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Wednesday Open Thread

Wednesday Open Thread
yesterday 20

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: April 9, 1923

Today in Supreme Court History: April 9, 1923
yesterday 9

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Josh Blackman

Mel Gibson Got His Gun Rights Back, but Millions of Americans With No History of Violence Are Still Waiting

Mel Gibson Got His Gun Rights Back, but Millions of Americans With No History of Violence Are Still Waiting

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 4.9.2025 12:01 AM Like millions of Americans, Mel Gibson has a criminal record that disqualifies him from legally...

yesterday 20

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Jacob Sullum

Brickbat: Flipping Out

Brickbat: Flipping Out

Higher Education Charles Oliver | 4.9.2025 4:00 AM José Felipe Alvergue, chairman of the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Eau...

yesterday 10

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Charles Oliver

Many Politicians Want To Ban Gambling. So Why Are They OK With State Lotteries?

Gambling John Stossel | 4.9.2025 1:15 AM Did you bet on March Madness? I did, and many of you did, too. Americans bet billions on NCAA tournaments....

yesterday 10

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John Stossel

Trump Abuses Government Power To Punish Democrats' Law Firms

Trump Abuses Government Power To Punish Democrats' Law Firms

Donald Trump J.D. Tuccille | 4.9.2025 7:00 AM Misuse of government power by politicians to punish their enemies is an old story. The Biden...

yesterday 10

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J.d. Tuccille

Rand Paul Is Leading Another Long-Shot Effort at Stopping Trump's Terrible Trade War

Rand Paul Is Leading Another Long-Shot Effort at Stopping Trump's Terrible Trade War

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 4.9.2025 9:51 AM Lawmakers from both parties and both houses of Congress have launched a long-shot effort at stopping...

yesterday 3

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Eric Boehm

Don't Trust the Experts. Make Them Up!

Don't Trust the Experts. Make Them Up!

Politics Liz Wolfe | 4.9.2025 9:30 AM Paging Ron Vara: If you were, say, a White House trade adviser who had been part of crafting the tariff plan...

yesterday 2

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Liz Wolfe

Rand Paul: Why I Oppose Trump's Tariffs

Rand Paul: Why I Oppose Trump's Tariffs

Tariffs Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe | 4.9.2025 10:15 AM HD Video Download Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) has been speaking out against President Donald...

yesterday 3

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Zach Weissmueller

Cambridge Brothel Case: What's the Point?

Cambridge Brothel Case: What's the Point?

Sex Work Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.9.2025 11:55 AM Massachusetts is in the midst of prosecuting people who patronized a fancy sex business near...

yesterday 1

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Mark Clifford: A Political Prisoner Fights for Free Speech in China

Hong Kong Billy Binion | 4.9.2025 11:00 AM HD Video Download Today's guest is Mark Clifford, former editor in chief of the South China Morning...

yesterday 0

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Billy Binion

John Roberts Only Postponed the Bigger Fight Over Trump's Deportations

John Roberts Only Postponed the Bigger Fight Over Trump's Deportations

Donald Trump Damon Root | 4.9.2025 12:40 PM The U.S. Supreme Court's unsigned order in the Venezuelan deportation case Trump v. J.G.G. was a...

yesterday 0

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Damon Root

ACLU Files Habeas Class Action to Block Alien Enemies Act Deportations

yesterday 0

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Ilya Somin

Argentina Strikes $20 Billion Deal With IMF To Fuel Milei's Reforms

yesterday 0

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Katarina Hall

Markets Rally as Trump Pauses Tariffs. Should Presidents Have This Much Power?

yesterday 0

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Joe Lancaster

Trump Partially Pauses "Liberation Day" Tariffs

yesterday 0

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Ilya Somin

Florida Lawmakers Don't Want You To Know When a Cop Shoots Someone

yesterday 0

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Autumn Billings

On Remand, the 5th Circuit Again Blocks a Lawsuit by a Texas Reporter Arrested for Newsgathering

yesterday 0

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Jacob Sullum

Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Claim That He Can Summarily Deport Anyone He Describes As an 'Alien Enemy'

Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Claim That He Can Summarily Deport Anyone He Describes As an 'Alien Enemy'

Trump Administration Jacob Sullum | 4.8.2025 3:40 PM The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously agreed that alleged members of the Venezuelan gang...

