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No Shirt, No Shrewd, No Parking

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Eugene Volokh

Open Thread

yesterday 6

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Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: Foraging Foul Play

yesterday 10

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Charles Oliver

Today in Supreme Court History: January 13, 2014

yesterday 8

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Josh Blackman

Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing: Be Aware of the Audience

yesterday 20

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Judge David Weinzweig

The Company Behind the 'Steroid Olympics' Wants To Make Enhanced Pro Athletes Mainstream—and Amateurs, Too

yesterday 7

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Jason Russell

No, ICE Agents Do Not Have 'Absolute Immunity' From State Prosecution

yesterday 4

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Damon Root

Will Iran Fall?

yesterday 2

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Liz Wolfe

The Year of the Starter Home

yesterday 2

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Christian Britschgi

The 6 Ways Trump Tried To Control the Economy Last Week

yesterday 2

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Jared Dillian

The L.A. Sheriff's Office Is Mad at Starbucks—Over a Pig Doodle

yesterday 1

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Joe Lancaster

Court "Order for Lunch"

yesterday 1

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Eugene Volokh

"We Must Not Sport With Things of So Solemn a Nature"

yesterday 1

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Eugene Volokh

Video Shows Border Patrol Threaten Legal Observer in Key Largo for Following Him

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C.j. Ciaramella

Are Historians Really Apolitical?

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Josh Blackman

Hans von Spakovsky, Formerly of the Heritage Foundation, Joins Advancing American Freedom

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Josh Blackman

Trump's War on Interest Rates

previous day 6

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Eric Boehm

Brickbat: Run From the Border

Immigration Charles Oliver | 1.12.2026 4:00 AM U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe has been indicted on 10 counts of deprivation...

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Charles Oliver

The ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good Disregarded Traffic Stop Guidelines

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Jacob Sullum

Free Speech Unmuted: 2025: The Year in Free Speech

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Eugene Volokh

Bill Gates Isn't the Only One Shifting From Climate Doomerism to Energy Abundance

Climate Change Jeff Luse | From the February/March 2026 issue In October 2025, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates made headlines...

previous day 10

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Jeff Luse

Iran's Inflation Protests Turned Into an Uprising. Will Trump Get Involved?

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Matthew Petti

Google Missed Key Deadline in Suit Alleging Google's AI Libeled Business, Court Holds

Free Speech A federal district court rules that the case should go back to Minnesota state court, rather than being in federal court. Eugene Volokh...

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Eugene Volokh

Students for a Democratic Society Chapter Expelled from Univ. of South Florida for Rule Violations Loses First Amendment Challenge to USF Policies

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.12.2026 8:33 AM In Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society v. Univ. of South Florida , decided Friday by Judge...

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Eugene Volokh

Wife's Right to Carry a Gun Improperly Denied Because of Her Husband's Behavior, Massachusetts Appeals Court Rules

Guns Eugene Volokh | 1.12.2026 8:01 AM From Guinane v. Chief of Police of Manchester-by-the-Sea , decided Friday by Justice Peter Sacks, joined by...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: January 12, 1932

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Josh Blackman

End the Fed? Or Turn It Over to Trump?

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Peter Suderman

The Trump Administration Owns Responsibility for Whatever Comes Next in Venezuela

Venezuela J.D. Tuccille | 1.12.2026 7:00 AM Regarding the 2002 invasion and occupation of Iraq, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell warned...

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J.d. Tuccille

'Pregnant? Don't Want To Be?' Ads at South Dakota Gas Stations Spark First Amendment Battle

Abortion Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.12.2026 11:46 AM In the pre-Roe days, nearly 20 states had some sort of law against abortion advertising or...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

A Breakable Regime

Iran Liz Wolfe | 1.12.2026 9:30 AM Iran's death toll: Hundreds of protesters have been killed in Iran, as the government tries to crack down on...

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Liz Wolfe

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Electricity Joe Lancaster | 1.12.2026 11:20 AM Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are...

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Joe Lancaster

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1989 to 2009

Executive Power Presidential non-acquiescence in Humphrey's Executor from 1989 to 2009. Steven Calabresi | 1.12.2026 12:14 PM This is my seventh...

