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Today in Supreme Court History: July 27, 1929

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The Government Is Choking Off Wineries

Regulation C. Jarrett Dieterle | 7.27.2024 6:00 AM The drinks world has been rocked by dramatic media stories about barren patches of California...

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C. Jarrett Dieterle

"The Facts Alleged … Tell a Remarkable Story of Resilience and Duplicity" Related to Adoption of Afghan Orphan

Parental Rights Eugene Volokh | 7.26.2024 8:01 AM From Doe v. Mast , decided Wednesday by Judge Norman Moon (W.D. Va.) (for more on the recent...

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Accused Salman Rushdie Stabber Also Charged with Support for Hezbollah

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 7.26.2024 8:13 AM From a Justice Department press release; Matar is also awaiting trial for murder in New York state...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: July 26, 1892

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Josh Blackman

Brickbat: Pants on Fire

Government abuse Charles Oliver | 7.26.2024 4:00 AM St. Louis firefighter Arnold Britt has pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and...

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Charles Oliver

Trump Calls for Jailing Flag Burners

First Amendment Emma Camp | 7.26.2024 11:49 AM In reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress on Wednesday,...

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Emma Camp

Home-Based Businesses Win Relief From Regulators

Regulation J.D. Tuccille | 7.26.2024 7:00 AM Recent years have seen a renewed surge in new small business start-ups after decades of slowing...

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Kamala's Fabricated Gen Z Appeal

Kamala Harris Liz Wolfe | 7.26.2024 9:32 AM "kamala IS brat,"  tweeted singer Charli XCX on Sunday, following Vice President Kamala Harris'...

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How to Fix the Dark Side of the Olympics

Sports Ilya Somin | 7.26.2024 2:03 PM Today is the first day of the 2024 summer Olympic Games, held in Paris. I'm a big sports fan, and I love...

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Ilya Somin

'Karens for Kamala?' Inside the White Women Zoom Call for Harris

Kamala Harris Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.26.2024 1:09 PM "Karens for Kamala?" actress Connie Britton joked. Britton was one of two celebrities,...

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With Deadpool & Wolverine, Marvel Has Lost the Plot

Movies Peter Suderman | 7.26.2024 10:45 AM If nothing else, it's perfectly telling that Deadpool & Wolverine takes place in a liminal space called...

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Martin Indyk Got Us Knee-Deep Into the Middle East—and Then Tried To Get Us Out

Obituaries Matthew Petti | 7.26.2024 11:45 AM The first and only time I met Ambassador Martin Indyk was in February 2020, at the offices of The...

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Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

Privacy Matthew Petti | 7.26.2024 5:09 PM The Fourth Amendment still applies at the border, despite the feds' insistence that it doesn't. For...

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

John Ross | 7.26.2024 4:09 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for...

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She Underpaid a Property Tax Bill. So the Government Seized Her Home, Sold It—and Kept the $102,636 Profit.

Property Rights Billy Binion | 7.26.2024 3:48 PM In 2021, Manistee County, Michigan, took the title on Chelsea Koetter's family home, which she...

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This Revolutionary Robotic Suit Enabled a Paralyzed Man to Carry the Olympic Torch

Robots Eric Boehm | 7.26.2024 4:00 PM If Kevin Piette ever had any dreams of making it to the Olympics, they likely ended when the young tennis...

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"Wall Slammer" Kagan Seems to Endorse Ethics Code Enforcement at Supreme Court

Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 7.25.2024 10:22 PM Justice Elena Kagan did not write many opinions this term—eleven total including her...

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No, the Secret Service Is Not Underfunded

Secret service Joe Lancaster | 7.25.2024 4:02 PM In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate, much attention has...

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Jarkesy Should Not Have Been So Easy For Justice Barrett

Politics Josh Blackman | 7.25.2024 8:31 AM Justice Barrett has explained that she writes separately when she has the need to articulate some...

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Josh Blackman

Today in Supreme Court History: July 25, 1965

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The Supreme Court's "Scholar Justice"

Amy Coney Barrett Jonathan H. Adler | 7.25.2024 12:06 PM A substantial amount of Supreme Court commentary after this past term has focused on...

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The Border Czar Illusion

Reason Roundup Liz Wolfe | 7.25.2024 9:30 AM It was all a dream: "President [Joe] Biden is putting Vice President [Kamala] Harris in charge of...