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Jacob Sullum

Today in Supreme Court History: April 8, 1952

Today in Supreme Court History: April 8, 1952
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Josh Blackman

Seventh Circuit Judicial Council Dismisses Misconduct Complaint Against Judge Vaden

Seventh Circuit Judicial Council Dismisses Misconduct Complaint Against Judge Vaden

Josh Blackman | 4.8.2025 8:15 PM In December, I wrote about a misconduct complaint filed against Judge Stephen Vaden of the Court of International...

previous day 8

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Josh Blackman

AP Gets Preliminary Injunction Reversing Exclusion from Oval Office Press Pool

AP Gets Preliminary Injunction Reversing Exclusion from Oval Office Press Pool

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.8.2025 6:16 PM I'm on the road and can't discuss this in detail, but I thought I'd pass along a few excerpts from...

previous day 5

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Eugene Volokh

Standing in the Shadow Docket

Standing in the Shadow Docket

Josh Blackman | 4.8.2025 3:58 PM Today the Supreme Court issued another order on the emergency docket. In Office of Personnel Management v....

previous day 3

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Josh Blackman

Elon Musk Says Peter Navarro Is 'Dumber Than a Sack of Bricks'

Elon Musk Says Peter Navarro Is 'Dumber Than a Sack of Bricks'

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 4.8.2025 3:15 PM Imagine an alternate reality where President Donald Trump's top trade adviser was a bulging Hefty trash...

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Eric Boehm

Slow and Steady

Slow and Steady

California Christian Britschgi | 4.8.2025 2:20 PM Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: But...

previous day 2

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Christian Britschgi

Trump's Manly Tariffs

Trump's Manly Tariffs

Tariffs Liz Wolfe | 4.8.2025 9:30 AM The manufactured pause: Yesterday, news spread that the Trump administration was considering a 90-day pause to...

previous day 3

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Liz Wolfe

Milton Friedman's Warning to DOGE

Milton Friedman's Warning to DOGE

DOGE Zach Weissmueller | 4.8.2025 11:40 AM "Wise words," wrote Elon Musk about this 1999 viral clip described as "Milton Friedman casually giving...

previous day 4

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Zach Weissmueller

Tariffs Come for Your Jerseys, Gym Clothes, and Sports Team

Tariffs Come for Your Jerseys, Gym Clothes, and Sports Team

Tariffs Jason Russell | 4.8.2025 10:00 AM Good morning and welcome to another edition of Free Agent ! Don't forget to take your absolutely enormous...

previous day 3

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Jason Russell

Rights and Wrongs of the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Alien Enemies Act Case

Rights and Wrongs of the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Alien Enemies Act Case

Immigration Ilya Somin | 4.7.2025 11:57 PM   Tonight's Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. JGG  is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it overturns lower...

previous day 20

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Ilya Somin

Brickbat: Like Being Back in School

Brickbat: Like Being Back in School

Public schools Charles Oliver | 4.8.2025 4:00 AM Six U.K. police officers arrested Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine at their home in Hertfordshire...

previous day 2

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Charles Oliver

The FBI Wrongly Raided a Georgia Family's Home. Now Their Case Is Going to the Supreme Court.

The FBI Wrongly Raided a Georgia Family's Home. Now Their Case Is Going to the Supreme Court.

Police Abuse Billy Binion | From the May 2025 issue On an early morning in 2017, Trina Martin was shocked by a pyrotechnic exhibit she compares to...

previous day 20

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Billy Binion

Border Cops Try To Make an End Run Around Attorney-Client Privilege

Border Cops Try To Make an End Run Around Attorney-Client Privilege

Fourth Amendment Matthew Petti | 4.8.2025 5:00 PM Attorney-client confidentiality is one of the oldest pillars of American justice. Americans not...

previous day 10

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Matthew Petti

Twice, SCOTUS Finds Coastal Courts Improperly Exercised Venue

Twice, SCOTUS Finds Coastal Courts Improperly Exercised Venue

Josh Blackman | 4.7.2025 8:12 PM On March 30, I wrote a post titled "Coastal Judges Play Keep-Away From The Fifth Circuit." One week later, the...

monday 20

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Josh Blackman

Can A Federal Court Force The President To Negotiate With A Foreign Leader To Obtain Return of Alien?

Can A Federal Court Force The President To Negotiate With A Foreign Leader To Obtain Return of Alien?

Josh Blackman | 4.7.2025 2:42 PM Earlier today, Solicitor General Sauer filed his first emergency application with the Supreme Court. This case...

monday 6

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Josh Blackman

What Exactly Did Justice Barrett Disagree With The Majority About In Trump v. JGG?

