Fetuses in HOV Lanes, Abortions at Sea, and More Post-Dobbs Weirdness
Plus: Banned books, a bookstore revival, and more...
Plus: Banned books, a bookstore revival, and more...
Is negligently providing information to a dangerous person comparable to negligently entrusting a gun to a dangerous person (assuming a reasonable person would have realized the person was dangerous)?
The surveillance state’s appetite for sensitive information is dangerous under any flag.
The book may never achieve the cultural recognition of some other top censorship targets, but the fight over I Am Jazz symbolizes America's trans moral panic.
Dedication to free speech is in short supply around the world, with Britain and Canada previously considering similar bills.
An obscure Supreme Court case provides a roadmap through the curricular culture war.
Defendants include a DHS employee and a retired DHS law enforcement agent.
Residents of Nogales are now under the gaze of a round-the-clock surveillance craft.
The abortion wars have entered a new phase.
Some states promptly eliminated subjective standards, while others refused to recognize the decision's implications.
Like it or not, the Thomas Court is here.
After community outrage and the mayor saying he wasn't told about Timothy Loehmann's policing background, the officer withdrew his application.
“Defendants cannot claim a reasonable forecast of substantial disruption to regulate C.G.’s off-campus speech by simply invoking the words ‘harass’ and ‘hate’ when C.G.’s speech does not constitute harassment and its hateful nature is not regulable in this context.”
The debate isn’t a panorama of the whole American abortion war, but it is a snapshot of a key battle after a surprise victory, and it shows no path to peace.
The split in the cases grows.
Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks sues a company that's in the business of delivering "chocolate Dick[s]," "offensive 5 inch chocolate phallus[es] with no redeeming social qualities, whatsoever."
How school board members lashed out against dirty words
Plus a nice catalog of how high the bar can be for punishable threats under New York law.
Social media platforms may marginally support free speech. Government censors are trying to stop that.
An interesting threats case, from the Louisiana Court of Appeal
I asked scholars, podcasters, and passersby how they'd change the nation's founding charter. Here's what they told me.
Climate protesters who blocked an interstate outside D.C. likely cost a man his parole.
A new history, Dirty Pictures, explores how underground comix revolutionized art and exploded censorship once and for all.
The project includes reports by conservative, libertarian, and progressive teams. I am coauthor of the Team Libertarian report.
The answers underline the limitations of laws that aim to prevent this sort of crime by restricting access to firearms.
Over 150 new edited documents in the 2022 update to Gillman, Graber, and Whittington's American Constitutionalism
"You have to ensure the citizens are protected against the power of the state. This is what we call liberal democracies."
"I don't need to have numbers," Gov. Kathy Hochul said when asked about the evidence supporting the law.
Reforms promised after Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 are not being followed by Los Angeles police.
But it does so on the ground that the moratorium was never properly "authorized," not because a moratorium could never be a taking.
The WNBA player has been detained in Russia on drug possession charges since February.
Reade sued over the Times' including a portion of her social security number in a photo of her federal identification card accompanying a story. A federal court has rejected her claim, and she may also be required to pay the Times' legal fees.
Are “extremely over-sensitive, Twitter activist people" ruining literature?
"Nevertheless, this Court still sits!"