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America Deserves a Boring Vice President

Election 2024 Bekah Congdon | 7.25.2024 12:55 PM A tumultuous decade of politics just culminated in a fortnight where the former president was...

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She 'Came at Me With Boiling Water,' a Cop Charged With Murder Claims, Contradicting What Video Shows

Police Abuse Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2024 2:10 PM Early in the morning on July 6, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old resident of Springfield, Illinois, called...

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Bad News for Universal Basic Income

Basic Income Eric Boehm | 7.25.2024 1:45 PM The largest study into the real-world consequences of giving people an extra $1,000 per month, with no...

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Media Coverage of 'Border Czar' Kamala Harris Is Cringe

Media Criticism Robby Soave | 7.25.2024 10:51 AM For the last month, the mainstream media have set their sights on President Joe Biden, generating...

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Alex Thompson: Why Did Biden Drop Out?

Election 2024 Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe | 7.25.2024 3:15 PM HD Video Download The past month has been one of the most tumultuous in modern...

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Biden Brags That 'the United States Is Not at War' As He Bombs Yemen

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 7.25.2024 11:25 AM President Joe Biden called himself "the first president this century to report to the American...

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Should Consumers Expect to Find Bones in "Boneless Wings"?

Textualism Jonathan H. Adler | 7.25.2024 6:10 PM If a restaurant customer finds a bone in an order of "boneless wings" can they sue? What if the...

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Brickbat: 'Limited Value'

Politics Charles Oliver | 7.25.2024 4:00 AM Seattle interim Police Chief Sue Rahr has fired Officer Daniel Auderer, the vice president of the...

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Kamala Harris Failed The California Bar On Her First Try

Politics Josh Blackman | 7.25.2024 8:01 AM Vice President Kamala Harris graduated from UC Hastings Law School in 1989, and sat for the July 1989...

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Thursday Open Thread

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: July 24, 1997

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Josh Blackman

The 'Pro-Worker' GOP Is Anti-Worker

Republican Party Veronique de Rugy | 7.25.2024 12:01 AM Members of the new right wing of the Republican Party have proclaimed themselves the...

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The Federal Trade Commission Needs To Stay in its Lane

Federal Trade Commission Kevin Frazier | 7.24.2024 7:30 AM In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Supreme Court Justice David Davis...

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Even After the Harris-Biden Substitution, the Presidential Race Still Sucks

Kamala Harris J.D. Tuccille | 7.24.2024 7:00 AM An old joke frames Washington, D.C. as Hollywood for ugly people. But it's more accurate to say...

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Free Speech Unmuted: Speech and Violence

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Eugene Volokh

No Pseudonymity for Plaintiff Professor Who Sued Colleague and University Alleging Rape

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 7.24.2024 11:42 AM From Doe v. St Lawrence Univ. , decided earlier this month by Magistrate Judge Daniel Stewart...

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No Clearly Established Right to Communicate with a Horse

Eugene Volokh | 7.24.2024 11:15 AM In Meyler v. Mayor & City Council of Ocean City , decided last month by Judge James Bredar (D. Md.), police...

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New in the American Spectator: The 11th Circuit Should Reject Jack Smith's Past Political Justifications to Expedite His Latest Appeal

Politics Josh Blackman | 7.24.2024 8:30 AM Seth Barrett Tillman and I published a new essay in the American Spectator concerning Special Counsel...

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Unlike Biden and Trump, Kamala Harris Has Repeatedly Supported Pot Legalization

Election 2024 Jacob Sullum | 7.24.2024 3:00 PM Last May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed a rule that would move marijuana from Schedule I...

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'The Problem Is Spending': Libertarian Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver's Vision for the Future

Election 2024 John Stossel | 7.24.2024 11:40 AM Now it's former President Donald Trump versus Vice President Kamala Harris. But there will be...

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Congressional Budget Office Estimates Recent Increase in Immigration will Reduce the Budget Deficit

Immigration Ilya Somin | 7.24.2024 3:03 PM A standard defense of immigration restrictions advanced by many libertarians and conservatives is the...

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Senate To Vote on Web Censorship Bill Disguised as Kids Safety

Social Media Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.24.2024 11:00 AM Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) will force a vote this week on the Kids...

