The Second Amendment in Public Housing
The East St. Louis Housing Authority stipulates to allowing residents to possess guns.
The East St. Louis Housing Authority stipulates to allowing residents to possess guns.
The organization objects to gun restrictions only if they impinge on other constitutional provisions.
Plus: Christians and bureaucrats versus Tarot in Virginia, and Democratic candidates on restoring voting rights to prisoners
The Chattanooga Police Department is at the center of another excessive force lawsuit.
"Sharing our completely legal weekend activities on Snapchat should not result three days of in-school suspensions," Cody Conroy told Reason.
I'm continuing to serialize my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions.
They say the social media companies display a bias against conservatives.
Censorship continues to be about empowering those in charge.
Please share it widely!
I thought I'd serialize my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions; here is the section on criminal libel law -- the article argues that anti-libel injunctions are like mini-criminal-libel laws.
Episode 3 of Free Speech Rules, starring UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
The House version of the reauthorization bill includes new gun restrictions that sweep too broadly.
The online fashion magazine warns readers that Strange Planet's Nathan Pyle is maybe pro-life and "we should be more careful with what we're sharing."
My new article, forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review late this year -- I'd love to get feedback, while there's still plenty of time to edit it.
A Southern officeholder gains little from pushing for a right to post-delivery abortion.
The ACLU wants the Supreme Court to revisit the notorious qualified immunity doctrine.
Will a thirst to punish Silicon Valley destroy our liberty?
Maybe people are just playing to escape all the Brexit news?
In a now-deleted Facebook post, Loudoun County deputies brag about a drug bust, get dragged, and likely don't learn any lessons.
An allegedly bogus dossier on plaintiff was sent by defendant to a third party in 2003 -- and then hit the news in 2017. Can plaintiff sue for libel?
That's what Christiane Amanpour asked former FBI Director James Comey.
New York cops and the president arbitrarily turn legal products into contraband.
The court held that plaintiffs' sexual harassment claims (under Title IX) and religious objection claims (under the Illinois RFRA and under the Free Exercise Clause) could go forward, at least for now.
The Second Amendment covers magazines holding more than 10 rounds, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez says, because they are commonly used for lawful purposes.
This violates the First Amendment and common law rights of access to court records, I think; Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) has just filed a motion to intervene and unseal in the matter (Shelby Resorts Corp. v. Does, in New Jersey Superior Court).
The feds have allegedly abandoned the program. These four want to make sure it stays dead.
Under pressure, democracies have a nasty habit of acting like panicked crowds.
Plus: Senators move to end warrantless NSA spying and the "Paycheck Fairness Act" passes the House.
The ban, which took effect this week, usurps congressional authority by rewriting an inconvenient law.
Plus: a Robert Kraft/spa-sting update, Florida sex-buyer registry nixed, D.C. activist alleges entrapment, and more sex-work and sex-policy news.
The president of the American Enterprise Institute says we need to reboot politics and that libertarians may hold the key.
Plus: Parsing competing paid-leave proposals, wisdom from Justin Amash, and Pete Buttigieg on Chick-fil-A.
Do you have a license to link to that story? Will your sexy Tinder photo get confused with a celebrity's?
It's an order to create policies, not a policy -- so it's hard to tell what it will do until we see what policies various departments create.
Its exclusion of Chick-Fil-A from the airport appears to be based on the viewpoint expressed by Chick-Fil-A and various organizations to which it donates.
Two Second Amendment wins late last week.
The former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York unconvincingly channels Atticus Finch in his legal memoir.
Q&A with political strategist Liz Mair.
The privately maintained database has billions of records on drivers across the country.
The government is prohibiting "military-style semi-automatics" and redefining them to include most guns with detachable magazines.
How does shooting teachers with pellet guns make anyone safer?
A very interesting symposium, with (among many others) Floyd Abrams, Prof. Leslie Kendrick (Virginia), Nadine Strossen (former head of the ACLU), and more.
[UPDATE: Sorry, this was double-posted; please add any comments to the post above.]