(NA) Today, is Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the abolition of slavery – the greatest triumph of freedom in American history. In this post, I compile some links to my writings relevant to the holiday and its significance. All are posts published here on the Volokh Conspiracy blog. “Juneteenth and the Universalist Principles of the […]
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning minors from accessing certain kinds of controversial gender-transition treatments. The lawsuit over the case hinged on whether the state’s ban on hormones, puberty blockers, and surgical interventions violated the Equal Protection Clause and required a stricter standard of scrutiny than the one a previous appeals […]
Early on a Wednesday morning in October 2017, FBI agents terrorized three innocent people, including a 7-year-old boy, by breaking into their home in Atlanta. The agents tossed a flash-bang grenade, rousted the two adults from the closet where they were hiding, manhandled and handcuffed one of them, and threatened them with guns before discovering […]
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has launched an internal affairs investigation after officers arrested two livestreamers last Thursday in an apparent retaliatory arrest. LMPD officers arrested TikTok streamer Karlin Martinez and another man in the early hours of Thursday morning for failing to disperse after police declared an unlawful assembly several hours prior […]
On Thursday, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a teenage girl and her parents who are attempting to sue the girl’s school district for alleged disability discrimination. The decision, which did not rule on the merits of the case, is similar to another recent unanimous ruling finding that courts cannot require different discrimination […]
Penny McCarthy is not now, and has never been, Carole Rozak. Yet in March 2024, half a dozen U.S. marshals accosted McCarthy in the front yard of her Phoenix home, insisting that she was Rozak, who was wanted on a warrant for failing to comply with parole conditions after she was released from a Texas […]
One of the more relevant maxims today, particularly in the age of social media, is the fact that saying the same thing over and over again does not make it a reality. There are many people—across the political spectrum—who should internalize this. President Donald Trump is one of them. While speaking at Fort Bragg on […]
On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a civil rights lawsuit against an Oakland, California, coffee shop that allegedly denied service to two Jewish customers. While the suit focuses on allegations of obvious anti-Semitic discrimination, Bondi herself has highlighted the coffee shop’s use of offensive drink names and controversial pro-Palestinian images—both of which are obviously […]
The federal government is seeking to unseal long-classified FBI surveillance records on Martin Luther King Jr. nearly two years before their court-ordered release date (January 2027) and 56 years after his assassination. The King family and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which King founded, have objected to the early release, arguing the files contain […]
During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his allies promised to take swift action to resolve what they termed the “Biden border crisis”—the flow of asylum-seeking migrants across America’s southern border. Whether or not you agree with the premise that the border was a “crisis” under President Joe Biden, there’s pretty compelling evidence that […]