control platform, like his defense of "stop and frisk," sacrifices civil liberties on the altar of public safety.
The lawsuit had been filed against the University of Colorado; the Scheduling Order, which the professor had sought to seal, referred to allegations of improper conduct on the professor's part.
Legislators who approved a bunch of other gun control bills could not agree on what features make a firearm intolerable.
Critics say the long-running satiric cartoon has created "a generation of boys" who are smug and disengaged.
In Janus, the Court rejected requirements that government employees pay dues to unions; now the question before the Court is whether this applies to mandatory bar membership (and bar dues).
Government wants to force social media platforms to accept a “duty of care” to protect users from whatever they deem harmful.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
Somebody tell the FBI and Congress.
"The district court should not be a party to concealing this information from the public, especially as it concerns an arbitration organization that holds itself out to the public as impartial. These documents would be useful to the public in evaluating the true extent to which the organization is impartial."
In Broward County, judges almost never reject police petitions for gun confiscation orders.
An update on that Connecticut unsealing case.
The former New York mayor is being called a racist for his former support of searching young minorities without cause.
Despite concerns about efficacy and side effects, courts are slow to act on behalf of patients who don’t want the treatment.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced action against the department.
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Your cellphone is tracking your movements and, despite legal protections, federal, state, and local officials are finding new and disturbing ways to use that information.
Dwain Barton says Officer Dean Vann illegally entered his home and used excessive force while arresting him without probable cause.
(and perhaps to other government records).
Four Second Circuit judges gave fair use victories (separately) to rapper Drake and blogger Sargon of Akkad, concluding that defendants' uses of plaintiffs' work to comment on it and criticize it were fair use and thus not copyright infringement.
The Chinese Communist Party confiscated a sacred meteorite from Muslim herders. They're suing to get it back.
In several cases, victims received higher bonds than criminal defendants and were forced to serve jail time.
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Episode 10 of Free Speech Rules, a video series by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
The university disallowed the testimony of witnesses who would have undermined the accuser's credibility.
It’s all part of the international push by officials to monitor the public. You’re next.
The city's overzealous commission has ordered the company to stop selling dolls some said were racial caricatures.
"Say what you will about ISIS but at least they're not Islamophobic." Journalist Andrew Doyle has created the ultimate parody account.
If a motion to recuse argues that the judge has a conflict of interest because she owns particular property, can the judge order the redaction of all the details related to the location of the property?
Efforts to control the flow of information fail, but they muddle the quality of what people share in defiance of the censors.
"We need to stop this generation of big tech companies from profiting off of lies to the American people," the candidate told PEN America.
What’s at stake in Michigan v. Wood
A clear First Amendment violation, I think -- but it's the law in Tennessee.
Such inflammatory exaggeration seems designed to avoid a substantive discussion of the presidential candidate's gun control proposals.