What Exactly Did Justice Barrett Disagree With The Majority About In Trump v. JGG?

Josh Blackman | 4.7.2025 9:04 PM The vote in  Trump v. JGG was 5-4. Here, Chief Justice Roberts joined Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and...

monday 3

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Josh Blackman

The Trump Administration Should Focus on Deregulation, Not Tariffs

The Trump Administration Should Focus on Deregulation, Not Tariffs

Regulation J.D. Tuccille | 4.7.2025 7:00 AM President Donald Trump's justifications for tariffs keep shifting—one moment they're to cut the flow of...

monday 20

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J.d. Tuccille

Louisianans Overwhelmingly Reject Gov. Jeff Landry's Amendments

Louisianans Overwhelmingly Reject Gov. Jeff Landry's Amendments

State Governments Autumn Billings | 4.7.2025 3:21 PM Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana voters have rejected all four state constitutional amendments...

monday 4

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Autumn Billings

How Obama and Biden Paved the Way for Trump's Attacks on Universities

How Obama and Biden Paved the Way for Trump's Attacks on Universities

Campus Free Speech Robby Soave | 4.7.2025 8:00 AM President Donald Trump has been laying siege to Columbia University, canceling $400 million in...

monday 4

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Robby Soave

The Eggdex: Price of Eggs Up More Than 100 Percent in the Past 5 Years

The Eggdex: Price of Eggs Up More Than 100 Percent in the Past 5 Years

Inflation Jason Russell | From the May 2025 issue You might want to start protecting your egg cartons with Bubble Wrap. Egg prices hit a new high...

monday 3

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Jason Russell

Brickbat: To Observe, not Report

Brickbat: To Observe, not Report

Police Charles Oliver | 4.7.2025 4:00 AM A police officer in Miami, Florida has been suspended pending an investigation into an incident in which...

monday 2

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Charles Oliver

Trump's Tariffs: It's Not Just the Stock Market That's In Trouble

Trump's Tariffs: It's Not Just the Stock Market That's In Trouble

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 4.7.2025 11:15 AM President Donald Trump's tariffs vaporized $6 trillion in value from the stock market in just two days of...

monday 2

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Eric Boehm

Study: Kids With Smartphones Are Less Depressed, Anxious, Bullied Than Peers Without Them

Study: Kids With Smartphones Are Less Depressed, Anxious, Bullied Than Peers Without Them

Children Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.7.2025 10:34 AM It's funny how much media coverage is devoted to anything suggesting that phones might be...

monday 3

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Sellouts and Selloffs

Sellouts and Selloffs

Free Trade Liz Wolfe | 4.7.2025 9:32 AM Three-day selloff continues: "The carnage in financial markets worsened on Monday with stressed-out...

monday 2

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Liz Wolfe

Trump Advisors Struggle To Defend, or Even Explain, His Tariff Strategy

Trump Advisors Struggle To Defend, or Even Explain, His Tariff Strategy

Tariffs Joe Lancaster | 4.7.2025 12:45 PM President Donald Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs went into effect over the weekend, imposing a 10 percent...

monday 1

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Joe Lancaster

Can A Federal Court Issue Mandamus Against The President?

Can A Federal Court Issue Mandamus Against The President?

Josh Blackman | 4.7.2025 5:22 PM Today, the En Banc D.C. Circuit vacated the panel ruling finding that President Trump's removal of NLRB members...

monday 20

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Josh Blackman

A Computational Error May Be Driving the Size of the Tariffs

A Computational Error May Be Driving the Size of the Tariffs

Jim Lindgren | 4.7.2025 1:37 PM In an American Enterprise Institute article, Kevin Corinth and Stan Veuger claim that the Administration made a...

monday 1

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Jim Lindgren

Colossal Biosciences Resurrects Long-Extinct Dire Wolf

Colossal Biosciences Resurrects Long-Extinct Dire Wolf

Extinction Ronald Bailey | 4.7.2025 5:00 PM Dire wolves went extinct around 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. Weighing around 150...

monday 30

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Ronald Bailey

Can Anyone Stop Trump's Tariffs?

Tariffs Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, and Nick Gillespie | 4.7.2025 4:13 PM HD Video Download In this week's The Reason...

monday 20

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Katherine Mangu-Ward

Monday Open Thread

Monday Open Thread
monday 20

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: April 7, 1969

Today in Supreme Court History: April 7, 1969
monday 4

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Josh Blackman