Under Arizona’s Constitution, state legislators are immune from traffic tickets during and around legislative sessions. But after several legislators used the law to get away with reckless speeding, a new proposal is looking to change the law. The resolution, HCR2053, would amend the part of the Arizona Constitution that gives lawmakers immunity “from arrest in […]
Yesterday Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas set a trial date (June 23rd) in United State v. Boeing. The case concerns a long-pending federal criminal charge filed against Boeing for conspiring to defraud the FAA. Boeing has reportedly been dragging its heels about pleading guilty. Boeing has […]
A short excerpt from today’s long decision by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil (S.D.N.Y.) in The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC: The Satanic Temple, Inc. … [sued] Newsweek Magazine LLC … [for alleged defamation] in the article titled “Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit” published by Newsweek. After this Court’s [earlier] […]
From Chief Judge Eric Melgren’s opinion yesterday in Schmidt v. Huff (D. Kan.): Gardner Edgerton High School is a part of USD 231 and is located in Johnson County, Kansas. USD 231’s Superintendent is Defendant Brian Huff. Plaintiff Carrie Schmidt is the mother of two students, a sophomore and a senior, who attend Gardner Edgerton […]
You don’t have to be more Catholic than the Pope, as the saying goes. But over the past week, an accidental leak to The Atlantic has transformed journalists into bigger defenders of government secrecy than the government itself. It has created the bizarre situation of journalists asking the White House to keep them away from […]
Are state bar licensing requirements just a barrier to entry that reduces the quantity and increases the cost of legal services? Do they also improve the quality of legal services and protect consumers? Count me among those who is generally skeptical of state occupational licensing requirements. So I read with interest a new study bt […]
The arc of history is weird: Here we are, over 50 years after whatever it was that people call the sexual revolution, long past the anti-porn crusade of the late 20th century, a few decades out from third-wave feminists embracing sex positivity and slut walks, and well into an age of hookup apps, OnlyFans, and […]
President Donald Trump ended federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Even before, companies were having second thoughts. Victoria’s Secret changed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” to “inclusion and belonging.” Now, even woke Disney, despite squandering 270 million shareholder dollars on a moronic new version of Snow White, joined the mob of companies dropping DEI programs. […]
You’ve probably heard about microdosing, which involves taking a small, “sub-perceptual” dose of psychedelics like LSD or psilocybin on a regular basis to ward off depression, anxiety, and chronic pain—or to optimize focus and boost energy. Today’s guests are James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber, authors of the new book Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance. Fadiman, a Stanford-trained research […]
This is not good: The Trump administration is going about federal civil rights investigations rather unusually, per The Washington Post, and appears to be making tip lists of students they seek to deport or otherwise punish. Generally speaking, federal civil rights probes involve inquiries to the colleges in question as to what type of incidents they encountered, how […]