| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.08.2026 | Federal Court Rules That Blocking Speech Is Protected By The First Amendment, But Recommending It Isn’t | This ruling came out a week and a half ago at this point and I’ve been so annoyed with it that I kept putting off writing about it, but it’s so bad that it requires a discussion. A federal district court in San Jose denied motions from a bu... |
| 11.08.2026 | FTC Targets Anthropic for AI Bias, Shields Grok Despite Musk’s Admitted Interventions | By Terrence Hill
Published: Aug 11 2026, 10:50 AM EDT
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| 07.08.2026 | Brendan Carr’s FCC Rewrites Media Ownership Law Only Congress Can Actually Change | There are many ways to describe the Trump Era, but the executive branch’s conviction that it can simply ignore the legislative branch’s entire existence has become something close to a governing principle. From impounding funds designated b... |
| 30.07.2026 | The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban | There’s been a bunch of news this week regarding Minnesota’s new law that purports to prohibit “nudification” technology, and the fact that xAI has sued to have the law blocked as unconstitutional. A few things need to be said upfront, beca... |
| 05.07.2026 | In rebuke to Trump, Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, emphasizing the promise of equality in the Declaration of Independence (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Morgan Marietta
The Supreme Court on June 30, 2026, declared that universal birthright citizenship is protected by the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, meaning ... |
| 01.07.2026 | The Supreme Court Upholds The Constitution. Barely. | Look, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions count just as much as 9-0 ones, and a 5-4 decision getting it right is still a win, but for a number of reasons, the 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara, regarding the issue of birthright citizenship is terrif... |
| 30.06.2026 | Supreme Court strikes down limits on political parties’ campaign spending, in win for GOP | The Supreme Court struck down limits on the amount that political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for office.
Republicans argued the restrictions violated the First Amendment.
The 6-3 ruling overturns coordinated-expenditu... |
| 29.06.2026 | The Supreme Court nears the end of its term with momentous cases about Trump’s power to be decided | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MARK SHERMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is wrapping up a term that has focused on President Donald Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power.
Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright... |
| 13.05.2026 | FOR 30 YEARS, HENRY LATIMER CENTER HAS CHAMPIONED PROFESSIONALISM AND CIVILITY | For 30 years, The Florida Bar’s Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism has worked to answer a deceptively simple question: What does it mean to be a professional lawyer?
The answer has evolved alongside the profession itself — through ris... |
| 13.05.2026 | Trump Already Has His ‘Get Out Of Jail Free’ Card. Now He Wants A ‘Get Out Of IRS Audits’ Card | In a ruling that will clearly be remembered as one of the worst in the history of the Supreme Court, two years ago, the court gave Donald Trump a get out of jail free card, which he appears to be trying to take full advantage of with all th... |
| 08.05.2026 | Once Again, Trump Looks To Get Out Of Paying E. Jean Carroll By Having The DOJ Substitute In For Himself | Not this again. For many years now there have been a series of ongoing lawsuits between E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, involving a variety of issues, but mainly whether or not he sexually assaulted her back in the 1990s and, separately, ... |
| 03.05.2026 | Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling makes it harder to protect minority voting power (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Sam D. Hayes
In a major ruling that would permit weakening the voting power of minorities in the United States, the Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, struck down a Black-majority district in Loui... |
| 27.04.2026 | Judge Just Noticed The Obvious Problem With Trump Suing His Own IRS For $10 Billion | One of the more frustrating things about the case in which Donald Trump sued the IRS that he runs, demanding $10 billion over nothing, was that it seemed like it might just work, and there might be nothing that could be done to stop it. But... |
| 20.04.2026 | Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for $250 million over alcohol abuse claims | FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick in federal court in Washington, alleging defamation in an article that reported he has abused alcohol.
The civil lawsuit seeks damages of $250 million.
Th... |
| 26.03.2026 | America’s Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warrior, Brendan Carr, Gets A Letter Documenting His First Amendment Violations | For years, certain folks on the left kept insisting they wanted to bring back the Fairness Doctrine — the old FCC policy that required broadcasters to present “both sides” of controversial issues. Many of us in the tech policy world kept ex... |
| 25.03.2026 | Judge Rejects Government’s Weak Attempt To Memory-Hole DOGE Deposition Videos | Last week we covered how the government successfully convinced Judge Colleen McMahon to order the plaintiffs in the DOGE/National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lawsuit to “claw back” the viral deposition videos they had posted to YouTu... |
| 20.03.2026 | Fifth Circuit: Actually, Putting The Ten Commandments In Schools Is Probably Fine | Last June, the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court upheld a lower court’s ruling declaring a Louisiana law mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools to be a violation of the Constitution.
This decision made immediate sense, gi... |
| 19.03.2026 | States’ lawsuit argues Trump’s college data mandate threatens student privacy | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org
A coalition of mostly Democratic-led states is suing the Trump administration over a new federal requirement that would force colleges to report detailed admission... |
| 07.03.2026 | Should drug companies be advertising to consumers? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Paula Span, KFF Health News
Tamar Abrams had a lousy couple of years in 2022 and ’23. Both her parents died; a relationship ended; she retired from communications consulting. She moved from Arli... |
| 06.02.2026 | Former Federal Judge: ICE’s Home Raiding Policy Violates A Basic Constitutional Right | This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents continued to use aggressive and sometimes violent methods to make arrests ... |
| 31.01.2026 | Federal Law Enforcement Reforms: A Mandate for Public Safety and Accountability | Federal law enforcement faces intense scrutiny. Recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis spark urgent policy reform calls. Agencies like ICE operate under lax use-of-force rules, especially regarding moving vehicles. Questionable arrest tactic... |
| 28.01.2026 | There’s A Reason Many Police Dept’s Ban Shooting At Moving Vehicles: It Saves Lives Without Putting Officers In Greater Danger | Minneapolis is once again the focus of debates about violence involving law enforcement after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, in her car.
