The headlines framed it as another Trump tariff story: Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatening a 25 percent retaliation on American energy exports. But the real story of the Northeastern energy crisis is more than cross-border drama and goes back well before the tariffs and trumpeting. Ford’s threat is the latest lash in a decades-long ritual […]
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare, by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez, Stanford University Press, 212 pages, $24 If there’s one part of foreign policy where President Donald Trump has been consistent, it’s economic sanctions on Iran. During his first presidency, Trump imposed what the State Department […]
On Wednesday, Justice Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in Bondi v. VanDerStock. My prediction that Justice Barrett would write this majority opinion was wrong. I was right that Justice Thomas had Bufkin, the Veterans Claim case, and Alito had San Francisco v. E Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a […]
Ricardo Garcia, a former deputy with Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff’s Department, was sentenced to one year in jail and three years of probation after being found guilty of two counts of attempted sexual assault and two counts of sexual abuse for try Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to […]
A prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Mar. 16, 2025Â (El Salvador Presidential Press Office) Â Earlier today, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld a district court temporary restraining order blocking the Trump Administration from using […]
I posted yesterday about why I wrote my new book, The Digital Fourth Amendment. In this post, I want to give an overview of the book. What’s the subject, and what’s the argument? Welcome to 2025. If the government is trying to solve a criminal case these days, they’ll often look for digital records. Sometimes […]
In a party-line vote last evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Stanford professor and medical researcher Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The confirmation of Bhattacharya—an early, prominent skeptic of COVID-era lockdowns and mandates—comes at a pivotal time for the NIH and its oversight of risky pandemic research. There’s been a […]
Given that the VC is a blog that is heavily focused on the law and the legal profession in all of its various manifestations, I think it is incumbent upon us to at least pay a little bit of attention to the Trump Administration’s continuing attacks on lawyers and judges, if only to ensure that […]
Various corners of the media and internet are hyperventilating over the alleged genetic privacy implications of the imminent Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe. “Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now,” yelps a headline over at The Washington Post. Why? “Unless you take action, there is a risk your genetic information […]
A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School. This episode features a conversation with David Cole about the current situation at Columbia University. David Cole is the Honorable George J. […]