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First stop for reporters: the Grutter and Gratz files.

The question turns on whether the politician's web page is seen as the politician's own speech as a citizen, or as a government page.

I was asked to give some brief remarks on the affirmative action cases at a panel discussion at the University of Baltimore today. I typed up some notes, and I thought they were worth sharing: I think at least seven Justices, including Kagan on the left, converged on the notion…

In Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), Justice O'Connor wrote, "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary." I never took this sentence--or really anything Justice O'Connor wrote--very seriously. And even if she was serious about that point, no one who joined her…

"A lot of execs around the league wonder whether SGA is the best player on the market, given the fact he’s signed to a five-year max and OKC isn’t winning anytime soon."

Backpackers are trickling back into WA, but farmers say there are not enough to ease dire worker shortages.

Small populations and strong conservative values often mean queer people in small towns face more scrutiny than their metropolitan counterparts. Advocates like Tiger Bird want services tailored towards the LGBTQIA+ community.

From Hans Bader (Liberty Unyielding): The Minneapolis Public Schools have adopted a race-based layoff provision that violates the Constitution and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. "A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before "educators of color" in the event Minneapolis…

As I mentioned yesterday, ten years ago I wrote a descriptive and analytical law review article called Private Employees' Speech and Political Activity: Statutory Protection Against Employer Retaliation, which aimed to catalog these often-little-known statutes. This year, I'm returning to the subject, trying to analyze the strongest arguments for and…