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Will an Ohio Judge Lose His Law License?

Judiciary Jonathan H. Adler | 7.24.2024 10:05 AM Longtime VC readers may recall the "censorious thuggery" of Geauga County, Ohio Judge Timothy...

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En Banc Fifth Circuit Concludes FCC's "Universal Service" Fee Is Unconstitutional

Nondelegation Jonathan H. Adler | 7.24.2024 1:46 PM Today, in  Consumers' Research v. FCC , the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth...

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Ted and Courtney Balaker: College Students Are Rejecting Wokeness

College Nick Gillespie | 7.24.2024 11:15 AM HD Video Download Ted and Courtney Balaker are the team behind the new documentary The Coddling of the...

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What Does Kamala Harris Actually Want?

Reason Roundup Liz Wolfe | 7.24.2024 9:29 AM What does Kamala Harris stand for? Over the course of a few short days, Vice President Kamala Harris...

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Will Be Talking about Impeachment and Campus Free Speech in DC

Campus Free Speech Keith E. Whittington | 7.24.2024 11:37 AM On Thursday, July 25, the American Enterprise Institute will be hosting a conference...

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The DEA Claims To Be Able To Search Your Bag Without Your Consent. But Can They?

DEA Patrick McDonald | 7.24.2024 12:37 PM Can federal law enforcement demand an impromptu spot-check of your bag after you pass through airport...

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Over 1 Million People Flee Cuba in Just Two Years

Immigration Ilya Somin | 7.24.2024 4:18 PM   The Miami Herald reports that, in 2022-23, a staggering 1 million people  fled Cuba's communist...

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Ilya Somin

Kamala Harris's Unduly Narrow View of Bodily Autonomy

Kamala Harris Ilya Somin | 7.24.2024 5:30 PM   Vice President Kamala Harris, President Biden's likely replacement on the Democratic ticket, is...

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Ilya Somin

HIV-Positive Sex Workers No Longer Required To Register As Violent Sex Offenders In Tennessee

Sex Work Emma Camp | 7.24.2024 3:50 PM Since 2010, HIV-positive sex workers in Tennessee have been required to register for life on the state's sex...

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Netflix's 'Don't Look Up' Got $46 Million From Massachusetts Taxpayers

Tax credits Joe Lancaster | 7.24.2024 4:40 PM Newly released state revenue data shows that Massachusetts taxpayers played a major role in funding a...

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Brickbat: Caught a Big One

Fraud Charles Oliver | 7.24.2024 4:00 AM The city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost $773,000 in a phishing scam in 2022, but officials did not disclose...

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Academic Tuition and Student Loan Relief

Steven Calabresi | 7.23.2024 2:07 AM There is an important issue that reached the Supreme Court in Biden v. Nebraska , 600 U.S. 477 (2023)....

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Cops Threaten To Take Kids From Family Terrorized by Anti-Christian Reddit Group

Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy | 7.23.2024 5:20 PM J.D. Lott and his wife Britney were eating lunch with their eight kids on April 30 when he missed...

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Evolution's New Narrative

Science David P. Mindell | 7.23.2024 4:00 PM The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated. I am not casting doubt on the fact of evolution....

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Today in Supreme Court History: July 23, 1936

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Josh Blackman

Is a Parking Structure a Building, When It Comes to Ban on Gun Possession "in Any Publicly Owned Building"?

Guns Eugene Volokh | 7.23.2024 10:41 AM From a South Carolina Attorney General July 9 opinion: We received your letter requesting an Attorney...

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The Latest in the Prosecution of eBay Managers for Cyberstalking Online Critics

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 7.23.2024 10:36 AM From the Justice Department's Thursday press release: The former Senior Manager of Special...

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Biden's Withdrawal From the Presidential Race is not Anti-Democratic

Democracy Ilya Somin | 7.23.2024 10:20 AM There's plenty of room for disagreement over whether President Biden's decision to withdraw from the...

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Ilya Somin

Is Joe Biden 'Brave' for Dropping Out?

Election 2024 Joe Lancaster | 7.23.2024 2:45 PM On Sunday, President Joe Biden made history when he ended his reelection bid, becoming the first...

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Harris Promises Expensive Paid Leave and Child Care Subsidies in First Campaign Speech

Kamala Harris Eric Boehm | 7.23.2024 12:20 PM What's an unpopular politician with low charisma and an unflattering record to do when she's suddenly...

