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Today in Supreme Court History: January 17, 1973 and January 17, 1996

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Josh Blackman

Why Can't New York Get Rid of 2-Person Subway Crews?

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C. Jarrett Dieterle

Open Thread

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Eugene Volokh

Hecox May Still Hide In Justice Kennedy's Shadow

There is nothing originalist about Footnote Four, animus, and suspect classes. Let it go already. Josh Blackman | 1.16.2026 1:38 AM When Skrmetti...

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Josh Blackman

When a Justice Shares The Name With The Party

Justice Barrett did not write Barrett v. United States, but other Justices wrote the majority opinion who shared a name with a party. Josh Blackman...

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Josh Blackman

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

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John Ross

"The Waning of Racial Preferences at American Law Schools, 2021-2025," by My UCLA Colleague Rick Sander

Affirmative Action Eugene Volokh | 1.16.2026 8:32 AM From this new draft, cowritten by Prof. Sander and Henry Kim: In June 2023, the Supreme Court...

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Eugene Volokh

Year in Prison for Role in Hate Crime Hoax

Year in Prison for Role in Hate Crime Hoax

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 1.16.2026 11:20 AM So Judge Regina M. Rodriguez (D. Colo.) decided yesterday in U.S. v. Blackcloud; for more on the...

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Eugene Volokh

Business Is Apparently Selling AI-Hallucination-Filled Documents to Unwary Litigants, Court Says

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: January 16, 1919

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Josh Blackman

Brickbat: Hearty Appetite

Brickbat: Hearty Appetite

Government employees Charles Oliver | 1.16.2026 4:00 AM In Madera County, California, federal authorities arrested former welfare benefits worker...

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Charles Oliver

Arkansas Case on Zoning Laws Being Used to Exclude Gun Shops

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Eugene Volokh

Greenlanders Don't Consent To Becoming Americans

Greenlanders Don't Consent To Becoming Americans

Foreign Policy J.D. Tuccille | 1.16.2026 7:00 AM According to President Donald Trump, taking possession of Greenland is a national security...

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J.d. Tuccille

ICE Agents Flouted DHS Policies That Could Have Prevented Renee Good's Death

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Jacob Sullum

Fix the AI Electricity 'Crisis' by Unleashing Market Forces

Fix the AI Electricity 'Crisis' by Unleashing Market Forces

Free Markets Steven Greenhut | 1.16.2026 7:30 AM The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is causing an AI power crisis, as the electricity...

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Steven Greenhut

Do Cellphones Cause Cancer? RFK Jr.'s HHS Is Suppressing FDA Data Confirming Cellphone Safety.

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Ronald Bailey

Trump's Push To Restore 'Truth and Sanity in American History' Tests Nonpartisan Institutions

Trump's Push To Restore 'Truth and Sanity in American History' Tests Nonpartisan Institutions

Trump Administration Alexandra Stinson | 1.16.2026 12:30 PM Last May, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to restore "Truth and Sanity...

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Alexandra Stinson

ICE vs. Wine Moms, Rogan on Fauci's Crimes, and the Star Wars Prequels

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Robby Soave

Currying Favor

Currying Favor

Venezuela Liz Wolfe | 1.16.2026 9:30 AM Nobel for Trump: María Corina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader and the most recent Nobel Peace Prize...

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Liz Wolfe

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Delivers Anarchy in the U.K., Again

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Delivers Anarchy in the U.K., Again

Movies Peter Suderman | 1.16.2026 11:31 AM 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a movie about the devil, who just happens to be a guy named Jimmy.  A...

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Peter Suderman

Review: D.C.'s $500 Million Shrine to Capitalism

Review: D.C.'s $500 Million Shrine to Capitalism

Capitalism Katherine Mangu-Ward | From the February/March 2026 issue The brand-new Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream is weirdly...

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Katherine Mangu-Ward

She Let Her 6-Year-Old Ride to the Park Alone. Georgia Called It Neglect.

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Lenore Skenazy

Video Shows Feds Shooting ICE Protester With Nonlethal Round at Point-Blank Range, Blinding Him in One Eye

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Autumn Billings

Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing, Abstract to Concrete: Analogies and Metaphors. 

Politics Judge David Weinzweig | 1.16.2026 8:01 AM Make the important interesting.  —James Fallows We have plumbed the depths of abstract words,...

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Judge David Weinzweig

Yes, the Middle Class Is Shrinking—Because It's Moving Up

Yes, the Middle Class Is Shrinking—Because It's Moving Up

Economics Veronique de Rugy | 1.15.2026 3:27 PM "The middle class is shrinking" might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists...

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Veronique De Rugy

Today in Supreme Court History: January 15, 1908

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Josh Blackman

Justice Sotomayor Asks "Have You Studied The People" In SCOTUS Cases.

Justice Sotomayor Asks

I have. Conservative litigants are vilified. Liberal litigants are celebrated. Josh Blackman | 1.15.2026 2:11 AM There was an unusual exchange in ...

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Josh Blackman

More on Lawyer Hijinks in Laura Loomer's and Bill Maher's Depositions

Legal Ethics Eugene Volokh | 1.15.2026 2:07 PM From an order today by Magistrate Judge Philip Lammens in Loomer v. Maher (M.D. Fla.) (the...

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Eugene Volokh

Eyes on Gorsuch as SCOTUS Weighs Transgender Student Athlete Bans

Eyes on Gorsuch as SCOTUS Weighs Transgender Student Athlete Bans

Supreme Court Damon Root | 1.15.2026 7:00 AM The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a pair of cases that ask whether state...

