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Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?

Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network.

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Actually, Interviewing Presidential Candidates Is a Good Thing

Plus: RFK Jr. thrown off the N.Y. ballot, Ukraine advances into Russia, and more...

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State May Not Deny Grants to Charity Based on Its Religious Discrimination in Employment, When

the state had allowed other organizations to get grants despite their discriminating based on race and sex—so suggests the Ninth Circuit in a recent decision granting an injunction pending appeal.

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First Amendment Right to Post Videos of One's Disability-Claim Medical Examination

From yesterday's opinion in Ten Injured Workers v. State (Wash. Ct. App.), written by Chief Judge Lori Smith, joined by Judges Stephen Dwyer and Leonard Feldman; I'm not sure the analysis is quite right, but the result seems correct: In 2023, the legislature amended RCW 51.36.070 to allow injured workers…

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County Contractors May Be Required to Report How Many Jews (Among Other Minority Groups) They Employ

From the Wayne County (Mich.) Municipal Code; this is the county that contains Detroit: Sec. 55-14. - Nondiscrimination by county contractors. (1) A contractor shall, as a condition of being awarded a contract, certify in writing that it is in compliance with the provisions of Section 120-192 of the Wayne…

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The Fifth Circuit Shuts Down Geofence Warrants—And Maybe A Lot More

An astonishing ruling, and one that creates splits on two differerent issues.

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Brickbat: Heckler's Veto

An Israeli team was barred from taking part in the European Youth Ultimate Championships in Belgium after government officials in the cities of Ghent and De Pinte objected to the team's presence. Officials in both cities cited threats to protest and disrupt the tournament if it went forward with Israeli…

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The Logic of Voting for a Lesser Evil—and Other Writings on the Morality of Voting

Compendium of some of my work on the rights and wrongs of voting.

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Replacing the 7 Dwarfs in Snow White With CGI Is Not 'Progressive'

Disney said they wanted to "avoid reinforcing stereotypes." The company's solution was to take away roles from a group that has almost no opportunity in Hollywood.

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Tim Walz Is Another Big-Government Liberal

Plus: A listener asks the editors about tariffs and subsidies in the manufacture of electric vehicles.

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Advice to Entering Law Students—2024

Some ideas that might help you make better use of the opportunities available to you in law school.

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60 Percent of Voters Want Kamala Harris To Abandon Bidenonomics

A new survey suggests that neither Harris nor Donald Trump have won over a majority of voters with their respective economic visions.

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Iran Hawks Are Falling for the 'Evil Wizard' Theory of Geopolitics

Assassinating enemy leaders isn’t a silver bullet for solving international conflict.

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Lawsuit Claims Indiana Unconstitutionally Seizes Millions in Cash From FedEx Packages Every Year

The Institute for Justice says Indianapolis police and prosecutors are exploiting one of the biggest FedEx hubs in the U.S. to seize cash for alleged crimes they never explain.

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5 Years of Chicago Police Misconduct Cost Taxpayers Almost $400 Million

Repeat offenders accounted for over 40 percent of the hefty cost.

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"Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism" "in the Tradition of Locke, Kant, and the Founders"

"We need to get better at standing up for the greatest social technology ever devised."

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FDA Declines To Approve MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy As a PTSD Treatment

The FDA, which approved the protocols for the studies it now questions, is asking for an additional Phase 3 clinical trial, which would take years and millions of dollars.

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Texas Might Soon Become the First State To Execute Someone Based on Disputed 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' Evidence

Texas has set an October 17 execution date for Robert Roberson, convicted in 2003 of murdering his 2-year-old daughter.

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New Faculty-Edited Law Journal

Looks like an excellent project, and with top editors: Launching JLEA Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis The Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis solicits papers that offer empirical evidence on questions of importance for the law. In addition to rigorous work permitting causal inference, it is open to qualitative…

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At State Legislatures Summit, Groups Lobby for Changes to Sex Work Laws

"The conversations are overwhelmingly productive and positive," says a representative from Decriminalize Sex Work.

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Is Saying a Fellow Servicemember (Not to Her Face) Is a "Slut" a Crime in the Military?

From U.S. v. Truitt, decided earlier this month by the U.S. Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Kurt Brubaker, joined by Chief Judge Lane McClelland and Judge Herbert Claiborne Pell: In this case, we examine the boundaries of the Coast Guard's punitive order prohibiting sexual…

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Judges' Boycott of Columbia in Clerk Hiring Is Permissible Under Judicial Ethics Rules

From Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Priscilla Richman's June 24 opinion, which was affirmed earlier this month by an Appellate Review Panel of the Judicial Council for the Fifth Circuit (in an order signed by Judge Jennifer Elrod): Complainant, a state prisoner, has filed a complaint against a United States Circuit…

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Empty Threats to Sue Donors of Entity That Allegedly Defamed You Could Be Tortious

American Muckrakers PAC, Inc. v. Boebert (D. Colo. June 9, 2024) (just recently posted on Westlaw) stemmed from the PAC and journalist David Wheeler making various allegations about Rep. Lauren Boebert. Rep. Boebert said they were all lies, threatened to sue Wheeler (which she did), and also "threatened donors to…

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A 'Reformist' Legal Expert Calls for a Surveillance State

A lawyer who should know better wants to ignore the history of snooping cops to fight guns and crime.

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