Flashy Storefront Gun Ads Are Protected by the First Amendment, Says California Judge
Sen. Kamala Harris tried to limit the storefront speech of firearms sellers as California attorney general.
Sen. Kamala Harris tried to limit the storefront speech of firearms sellers as California attorney general.
The Supreme Court nominee talks warrantless government surveillance with Sen. Patrick Leahy.
End of a Jim Crow-era law a potential win for jury nullification.
Clinton runs with a Kamala Harris whopper that's already been debunked.
Bill also calls for holding forum moderators legally liable for extreme speech.
This time the Libertarian Party seems to be hurting the Democrat, who's trying to run out the clock on confirming Brett Kavanaugh.
The case against Krissy Noble shows how drug and gun laws conspire to deprive people of a fundamental right.
So a federal judge just held.
"Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week." Except he didn't.
Harris and other Democrats distorted Kavanaugh's comments on birth control to portray him as a religious extremist.
So a Sixth Circuit panel just held, and it also concluded that the statements weren't actionable under Kentucky law.
The next Reason/Soho Forum Debate pits criminologist Gary Kleck against former Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence President Paul Helmke.
The defendant, Imani Pennant, reportedly said that there's a web site that helps people create such orders.
Demands for government oversight hide opportunism amid rhetoric about safety.
Critiquing an ex-president's warnings about anti-media rhetoric, non-voting, and unelected bureaucrats
An aide for the jailed dissident calls Google's actions "political censorship."
The Sixth Circuit reaffirms this, including for sexual assault accusations, in a case against the University of Michigan; and the court also allows plaintiff to proceed with his claim that the process was biased against him because of his sex.
If credibility is at stake, "the university must give the accused student or his agent an opportunity to cross-examine the accuser."
An interesting new Younger abstention case from the Ninth Circuit, arising in our challenge to Washington's very broad criminal harassment statute.
There are many reasons to be excited about the NFL's return. The national anthem controversy isn't one of them.
Fun fact: All laws give government control of the decisions that everybody of any gender can do with their bodies.
Rand Paul betrays his civil libertarian principles when he calls for using junk science to ferret out disloyalty.
The state pays (and generously) to avoid the pending cert. petition in Allah v. Milling
Conspiracy theorist banned for "abusive behavior."
The senator is miffed that the SCOTUS nominee thinks people have a right to own the guns she wants to ban.
The Department of Justice plans to look into whether social media platforms are "hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas."
Kamala Harris wants Brett Kavanaugh to give gun violence victims "a fair shake," by which she means adopting her view of the Second Amendment.
The girl was in tears as firefighters removed taser barbs from her body.
Tom Cotton to Jack Dorsey: "Do you prefer to see America remain the world's dominant global superpower?"
Draft legislation would force tech companies to compromise encryption at the government's demand.
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how "good intentions and bad ideas" have made young people super-fragile-and how to make things better.
My Spanish blasphemy post reminded that I've been meaning to blog about the Indonesian decision, handed down last month.
"The Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers has announced that it is also planning to ask the judge to consider investigating Toledo for hate crimes after he said during a television interview that if people were shot for their religious beliefs and Catholic churches burned during the Spanish Civil War, it was because they 'must have done something."'
Before demanding censure or intervention, take a step back from the Twitter machine and ask yourself whether anyone really cares about this stuff.
Criminologist Gary Kleck revises his paper on the incidence of the use of firearms for self-protection.
Thanks to a design bug in a government transparency website, dozens of social security numbers were mistakenly made public.
The urge to suppress runs up against targets which have no form, shape, or fixed location, and can be infinitely reproduced.
A good example of a court properly protecting the public right of access to court records.
In a concurring opinion, Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett expresses concern about the " kudzu-like creep of the modern immunity regime."
Oregon is one of a handful states that bans age discrimination against 18-to-20-year-olds by places of public accommodation.
Authorities say Krissy Noble was justified in shooting and killing a home intruder while she was pregnant.
"While not a criminal matter, an order of protection exposes a respondent to an array of restrictions, including severe limitations on his or her Second Amendment rights. A respondent deserves a meaningful due process opportunity to present his or her case."
The rule would have banned, among other things, "harmful verbal ... conduct that manifests bias or prejudice towards others" "on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law," including "in bar association, business or social activities in connection with the practice of law."
Why should an athlete be subjected to a nonsensical controversy ginned up by reporters?