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Damon Root

'We Cannot Be Afraid To Do Something Because the Left Might Do It in the Future'

'We Cannot Be Afraid To Do Something Because the Left Might Do It in the Future'

Executive Power Eric Boehm | From the February/March 2026 issue Asked by a college student if Republicans ought to be more cautious about "abusing...

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Eric Boehm

Second Amendment Roundup: Hawaii's Ban on Firearms on Property Open to the Public

In Wolford, the Supreme Court should clarify the facial/as-applied issue. Stephen Halbrook | 1.15.2026 9:44 PM As we have been posting, on January...

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Stephen Halbrook

Heating Up

Heating Up

Immigration Liz Wolfe | 1.15.2026 9:30 AM Last night in Minneapolis, a Venezuelan immigrant who was evading arrest was shot in the leg by federal...

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Liz Wolfe

When is a Corporation Also New Jersey?

Supreme Court A few thoughts on the oral argument in Galette v. N.J. Transit Corp. Stephen E. Sachs | 1.15.2026 4:55 PM The Supreme Court heard...

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Stephen E. Sachs

Andrew Hale Leaves Heritage for Advancing American Freedom

"I can roll with policy changes, but what I can't roll with is a tolerance or an overlooking of antisemitism or any form of bigotry." Josh Blackman...

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Josh Blackman

Brickbat: It Might Be Safer To Walk

Brickbat: It Might Be Safer To Walk

Government employees Charles Oliver | 1.15.2026 4:00 AM Former Littleton, Colorado, school bus aide Kiarra Jones pleaded guilty to multiple charges...

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Charles Oliver

Opinion Allowing Elon Musk's Claims Against OpenAI to Go Forward, Partly Allowing Claims Against Microsoft

Eugene Volokh | 1.15.2026 7:50 PM The opinion by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (N.D. Cal.) in Musk v. Altman was just posted. Musk's breach of...

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Eugene Volokh

Can You Waive A Substantive Canon?

Justice Gorsuch suggested that the West Virginia did not raise the clear statement rule, Justice Sotomayor countered that a substantive canon...

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Josh Blackman

What If A Supreme Court Case Becomes Moot Before June?

Hecox will not graduate in May, but such mootness could have arisen in King v. Burwell. Josh Blackman | 1.15.2026 11:41 AM Last night (or was it...

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Josh Blackman

Seizing Greenland Might Be the Least Popular Idea in American Political History

Seizing Greenland Might Be the Least Popular Idea in American Political History

Trump Administration Eric Boehm | 1.15.2026 11:15 AM President Donald Trump's push to seize Greenland might be the least popular idea in American...

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Eric Boehm

Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing: Impactful Introductions

Politics Judge David Weinzweig | 1.15.2026 8:01 AM A great introduction is fine art, crafted with great care and purpose. A first impression...

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Judge David Weinzweig

American Quartz Manufacturers Want To Make Kitchen Countertops Even More Expensive

Tariffs Jack Nicastro | 1.15.2026 12:38 PM The Trump administration's trade war has raised the cost of everyday goods, appliances, and the overall...

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Jack Nicastro

Renee Good Was a Casualty of Trump's Order Against 'Political Violence'

Renee Good Was a Casualty of Trump's Order Against 'Political Violence'

Violence Joe Lancaster | 1.15.2026 1:15 PM Last week in Minneapolis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot and...

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Joe Lancaster

Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation Drops Suit Against Inter-American Development Bank, After Court Holds It Can't Sue as "Doe Corporation"

Free Speech The case helps illustrate why the legal rules surrounding when parties can litigate under pseudonyms are so important. Eugene Volokh |...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: January 14, 1780

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Josh Blackman

Trump vs. Free Markets

Trump Administration J.D. Tuccille | 1.14.2026 7:00 AM Whatever debilitating brain parasite burrowed into the gray matter of American politics over...

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J.d. Tuccille

Can We Save American History From Partisan Politics?

History Eric Boehm | 1.14.2026 11:00 AM HD Video Download This week, guest host Eric Boehm is joined by Colleen Shogan, the former archivist of the...

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Eric Boehm

Is Australian Attorney and Activist Randa Abdel-Fattah an "Extremist Terrorist Sympathizer"?

Is Australian Attorney and Activist Randa Abdel-Fattah an

David Bernstein | 1.14.2026 9:22 AM Randa Abdel-Fattah is an Australian writer, attorney, and "antizionist" activist of Egyptian and Palestinian...

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David Bernstein

The Postal Service's 'Next Generation' Electric Delivery Vehicles Cost $22,000 More Than Other Electric Vans

The Postal Service's 'Next Generation' Electric Delivery Vehicles Cost $22,000 More Than Other Electric Vans

Energy Subsidies Jack Nicastro | 1.14.2026 11:15 AM In 2014, the United States Postal Service (USPS) began replacing its fleet of delivery...

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Jack Nicastro

Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing, Word Choice

Politics Distrust badverbs. Judge David Weinzweig | 1.14.2026 8:01 AM Adverbs were invented to serve other words and phrases, like Robin to Batman,...

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Judge David Weinzweig

Florida Governor Candidate Proposes 50 Percent Tax on OnlyFans Creator Revenue

Florida Governor Candidate Proposes 50 Percent Tax on OnlyFans Creator Revenue

Florida Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.14.2026 12:52 PM Politicians proposing extra taxes on pornography purchases or proceeds is nothing new. But...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown