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Guns Jacob Sullum | From the August/September 2022 issue The horrifying May 24 massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19...
Politics Josh Blackman | 7.2.2022 7:00 AM 7/2/1908: Justice Thurgood Marshall's birthday. To get the Volokh Conspiracy Daily e-mail, please sign up...
Future Katherine Mangu-Ward | From the August/September 2022 issue I, Magazine, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe. I am...
Politics Josh Blackman | 7.1.2022 7:00 AM 7/1/1985: Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. is decided. To get the Volokh Conspiracy Daily...
Slippery Slope Arguments Eugene Volokh | 7.1.2022 8:01 AM [Last month, I've been serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms...
Abortion Peter Suderman | 7.1.2022 1:56 PM Last week, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and with it the nationwide guarantee of a...
Food Eric Boehm | From the August/September 2022 issue Lazy Cakes brownies promised "baked in" relaxation, thanks to a dose of melatonin. But...
Vaccines Ronald Bailey | 7.1.2022 1:36 PM Coronavirus vaccines should be updated to address omicron BA.4/5 coronavirus variants that are rapidly...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 7.1.2022 3:05 PM From Perlot v. Green , decided yesterday by Chief Judge David Nye (D. Idaho), the facts: On April 1,...
Eugene Volokh | 7.1.2022 3:32 PM A funny line I just saw; don't know who first came up with it. To get the Volokh Conspiracy Daily e-mail, please...
Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2022 4:40 PM The Supreme Court yesterday vacated four appeals court decisions upholding gun control laws,...
Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 7.1.2022 3:40 PM Yesterday, in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court concluded...
Administrative Law Jonathan H. Adler | 7.1.2022 4:18 PM Federal courts are generally quite deferential to administrative agency conclusions about...
Prisons C.J. Ciaramella | 7.1.2022 2:21 PM Arizona prison officials were deliberately indifferent to "grossly inadequate" medical and mental health...
Politics John Ross | 7.1.2022 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Do you...
Ukraine Fiona Harrigan | 7.1.2022 3:33 PM President Joe Biden announced yesterday that the United States would send another $800 million in weapons...
Brickbats Charles Oliver | 7.1.2022 4:00 AM Hundreds of people in China's Henan province had planned to protest their banks, which have been...
Politics Charles Oliver and Peter Bagge | From the July 2022 issue Craig A. Schmeckpeper, a former physical education teacher in Nebraska's North...
Josh Blackman | 7.1.2022 9:28 PM Shortly after Bruen was decided, I wrote a post about the limits imposed by the decision. Even sooner, New York...
Josh Blackman | 7.1.2022 6:11 PM My general policy is to read each Supreme Court decision the day it comes out. Alas, publication deadlines have...
Josh Blackman | 7.1.2022 11:35 PM Earlier this evening, I shared a guest post from Professor Rob Leider, who explained that New Yorkers in rural...
Josh Blackman | 7.2.2022 12:12 AM On its face, Carson v. Maikin seems to be a resounding victory for religious liberty and school choice in Maine....
Reason Roundup Christian Britschgi | 7.1.2022 9:32 AM A Supreme Court decision not going your way isn't the end of the world. Or is it? On...
Supreme Court Eugene Volokh | 7.1.2022 7:18 PM Each of the 13 federal circuit courts of appeals gets a Justice assigned to it, mainly to handle...
Politics Christian Britschgi | 7.1.2022 4:55 PM Even in these polarized times, Americans from both parties can agree on one thing: The other side...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.30.2022 10:18 PM The South Carolina state Senate is considering a bill that would basically ban abortions, with no...
War on Drugs Veronique de Rugy | 6.30.2022 2:35 PM There's something terrifying about a government so powerful that it can shut down your business...
Supreme Court Ronald Bailey | 6.30.2022 2:00 PM The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in the West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency that it...
Abortion Ilya Somin | 6.30.2022 2:15 PM The Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade has re-focused attention on the moral principle of "My Body, My...
Cancel Culture Liz Wolfe | 6.30.2022 3:40 PM "I've literally been to like five of those now, and I don't know what the fuck I'm about to do for...
Reproductive Freedom Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.30.2022 2:10 PM Model legislation from the anti-abortion group National Right to Life provides a...
Abortion Eric Bazail-Eimil | 6.30.2022 3:00 PM With the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , the United...
David Bernstein | 6.30.2022 12:51 PM As discussed in my forthcoming book Classified (out in less than 3 weeks!), contrary to popular belief,...
