"Defendants accused of creating fake social media accounts to harass PRC dissidents, and working with employees of a U.S. telecommunications company to remove dissidents from company's platform."
Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia last month on espionage charges. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in a penal colony.
Recent efforts from the governor, the attorney general, and state legislators suggest the state is moving away from capital punishment.
One of America's richest art forms suffers for seeming realer than other literature. But the war against "graphic imagery" is really a war against certain truths.
Plus: Dominion defamation suit against Fox News starts today, Republicans' debt plan, and more...
[UPDATE: It turns out that the Maryland intermediate appellate court reached the opposite result for the same plaintiff; post bumped up so readers can see the update, which is available in the second half of this post.].]
"By maintaining access to these records, the Court promotes the public's interest 'in ascertaining what evidence and records the District Court ... relied upon in reaching [its] decision,' and the Court provides 'the public with a more complete understanding of the judicial system, including a better perception of its fairness.'"
Plus: DeSantis does better than Trump in swing-state poll, majority say abortion pill should remain available, and more...
Never underestimate officials’ ability to turn embarrassing moments into awful opportunities.
"It is critical to our mission as a university to think deeply about freedom of expression and the challenges that result from assaults on it," said Cornell President Martha E. Pollack.
Pretrial rulings recognized the falsity of the election-fraud claims that the outlet aired and rejected three of its defenses.
"These things are just so inexcusable," a judge said. "It's hard to understand."
Overall human freedom peaked in 2007, according to the Cato Institute, and governments' COVID response merely exacerbated the trend toward a radically less-free planet.
Plus: More secrecy from the Global Disinformation Index, the public awaits another big Supreme Court abortion decision, and more...
The Mississippi Court of Appeals splits 5-4 on the subject.
My presentation covers an important takings case currently before the Supreme Court.
The appeals court's unpublished order avoids some of the district court's errors, but still has some significant problems, especially with regard to standing.
It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.
Prosecutors could end up with a trove of patient-level data regarding highly personal drugs like Viagra, abortion pills, and more.
Plus: New developments in the Texas abortion drug ruling, fallout from the Riley Gaines event at SFSU, and more...
The authors of The Individualists talk Rand, Friedman, Hayek, Rothbard, and the "struggle for the soul" of the libertarian movement.
'Digidog is out of the pound," New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared, not ominously.
Robert Delgado's family is now seeking damages.
Decentralizing power is better than trying to jam one vision down the throats of the unwilling.
The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.
Bullet speed matters, but so does bullet weight
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone was unimpressed by the Biden administration's argument that marijuana users are too "dangerous" to own guns.
“After School Satan Clubs” cause no direct harm—they merely challenge the relationship between religious institutions and public schools.
Intelligence Squared U.S. has a new name and ambitions to host presidential debates.
Plus: The editors respond to a listener question concerning corporate personhood.
The divergent orders from judges in Washington state and Texas may bring the battle over mifepristone to the Supreme Court.
Plus: Dueling court decisions on an abortion drug, an update from Riley Gaines, and more...
On Good Friday, two district courts issued decisions on the FDA's approval of the abortion drug mifepristone.
The bipartisan RESTRICT Act is an infringement on a host of civil and economic rights that will strangle free speech and cryptocurrencies.
The college swimmer was reportedly forced to barricade herself in a room for three hours.
The call was for trigger warnings for "any traumatic content that may be discussed, including but not limited to: sexual assault, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, child abuse, racial hate crimes, transphobic violence, homophobic harassment, xenophobia."
As former Backpage execs await their August trial, the shutdown is still worsening the lives it was supposed to improve.
Litigation over abortion drugs turns disagreements about individual rights into a bureaucratic tussle.
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