Guns, Germs, and Drugs Are Largely Responsible for the Decline in U.S. Life Expectancy
The Washington Post hectors Congress to make U.S. life expectancy a "political priority."
The Washington Post hectors Congress to make U.S. life expectancy a "political priority."
The state's law, which a federal judge enjoined last month, prohibits firearms in most public places.
A good illustration of the strong policy of openness in American court cases, even when defendants argue that unfounded allegations in court records are intruding on their privacy and damaging their reputations.
The father had an earlier history of sexually assaulting children.
The panel covered many cases and featured views many would not expect at a Fed Soc event.
The story shows what can happen when those accused of misconduct are subjected to opaque investigations with little due process.
Plus: State officials attempt to ban Donald Trump from 2024 election ballots.
A state judge ruled that a lawsuit seeking clarification on Idaho's vague abortion ban can move forward, despite dismissing some of the suit's claims.
The trial court found that "Decker continued contacting Siewert after she had asked him to stop five times" and "Decker's intent was to impose his will on Siewert to make her write about certain issues and to cover those issues in the way that he wanted them covered."
The Supreme Court judges Eighth Amendment cases with "evolving standards of decency." Some conservative jurists don't like it.
After a federal judge deemed the state's location-specific gun bans unconstitutional, the 9th Circuit stayed his injunction.
Restricting speech about the world's most pressing problems does not make them go away, nor does it settle any disputes.
Westbrook and the Jazz characterized the fan's insults to Westbrook as racist; in context, the court concluded, these were constitutionally protected statements of opinion.
Letting state officials determine whether a candidate has "engaged in insurrection" opens a huge can of worms.
Colorado, North Dakota, probably Montana, and maybe New York.
And some good news, after all.
Police have set bounties on 13 activists, some living in the U.S.
New anti-drag laws were deemed unconstitutional in every state where they were challenged this year.
William D. Eggers discusses what he's learned about making the government less intrusive.
The year's highlights in blame shifting.
A rare federal court decision denying Younger abstention.
(Note that the court dealt with a professional licensing board's threat of punishment for such engineers; it doesn't deal with the separate question whether a government body may refuse to accept testimony from an unlicensed expert.)
And there's still time left in 2023, the way things are going lately in New York.
The trial judge concluded the Tweet was “harassment by defamation.”
Police officers already are routinely indemnified, and suing them for abuse is much harder than Trump claims.
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
A reined-in TSA would be the sound of music to many Americans' ears.
“The victims may not have been persecuted or tortured due to the data breach yet, but the likelihood of those outcomes has increased due to ICE’s conduct.”
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