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Steven Calabresi

Remember Noriega?

Why Maduro's Prosecution Can Continue Even if the US Violated International Law Mark Movsesian | 1.12.2026 10:45 AM For those old enough to...

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Mark Movsesian

Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing, Introduction

Politics Nine mantras to persuasion. Judge David Weinzweig | 1.12.2026 11:15 AM We have an epidemic. The virus is known to travel on paper and...

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Judge David Weinzweig

Trump 2.0, Year 1: A Libertarian Nightmare

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Brian Doherty

Judge David Weinzweig (Ariz. Ct. App.) Guest-Blogging About "Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing "

Eugene Volokh | 1.11.2026 7:22 PM I'm delighted to report that Judge David Weinzweig will be guest-blogging this coming week about his new book....

sunday 10

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Eugene Volokh

The Trump Administration's Deportation Reels Keep Getting Copyright Strikes for Using Music Without Permission

Immigration Autumn Billings | From the February/March 2026 issue As masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deploy to U.S. cities,...

sunday 10

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Autumn Billings

Today in Supreme Court History: January 11, 1830

sunday 10

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Josh Blackman

The New York Times's Latest Analysis of Trump Judges

The truth may be that the judges actually believe what they are writing. For the left, that truth is too hard to process, so they rely on the "...

sunday 10

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Josh Blackman

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1969 to 1989

Executive Power Humphrey's Executor from 1969 to 1989. Steven Calabresi | 1.11.2026 11:06 AM At oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter much discussion...

sunday 1

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Steven Calabresi

Comic: It's Mercy Otis Warren vs. The Blockheads

10.01.2026 20

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Peter Bagge

Professor's Lawsuit, "Focused on Discrimination Related to Positionality Across Multiple Marginalized and Vulnerable Communities," Fizzles

Eugene Volokh | 1.10.2026 3:40 PM I wrote about the case in July (the quote in the title of this post, as of the previous one, is from one of...

10.01.2026 8

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Eugene Volokh

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1945 to 1969

Executive Power Almost every president since 1945 has refused to accept Humphrey's Executor as having been correctly decided. Steven Calabresi |...

10.01.2026 1

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Steven Calabresi

Video of the Minneapolis ICE Shooting Does Not Resolve the Issue of Whether It Was Legally Justified

ICE Jacob Sullum | 1.9.2026 4:00 PM After an immigration agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, Secretary of Homeland...

09.01.2026 50

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Jacob Sullum

Constitutional to Expel Law Student for Writing "[W]hatever Harvard Professor Noel Ignatiev Meant by … '[A]bolish the White Race by Any Means Necessary' … Must Be Done with Jews"

Free Speech An Eleventh Circuit panel concludes (by a 2-1 vote) that this is likely the right result. Eugene Volokh | 1.9.2026 3:05 PM From...

09.01.2026 8

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Eugene Volokh

First Amendment Protects Islam Expert's Post-Sept. 11 Speech Urging People to Join Taliban

Free Speech So a Fourth Circuit panel held today, vacating the defendant's convictions from 2005. Eugene Volokh | 1.9.2026 5:01 PM An excerpt from...

09.01.2026 10

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Eugene Volokh

Court Refuses to Seal Case Involving Government's Motion to Authorize Disclosure of Tax Returns

Free Speech "The substantial public interests implicated by questions of the proper scope of Executive power and the statutory limits on access to...

09.01.2026 3

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Eugene Volokh

DHS Says Venezuela Is Safe for Migrants To 'Go Home' to After Maduro's Capture. These Venezuelans Disagree.

Venezuela Autumn Billings | 1.9.2026 5:53 PM In the day following the capture of Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro, Department of Homeland Security...

09.01.2026 2

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Autumn Billings

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Politics Top Gun, official acts, and atrial fibrillation. John Ross | 1.9.2026 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly...

09.01.2026 7

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John Ross

What Kind of Immunity for ICE Agents?

immunity A guest post by Prof. Michael Mannheimer. Ilya Somin | 1.9.2026 9:17 PM Professor Michael Mannheimer (Northern Kentucky University) is the...

09.01.2026 3

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Ilya Somin