Abortion Eric Boehm | 6.30.2022 4:30 PM Last week's overturning of Roe v. Wade (1973) by the U.S. Supreme Court was made possible, at least in...
FBI C.J. Ciaramella | 6.30.2022 4:16 PM Government records show that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover thought standup comedian Mort Sahl was a "very...
Alcohol Meredith Bragg | 6.30.2022 1:25 PM "We've been looking at alcohol consumption through this very distorted lens," says Edward Slingerland,...
Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 6.30.2022 10:05 AM [Note: This post is still being updated] Today the Supreme Court decided West Virginia v....
Politics Eugene Volokh | 6.30.2022 3:01 AM To get the Volokh Conspiracy Daily e-mail, please sign up here. NEXT: Justice Breyer's Final(?) Majority...
Slippery Slope Arguments Eugene Volokh | 6.30.2022 8:01 AM [This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of...
Politics Eugene Volokh | 6.30.2022 8:38 AM From State v. Doll , decided Tuesday by the Washington Court of Appeals (Chief Judge Rebecca Glasgow,...
Crime Josh Blackman | 6.30.2022 7:00 AM 6/30/2014: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores is decided. To get the Volokh Conspiracy Daily e-mail, please sign...
Brickbats Charles Oliver | 6.30.2022 4:00 AM Yeshiva University, in New York City, has its roots in a school teaching Jewish immigrants and their...
Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 6.30.2022 12:25 PM This morning Chief Justice Roberts delivered a gift to the BIden Administration with the final...
Politics Fiona Harrigan | 6.30.2022 11:21 AM The Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration may end a Trump-era border policy known as...
Student Loans Emma Camp | 6.30.2022 10:51 AM The Department of Education last week announced it was canceling $6 billion in student loan debt and...
Architecture Jesse Walker | From the July 2022 issue Imagine a federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive,...
Abortion Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2022 6:30 PM The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that the U.S....
Politics Josh Blackman | 6.30.2022 7:30 AM Recently, the Jackson, Mississippi Federalist Society Chapter invited me to deliver an address on the...
Reason Roundup Robby Soave | 6.30.2022 9:30 AM The government of California inadvertently made public the names, birthdates, and addresses of...
Immigration Fiona Harrigan | 6.30.2022 5:03 PM On Monday, dozens of bodies were found in a tractor-trailer outside San Antonio, Texas, in an...
Slippery Slope Arguments Eugene Volokh | 6.29.2022 8:01 AM [This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of...
Criminal Law Eugene Volokh | 6.29.2022 12:36 PM In People v. Johnson , decided by the California Court of Appeal two weeks ago, in an opinion by...
Capitol Riot Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2022 3:05 PM There is no question that Donald Trump's rhetoric and inaction before and during the 2021 Capitol...
Trans Scott Shackford | 6.29.2022 2:35 PM Parents do not have the power to seek certain medical treatments to assist their trans children in...
Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 6.29.2022 12:25 PM Tomorrow is the last day of this momentous Supreme Court term. The Court has issued its...
Supreme Court Damon Root | 6.29.2022 1:33 PM Stephen Breyer wrote a letter today to President Joe Biden stating that he will officially retire...
Supreme Court Damon Root | 6.29.2022 2:50 PM Justice Samuel Alito's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization argued that the...
Orin S. Kerr | 6.29.2022 2:22 PM I have written before about the Ninth Circuit's troubling April ruling in United States v. Rosenow , which held (...
Guns Eugene Volokh | 6.29.2022 3:35 PM Today's decision of the Montana Supreme Court in Bd. of Regents v. State , written by Justice Laurie...
Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 6.29.2022 3:46 PM Tomorrow is not only the last day of the Supreme Court term and Justice Breyer's final day on...
Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 6.29.2022 4:13 PM Today the Supreme Court decided Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety , in which a 5-4...
Comics Nick Gillespie and Brian Doherty | 6.29.2022 3:29 PM Starting in the 1960s, a maverick band of young cartoonists like Robert Crumb, Art...
Guns Nick Gillespie | 6.29.2022 4:18 PM As the most momentous Supreme Court term in recent memory comes to a close, are things better or worse for...
Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 6.29.2022 4:05 PM There's a clear lesson emerging from the first cities that have legalized "missing middle"...
Law & Government Will Baude | 6.29.2022 3:52 PM Divided Argument, my podcast about the Supreme Court with Dan Epps, has been in high season this...
