When Kirk Wolff sat down to do some homework on the law school campus of the University of Virginia (UVA) earlier this month, he didn’t expect that he’d be threatened with expulsion. Wolff had brought two poster board signs with him as he sat outside—one read “GAZA RESETTLEMENT=WAR CRIME.” On the other, he had written, […]
This is the third and concluding post serializing my comprehensive law review article on the past, present, and future of the crime victims’ rights movement. Earlier I blogged about the movement’s past and present. In this post, I look to the future. The movement seems likely to push for—and achieve—additional measures for asserting and enforcing […]
Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the Trump Administration’s request for emergency relief in Washington v. Trump, one of the cases challenging the Trump Administration’s Executive Order purporting to narrow and redefine birthright citizenship. Specifically, the Trump Administration sought a partial stay of the preliminary injunction against acting on the […]
There have been a lot of posts recently about the Department of Justice’s treatment of the Eric Adams prosecution. I wanted to pass along this additional perspective I received from Professor Ryan Snyder of the University of Missouri, based on his recent article Trading Nonenforcement: If There Was A Quid Pro Quo in the Eric […]
An excellent post, about an organization that I very much admire. An excerpt: Be willing to make common cause with ideological opponents As he contemplated the challenges and pitfalls of advocating for abolition, Frederick Douglass began to see that dialogue with those who saw things differently was critical to achieving his goals. When the more […]
I was traveling yesterday (and I’m continuing the trip today), so I didn’t have the time to put something of my own together on this, but I highly recommend this thread from Adam Steinbaugh (FIRE). The opening paragraph: Wow: The City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an […]
Aside from their millions of customers, it seems everyone loves to hate dollar stores. Critics claim they are akin to a “disease” that reveals the worst of capitalism. Others say dollar stores hurt communities, are a blight to nature, peddle cheap products, and mislead customers into believing their prices are lower than other stores. Of course, […]
Another First Amendment case that the Court will consider this Friday, but on the religion side, is Apache Stronghold v. United States (briefs at the link); here’s the question presented: For centuries, Western Apaches have centered their worship on a small sacred site in Arizona called Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat. Oak Flat is the […]
Say what you will about Defense Secretary/former Fox News guy Pete Hegseth, but dude’s interested in cutting the Pentagon’s budget. Libertarians, this is what we asked for! Hegseth has ordered top officials to draw up a plan to cut $50 billion, or roughly 8 percent, from his department’s budget—8 percent each year for the next […]
The topic for the 13 Annual Harlan InstituteVirtual Supreme Court competition is Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Twenty-two teams of high school students presented oral arguments in the semifinal round. The teams were superb. Truly, these high school students could compete in any law school moot court competition. The Round of 8 will be held […]