A Private Reprimand From The Fifth Circuit With Dissents To Make It Public

How Right-Wing Politics Make You Physically Ill

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

Is Private Equity Really 'Buying Up the Rituals of American Childhood'?

Proponents of California’s Wealth Tax Unintentionally Make the Case Against It

SCOTUS Summarily Reverses The "Inquisitorial" Fourth Circuit Twice In One Term

California Public Sector Union Threatens Environmental Lawsuit Over Gavin Newsom's Return-to-Office Policy

Markwayne Mullin's Less 'Flashy' DHS Is Using the Same Thuggish Tactics

Open Thread

Trump Loves Accusing Critics of Treason. U.S. Law Makes That Charge Hard To Prove—for Good Reason.

Trump Administration Will Appeal Ruling Requiring Tariff Refunds

Japan's Smoking Bans Make a Lot More Sense Than America's

How the Billionaire Tax Could Make California Poorer

Prof. Ronald Den Otter Guest-Blogging on "Education in Democracy: The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Schools"

Does Reporting Bad News About the Iran War Make You a Foreign Agent?

Defamation Claim Against University-Owned Public Radio Station Dismissed on State Sovereign Immunity Grounds

A Snippet of a Conversation Between ChatGPT and Me

Pope Leo XIV: AI Wealth Must Be Universally Shared

"The age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over. You can either decide AI submissions are fine, or you can filter for them"

He appeared to be a pauper, but John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed was quite successful, owning 1,200 acres across three states

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