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. […]
An excerpt from the long Roe v. Critchfield, decided last week by Ninth Circuit Judge Morgan Christen, joined by Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw and Mark J. Bennett: Before the summer of 2023, public school districts in Idaho were free to adopt their own policies regarding students’ access to [multi-occupancy] restrooms, locker rooms, and shower rooms. […]
A few months after Georgia mother Brittany Patterson was arrested for not knowing that her son, age 10, had walked to the store on his own, the state passed a Reasonable Childhood Independence law. It now goes to the governor for signing. The bill clarifies that “neglect” is only when you put your child in […]