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Salvation Army Has First Amendment Right to Ban Methodone Use by People in Its Adult Rehabilitation Centers
From Tassinari v. Salvation Army, decided Monday by Judge Leo Sorokin (D. Mass.); I'd love to hear what list members think of it:
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How Do We Feel About Women's Work?
Stay-at-home moms: Reader, let me take your hand and guide you to a realm of the internet that I inhabit, which you probably don't even know exists. Welcome to Mom Twitter, where the discourse vacilla
Reason Magazine2h
What Happened to End Citizens United PAC v. FEC?
In January 2024, in End Citizens United PAC v. FEC, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit concluded that the Federal Election Campaign Act does not create a cause of action
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Brickbat: Hard Labor
In England, a major report found that more than 500 mothers and babies died or were seriously harmed at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust because of poor care over 13 years. The inquiry looked
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The Social Security Fix That Would Send Tax Rates Soaring
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R–Ohio) recently announced that he was working with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) to eliminate the cap on Social Security taxes. Moreno would be a very odd Republican if he think
Reason Magazine1d
Clarence Thomas Doubled Down on Presidential Power
What are the limits of executive power, and how should such limits be enforced by the courts?
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The Sindex: Gas Prices Rose 29% in 2 Months After Trump Went to War With Iran
In February, President Donald Trump might not have had red-hot economic numbers to point to, but at least he could say gas prices were down 7.3 percent since he took office and annual inflation was at
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Brickbat: Unfriendly Skies
In December, the Denver City Council voted against letting charter airline Key Lime Air lease space at the airport because it transports immigration detainees for the federal government. That decision
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OPINION: The days of ‘good guy’ capitalists are over. College students are right to turn against the tech elites
The students booing artificial intelligence at commencements across the country are not just worried about jobs. They have learned an urgent lesson from the not-so-distant past.
Global Voices1d
Statelessness in the region of former Yugoslavia: unfinished nationality rights, legal identity and Roma exclusion
Some issues are less visible but more persistent: lack of registration, administrative barriers, poverty and discrimination
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D.C. Circuit Denies Stay of Order Removing Trump's Name from Kennedy Center
From D.C. Circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins, and Gregory Katsas today in Beatty v. Trump:
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Video of National Constitution Center Conference on "2026 Supreme Court Review: Key Decisions, Executive Power, Civil Discourse"
Yesterday, the National Constitution Center held a conference on the 2025-26 Supreme Court term and the many important cases decided therein. The video of the event is now available and I embed it bel
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"AI Is the Democratic Party's Next Villain"
Another very interesting item from my Hoover colleague Andy Hall (Free Systems); a brief excerpt, though you should read the whole thing:
Reason Magazine2d
Can the Supreme Court Still Restrain Executive Power?
Today's guest is Clark Neily, a constitutional litigator, civil liberties advocate, and senior vice president for legal studies at the Cato Institute. He previously served as co-counsel in the landmar
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Warren's Plan To 'Fix' Social Security Would Be Largest Tax Increase in Over 40 Years
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) has a plan to "save" Social Security from upcoming benefit cuts—and all it will require is sacrificing a huge chunk of the economy via the biggest tax hike in over 40 y
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Cuckoo
Things heat back up with Iran: Earlier today, Iran attacked U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait. These attacks were in response to our own Tuesday attacks on multiple targets within Iran, as wel
Global Voices2d
The gap in the archives: Preserving the history of everyday objects
‘Where the museum sees a static ‘duck-shaped kohl container’ from an unknown 19th-century workshop, I see a lineage of working-class hands’
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Brickbat: Friends in High Places
A court sentenced former Singapore Traffic Police officer Shivasuria Maniam Kesaval to 16 months in jail after he unlawfully accessed police computer systems and shared a woman's personal information
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Supreme Court Begins Answering Lingering Questions About Constitutional Constraints on Gun Control
Over the course of 12 days last month, the Supreme Court upheld the gun rights of cannabis consumers, rejected Hawaii's default rule against firearms on private property open to the public, and agreed
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Eleventh Circuit Panel Strikes Down (by 2-1 Vote) Florida University Professor Speech Restrictions
Some excerpts from today's very long opinion in Pernell v. Fla. Bd. of Governors of State Univ. by Judge Britt Grant, joined by Judge Charles Wilson; note that the leading Eleventh Circuit precedent o
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Eleventh Circuit Panel Strikes Down (by 2-1 Vote) Stop Florida University Professor Speech Restrictions
Some excerpts from today's very long opinion in Pernell v. Fla. Bd. of Governors of State Univ. by Judge Britt Grant, joined by Judge Charles Wilson; note that the leading Eleventh Circuit precedent o