Sleepwalking Into a Cashless Society
Central bank digital currencies would destroy any chance for financial privacy, but society is willingly moving in that direction.
Central bank digital currencies would destroy any chance for financial privacy, but society is willingly moving in that direction.
The move is an escalation of the White House's attempt to claim an unchallengeable and unreviewable amount of power.
Plus: the federal government tries to stiff landlords over eviction moratorium one last time, the Supreme Court declines to take up eminent domain case, and starter home bills advance in Arizona and Texas.
Plus: A listener asks why some American libertarians seem to unquestioningly accept everything Vladimir Putin says.
As a federal judge, Maryanne Trump Barry said the provision is unconstitutionally vague. That's especially problematic when it is used to punish speech.
We don't know why the justices chose not to take it.
The judge ruled that Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive orders targeting "gender ideology" can't change the fact that drag performance is expressive conduct under the First Amendment.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes has shut down Rumble in Brazil, using the same dubious legal arguments that led to the blocking of X and Telegram.
Plus: Sanders supports deportations, tariff tracker, Panama's Jewish enclave, and more...
"She 'does not want her experience with [a] poorly administered vaccine to become a story in itself that would interfere with her ability to advocate for vaccinations at large.'"
A Rhode Island town seeks to use eminent domain to block construction of a large-scale affordable housing project.
To justify the immediate deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, the president is invoking a rarely used statute that does not seem to apply in this context.
Already this year, the agency has allegedly conducted a warrantless raid in Newark and several warrantless arrests in the Midwest.
Office leadership allegedly "told Gassman's supervisors that the photo was 'comparable to a Nazi swastika.'"
The Trump administration keeps arresting legal immigrants with views they don't like.
The participants were Adam Cox (NYU) and myself.
Linda Martin's lawsuit alleges that the agency violated her right to due process when it took her $40,200 and sent her a notice failing to articulate the reason.
We can't be sure, and that's why due process matters.
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
by "Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole, and 15 other scholars."
Last month, the U.K. reportedly demanded access to any Apple user's data anywhere in the world. Paul wants to know if any other companies have received similar orders recently.
The Trump administration has started a pattern of trying to deport legal residents over allegations of pro-terrorist views.
The people deported are incarcerated in Salvadoran prisons without any due process whatsoever.
The attempt to retaliate against a cinema for screening a documentary on the Israel-Palestine conflict drew national condemnation from civil rights groups and filmmakers.
Journals allegedly written by the government's star witness in 2015 were not authentic, prosecutors now say.
The rationale for deporting Mahmoud Khalil is chillingly vague and broad.
A Trump administration official admits that there is little specific evidence tying some deportees to any crime—and argues that the lack of evidence should be taken as proof of criminality.
Plus: Texas midwife arrested for violating abortion ban, JFK files, Gaza bombings, astronauts finally rescued, and more...
Plus: A listener asks the editors whether a Kamala Harris presidency would have been preferable.
A recently filed amicus brief in Fuld v. PLO.
Good intentions, bad results.
Plus: Democrats' filibuster hypocrisy, Trump bombs Yemen, March Madness, and more...
A district judge had "found the provisions likely unconstitutional and issued a nationwide injunction" against them; the Fourth Circuit just stayed that injunction, pending full consideration of the issue on appeal.
Passengers suing the TSA for First Amendment violations have had a rough time in court.
No, not even if you do it in a county that borders Mexico.
but upholds limits on speech to plaintiff (or her visitors).
The bill is a "law against criticism of any kind," according to a lawyer who testified against it.
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