A short excerpt from today’s long decision by Judge Lee Rosenthal (S.D. Tex.) in Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council v. Mahomes: The Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council (“QEC”), a student organization at A&M’s College Station flagship campus has, for each of the last five years, sponsored a drag show cleverly named “Draggieland” on campus. It […]
I agree with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that cellphones probably don’t belong in classrooms. They are likely to distract from learning, to impede socialization, or both. But Kennedy has a different concern. He recently told Fox & Friends that he’s worried the phones will case “neurological damage to kids” and “even […]
If you thought Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ clash with Elon Musk was an isolated incident, you were mistaken. Moraes has now declared a new enemy—Chris Pavlovski, CEO of the video platform Rumble. On Friday, February 20, history repeated itself when Moraes ordered the suspension of yet another social media platform in […]
Does originalism need a moral defense? In his newly published Vaughan Lecture, Joel Alicea argues that it does: Justifying a constitutional methodology requires arguing that judges ought to employ that methodology, which requires making a moral argument that the methodology is better than its competitors. And we can only know the comparative moral soundness of […]
In a recent closed-door meeting with the CEOs of several major food companies—including PepsiCo, General Mills, Smucker’s, Kraft Heinz, and Kellogg’s—Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. implored the industry to eliminate artificial food dyes from their products. The secretary “expressed the strong desire and urgent priority of the administration to remove” artificial […]
From a complaint brought Thursday before the Norwegian Data Protection Authority: [T]he complainant asked ChatGPT the question “Who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?”. To this, ChatGPT replied the following: Arve Hjalmar Holmen is a Norwegian individual who gained attention due to a tragic event. He was the father of two young boys, aged 7 and 10, […]
The Supreme Court did not grant certiorari in any cases this morning, but Justices Alito and Gorsuch both suggested it may be time to grant a case to reconsider aspects of the Court’s Confrontation Clause jurisprudence, Justice Scalia’s opinion for a unanimous Court in Crawford v. Washington in particular. Both Justices Alito and Gorsuch issued separate […]
A short excerpt from Friday’s 22,000-word North Carolina Supreme Court opinion in Happel v. Guilford County Bd. of Ed. (written by Chief Justice Paul Newby): This case concerns a fourteen-year-old boy’s attempt to seek a legal remedy after his school’s chosen medical provider injected him with a COVID-19 vaccine against his and his mother’s wishes…. […]
From Berthold v. Secretary of Health & Human Services, decided by Court of Federal Claims Special Master Brian H. Corcoran on Feb. 11 but just posted on Westlaw: Petitioner alleges that she suffered a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration resulting from an influenza vaccine received on September 20, 2021 [and therefore filed for compensation […]
3/24/2009: Citizens United v. FEC argued for the first time. The post Today in Supreme Court Histor Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, and thought-provoking commentary. Championing the principles of individual freedom, limited government, and free markets, the site offers […]