Automobiles Joe Lancaster | 6.29.2022 4:45 PM As part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, over 190 nations pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050. To...
Crime Josh Blackman | 6.29.2022 7:00 AM 6/29/1992: Planned Parenthood v. Casey is decided. To get the Volokh Conspiracy Daily e-mail, please sign...
Brickbats Charles Oliver | 6.29.2022 4:00 AM The Iowa City, Iowa, school district plans to spend $350,000 to put sensors in high school restrooms...
Police Abuse Emma Camp | 6.29.2022 5:15 PM On the evening of June 19th, New Haven police arrested Randy Cox, 36, on a handgun possession charge....
School Choice J.D. Tuccille | 6.29.2022 7:00 AM It's good to watch your state lose its lead as a school choice innovator not because it's...
Abortion Liz Wolfe | 6.29.2022 9:45 AM In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling handed down by the Supreme Court on...
Criminal Justice Billy Binion | 6.29.2022 5:00 PM When Vicki Baker cleared out her home in McKinney, Texas, in 2020, she filled two 40-foot...
Abortion Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.29.2022 10:01 AM If you need any more evidence that the abortion law landscape will get even more murky than we...
Reason Roundup Robby Soave | 6.29.2022 9:30 AM As a mob of angry supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, former President Donald Trump...
Abortion Billy Binion | 6.29.2022 12:30 AM Now abortion law is up to states. Some will ban it, while most blue states will allow it in some form....
Campus Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 9:21 PM Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) passes along this e-mail from the GWU Provost and Law...
Immigration Ilya Somin | 6.28.2022 4:44 PM The recent tragic deaths of some 50 undocumented migrants in a truck in Texas highlight the perils of...
Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 11:27 AM I've been seeing some headlines referring to decisions of the New York Supreme Court (see, e.g., Fox and CNN),...
Slippery Slope Arguments Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 8:01 AM [This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of...
Guns Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 12:08 PM These were the "may-issue" jurisdictions in which such licenses were generally unavailable; if you're...
Brickbats Charles Oliver | 6.28.2022 4:00 AM Georgia Gwinnett College has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by two students who...
CDC Justin Monticello | 6.28.2022 11:55 AM The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was once widely viewed as the gold standard in...
Abortion Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2022 12:01 AM When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, it ostensibly freed states to regulate abortion...
Politics Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 8:53 AM Here's an unusual Michigan statute that applies to employees as well as employers, and that I just...
Harassment Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 1:11 PM So reports NJ.com (Chris Sheldon), quoting this Facebook post from the West Caldwell Police...
Privacy Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 12:34 PM The Supreme Court hasn't made clear whether such a constitutional right to be free from government...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 8:32 AM From Doe v. Town of Lisbon , decided Thursday by Judge Joseph Laplante (D.N.H.): Through this...
Criminal Law Eugene Volokh | 6.28.2022 12:10 PM From T. Markus Funk (a legal scholar, former prosecutor, and my erstwhile coauthor) at Sean Solis,...
Josh Blackman | 6.28.2022 1:04 PM For a generation, Justice Kennedy was the swing vote on the Supreme Court. In almost every major case, you could...
Josh Blackman | 6.28.2022 2:34 PM Justice Kavanaugh joined, in full, the two most significant cases of the term. In Dobbs, Kavanaugh did not join...
Crime Josh Blackman | 6.28.2022 7:00 AM 6/28/2010: McDonald v. City of Chicago is decided. To get the Volokh Conspiracy Daily e-mail, please sign...
Politics Josh Blackman | 6.28.2022 8:30 AM On April 27, 2022, the Wall Street Journal editorial page worried that Chief Justice Roberts was "trying...
Josh Blackman | 6.28.2022 11:14 AM At some point Chief Justice Roberts may have had a "long game." But along the way, he he lost that game. In ...
Politics Eric Boehm | 6.28.2022 2:30 PM "I'm at city hall," Angela Pence says via text message. "By a guy with a 'Don't Tread on Me' flag." Even...
Discrimination Ilya Somin | 6.28.2022 1:46 PM In the twentieth century, anti-discrimination law was largely pioneered by the political left. What...
Supreme Court Damon Root | 6.28.2022 3:09 PM Littered throughout Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health...
Health Care Emma Camp | 6.28.2022 1:57 PM Mark Cuban's online pharmacy was founded to sell prescription drugs at the lowest and most transparent...
Randy E. Barnett | 6.28.2022 2:46 PM My contribution to a symposium on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen is now up on SCOTUSBlog....