Do Anti-BDS Laws Restrict Speech?
The line between commercial decisions and advocacy is not as clear as opponents of anti-Israel boycotts suggest.
The line between commercial decisions and advocacy is not as clear as opponents of anti-Israel boycotts suggest.
The Supreme Court declines to hear arguments in Oliva v. Nivar.
The decision will make it even more difficult for victims to hold the government accountable when their rights are violated.
The Supreme Court has a chance to fix this. The stakes are high.
National surveys obscure large regional variations in public opinion about abortion limits.
An unscheduled, unpredictable Supreme Court podcast with Dan Epps
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Bad news for hundreds of imprisoned defendants in Louisiana and Oregon
Only students support extending the power to penalize speech, raising concerns about what they’re learning in school.
some heterodox views about Supreme Court opinions, and more
How pretextual traffic stops got the judicial stamp of approval.
Focusing on time and the "nondelegation baseline" would be one way to constrain excessive delegation.
SCOTUS will soon decide whether to hear José Oliva’s argument that he should be allowed to sue V.A. officers for violating his Fourth Amendment rights.
More and more progressive commentators want to see a Supreme Court vacancy this year.
Tarahrick Terry was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after he was caught with less than four grams.
Up for debate was whether or not it was "clearly established" that officers cannot apply injurious force to a subject who isn't resisting.
“Our only job today, is to give the law’s terms their ordinary meanings and, in that small way, ensure that the federal government does not exceed its statutory license.”
A book that may may help decide the Supreme Court's upcoming right to carry case.
The Supreme Court weighs the power of school officials to punish students for off-campus speech.
The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Niz-Chavez v. Garland is not what you might have expected, but it may be a sign of things to come.
New York, like several other states, limits public carrying of handguns to the favored few.
The Biden Administration's effort to moot challenges to the Trump Administration's "public charge" rule scores an initial (yet potentially temporary) victory.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments next term in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett.
The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.
SCOTUS released three decisions this morning, as we await big decisions concerning religious liberty, the Affordable Care Act, and some meaty administrative law questions.
Bans on dangling objects are just one example of the myriad petty rules that give police the power to stop nearly any driver at will.
"How can an ordinary person afford to wait years after the government takes their car?"
Progressive activists are pushing the 82-year-old justice to step down.
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The Supreme Court reaffirms that COVID-19 regulations must comply with the First Amendment.
The majority reminds the 9th Circuit that the First Amendment puts limits on COVID-19 policies.
Drawn from William Eskridge and Christopher Riano's comprehensive new book on the subject.
The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States will examine “the membership and size of the Court.”
It's a genuinely bipartisan and cross-ideological group. And one that isn't good news for advocates of court-packing.
In this he echoes a number of other liberals, including the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A liberal justice throws cold water on a pet progressive cause
A moot case about Trump blocking tweets leads to concerns that tech companies have too much control over speech.
Today's grant of certiorari in Brown v. Davenport suggests we will see yet another Supreme Court reversal of a Sixth Circuit grant of a habeas petition.
While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.
This morning's summary reversal of a habeas petition grant in Mays v. Hines.
"The application of physical force to the body with the intent to restrain is a seizure, even if the person does not submit and is not subdued."
In two decisions today, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh aligned with the Court's liberals.
“There was no immediate danger,” Sotomayor said, yet the police “decided on their own to go in and seize the gun.”
According to the dissent, the appeals court "has decided that the Second Amendment does not mean what it says."
My article considers the implications of a major takings case currently before the Supreme Court.
In this post, I consider some additional issues that came up in the recent Supreme Court oral argument in an important takings case.
The Court seems likely to rule in favor of property rights in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.
President Joe Biden campaigned on ending the federal death penalty, but he’s been quiet about it since taking office.