You generally can't claim self-defense if you're a robber "defending" yourself against your victim's own self-defense—but do you also lose your self-defense rights if your only crime is illegally carrying a handgun?
Rep. Devin Nunes can't hold Twitter liable for allegedly defamatory posts by Twitter user:
The Fox News host says reforming qualified immunity would "end law enforcement." That's not even close to being true.
State reform isn't a complete substitute for abolition of the federal judicial doctrine. But it can achieve a lot. A recent Colorado law provides a model other states would do well to imitate.
The plaintiffs argue that the city's tolerance of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest has resulted in lawlessness and lost business.
A Second Amendment hypocrite with a plan to undermine federalism
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged that the plaintiff's Eighth Amendment rights were violated.
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Judge Adelman's article sharply criticizing the Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit concluded, was largely permissible under the Canons of Judicial Conduct, except "the opening two sentences of the article and the criticisms of recent policy positions taken by one political party."
"Publicly expressing anger toward an elected official is not a basis for entry of an injunction. In public debate, elected officials must tolerate insulting remarks—even angry, outrageous speech—to provide breathing room for the First Amendment."
A new, terrible anti-encryption bill with a twist
"Defendant's Yelp post about plaintiff is reasonably and best understood to be, simply, name-calling."
"Be there by 10:30, lace your shoes, wear masks and gloves. Bring hammers bricks whatever you want."
The legal doctrine frequently allows police officers to violate your rights without fear of civil liability.
The problem isn’t just that cops look like occupying soldiers, it’s that too many think and act like them.
Today is the anniversary of one of the most controversial - and most unpopular - property rights decisions in the history of the Supreme Court.
A dispatch from the Black House Autonomous Zone
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Two years of rule-flouting by elites and ordinary citizens show the unsustainability of top-down prohibition.
From Forrest to Roosevelt, Confederates to Cervantes, Washington to Whittier, a discussion of iconography politics on The Reason Roundtable.
Former professor John Cochrane: "I spent much of my last few years of teaching afraid that I would say something that could be misunderstood and thus be offensive to someone."
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He remains a tenured faculty member.
The Department of Justice is finding creative ways to file federal charges against rioters and looters.
The interest in fighting age discrimination in employment doesn't trump free speech rights.
"By the looks of it, the horse is not just out of the barn—it is out of the country."
A Sixth Circuit panel rejects claims of qualified immunity for officers and Monell immunity for a Cleveland suburb.
These reforms would protect all Americans while reducing racial disparities in policing.
The legislation rolls back regulations that have been shielding bad police from accountability.
Police officers shouldn't be above the law.
Everybody is talking about changing law enforcement, but not all proposals are equally worthy—or serious.
Don't lock down expression along with so much else of American society.
Not a high-level official, not a spokesperson, not an endorser -- just an ordinary person.
The decision has been promptly appealed.
Protesters in many countries may find themselves facing down state forces with extralegal powers and a muzzled press.
While there are still numerous barriers to access in Louisiana's medical marijuana system, a specific list of "qualifying conditions" will no longer be one of them.
The heterodox hosts of the popular Blocked and Reported podcast talk about surviving internet outrage, the roots of speech repression, and the power of direct financial support from fans.
They’re not likely to succeed, but the real goal is to seize any money he makes.
It does not touch qualified immunity or police unions.
"USC stripped away my hopes and dreams of playing in the NFL, and this ‘win' does not erase that."
"Even if past [mentally distressing] speech that an offender made to a person ... could be considered ... integral to the criminal conduct of menacing by stalking [and thus unprotected], we do not believe that this principle may be applied categorically to future speech ... directed to others."
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