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Demand Subsidies, Price Controls, and Coconut Trees

Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 7.23.2024 11:05 AM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. For the past couple of weeks,...

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Secretive Service

Secret service Liz Wolfe | 7.23.2024 9:30 AM Secret Service had one job: A week and a half ago, an assassin attempted to shoot former President...

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Liz Wolfe

Michigan Supreme Court Rules Against Detroit's Asset Forfeiture Racket

Civil Asset Forfeiture C.J. Ciaramella | 7.23.2024 3:00 PM Detroit police can no longer seize cars through civil asset forfeiture unless they can...

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Graduate Students for Academic Freedom v. Graduate Students United at UChicago

Politics Will Baude | 7.23.2024 7:30 AM A few years ago, the graduate students at the University of Chicago, where I teach, formed a legally...

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What James C. Scott Taught Us About Liberty, Authority, Surveillance, and Resistance

Obituaries Jesse Walker | 7.23.2024 10:03 AM James C. Scott, who died July 19 at age 87, was one of the most original and radical political...

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The DEA Wants To Ban Scientifically 'Crucial' Psychedelics Because People Might Use Them

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 7.23.2024 5:05 PM You probably have never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), let alone heard that it is...

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Faulty Facial Recognition Tech Got Him Arrested. Now He's Getting a $300,000 Payout.

Police Emma Camp | 7.23.2024 1:29 PM In 2020, Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested after facial recognition software incorrectly identified him...

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Emma Camp

Biden's Big Government Solutions Dismiss Customer Welfare

Biden Administration Rand Paul | 7.23.2024 2:25 PM The ostensible purpose of antitrust policy is to promote healthy competition in the marketplace,...

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Brickbat: Every Breath You Take

Police Abuse Charles Oliver | 7.23.2024 4:00 AM The Los Angeles Times, citing sources close to the investigation, reports that a disciplinary board...

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Charles Oliver

The Best of Reason: Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything'

Regulation Jacob Sullum | 7.23.2024 6:00 PM This week's featured article is "Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything'" by Jacob Sullum. This...

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Promising To Restore 'Law and Order,' Trump Falsely Claims Crime Is Rising

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 7.24.2024 12:01 AM "Our crime rate is going up," former President Donald Trump claimed during the Republican National...

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New Analysis Finds Lasting Impact for Students Affected by COVID School Lockdowns

Coronavirus Emma Camp | 7.23.2024 4:50 PM Over four years after the start of mass school lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, many children are...

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Chief Justice Roberts, The Judicial Supremacist in Jarkesy

Politics Josh Blackman | 7.23.2024 8:32 AM Jarksey continues a trend by the Chief Justice: the transfer of power from the executive and legislative...

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Mercatus Center Study Documents Progress on Housing Reform

Housing Policy Ilya Somin | 7.22.2024 5:21 PM A new Mercatus Center study documents encouraging progress on housing reform so far this year. The...

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New Episode: Evil Batman

Will Baude | 7.22.2024 9:41 PM In the most recent episode of Divided Argument, "Evil Batman," Dan Epps and I talk about the Court's two big non-...

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Biden's Out. Harris Is In. Everyone Else Is Screwed.

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 7.22.2024 5:00 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

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Second Amendment Roundup: 8th Circuit Rules for 18 to 20-Year-Olds

Stephen Halbrook | 7.22.2024 9:36 PM Anyone hoping that the Supreme Court's Rahimi decision (which I analyzed here) would represent a roll-back in...

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Biden's Race-Ending Debate Performance Was So Bad That It Eclipsed Trump's Flagrant Falsehoods

Politics Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2024 4:40 PM President Joe Biden's performance in his June 27 debate with Donald Trump was so bad that it ultimately...

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Nina Jankowicz's Libel Lawsuit Against Fox News Network Dismissed by Federal Judge

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 7.22.2024 4:11 PM From today's decision by Chief Judge Colm Connolly (D. Del.) in Jankowicz v. Fox News Network :...

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Secret Service Director Receives Bipartisan Condemnation in Oversight Hearing

Secret service Joe Lancaster | 7.22.2024 4:10 PM On Monday, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appeared before the House Oversight Committee,...

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