The incident quickly prompted ... |
| 23.01.2026 | A Year In, And It’s Time To Recognize: The Oval Office Is Empty | It will be to the everlasting shame of all Americans that impeachment has not yet been accomplished to formally remove Trump from office. Not in his previous term, and not this one, at least not so far. In fact, this term it has hardly even... |
| 24.12.2025 | 10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification | It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various requirements to verify your age before you can crea... |
| 19.11.2025 | Texas GOP Had A Legal Path To Gerrymander. Trump’s DOJ Ordered Them To Take The Blatantly Illegal Path Instead | Let’s say, hypothetically, you want to gerrymander some congressional districts to help your party win more seats. Here are a couple of options:
Which do you choose? If you said “obviously option 1,” congratulations, you understand the law ... |
| 29.10.2025 | The Kavanaugh Stop’s Legacy: 50 Days, 170+ Detained Citizens, Zero Answers | It was just last month that Brett Kavanaugh gave his explanation for why it was perfectly okay for Homeland Security goons to profile brown people and detain them based on nothing more than the color of their skin. While his cowardly collea... |
| 06.10.2025 | The Supreme Court begins a term that will examine Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power | By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday began a new term that will have a sharp focus on President Donald Trump’s robust assertion of executive power.
Pivotal cases on voting an... |
| 02.10.2025 | Trump Publishes Enemies List To White House Website, And It’s Just Democrats Speaking The Truth | God, what I wouldn’t give for another Nixon administration. Sure, it was corrupt and built from the ground up to punish the opposing party for being the opposing party. But that administration was limited and restrained by things like compe... |
| 25.09.2025 | Supreme Court Uses Shadow Docket To Let Trump Fire FTC Commissioner While Pretending They Haven’t Already Decided The Case | The Supreme Court pulled off another shadow docket masterpiece this week, granting Trump’s request to keep FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter fired while simultaneously pretending they haven’t already made up their minds about whether... |
| 16.09.2025 | Pam Bondi Threatens To Prosecute Hate Speech, Which Charlie Kirk Himself (Rightly) Said Was Protected Speech | Attorney General Pam Bondi just provided a masterclass in how to completely misunderstand the First Amendment while threatening to abuse government power to silence critics. In response to online criticism of Charlie Kirk following his assa... |
| 15.09.2025 | The FTC’s Settlement With Aylo: This Isn’t Really About Fighting CSAM And Revenge Porn | This is part two of a two-part series about the recent settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Utah Consumer Protection Division (CPD), and Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub. The order (which has now been approved by a ... |
| 09.09.2025 | DC Circuit Makes Rookie Mistake In Actually Following Binding Precedent In A Case Involving Donald Trump Firing People | The DC Circuit Court of Appeals did something remarkable last week—they followed binding Supreme Court precedent. In 2025. Involving Trump. Which, predictably, got them immediately overruled by the Supreme Court just days later.
In a 2-1 de... |
| 25.07.2025 | The Good, The Bad, And The Incredibly Stupid In Trump’s AI Action Plan | We’ve spent years documenting the challenges of crafting sensible AI policy, from Biden’s misguided plan, to various state-level attempts at regulation. Now Trump’s AI Action Plan has landed, offering a striking example of how even potentia... |
| 24.07.2025 | Supreme Court To Lower Courts: Ignore Actual Binding Precedent, Follow Our Unexplained Shadow Docket Vibes Instead | The Supreme Court’s shadow docket has become a lawless mess. The justices are issuing extremely consequential rulings with either no explanation at all, or with barely a paragraph of reasoning. No full briefing. No oral arguments. Just vibe... |
| 22.07.2025 | Judge Reinstates Fired FTC Commissioner While Everyone (Including The Judge) Knows The Supreme Court Will Overturn | Judge Loren AliKhan knows exactly how this story ends, but she’s going to make the Supreme Court write the final chapter themselves. Her ruling reinstating illegally fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter reads like judicial theater... |
| 18.07.2025 | Judge restores Democrat to Federal Trade Commission, ruling her firing by Trump was illegal | The justices are currently weighing an emergency appeal from the administration to oust three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Trump fired them in May, but a federal judge restored them to their positions a mont... |
| 28.06.2025 | The Supreme Court's New Frontier: Navigating the Digital Age and the First Amendment | The Supreme Court has stepped into uncharted territory, wielding its gavel like a sword. In a recent ruling, the Court has reshaped the landscape of online speech, sending shockwaves through the First Amendment's protections. The decision i... |
| 27.06.2025 | The Conservatives On The Supreme Court Are So Scared Of Nudity, They’ll Throw Out The First Amendment | The Supreme Court this morning took a chainsaw to the First Amendment on the internet, and the impact is going to be felt for decades going forward. In the FSC v. Paxton case, the Court upheld the very problematic 5th Circuit ruling that ag... |
| 18.06.2025 | SCOTUS Simply Ignores Precedent, Rather Than Overruling It, In Allowing Trump To Fire Officials Congress Deemed Independent | What may be one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most important and far-reaching rulings in decades dropped in late May 2025 in an order that probably didn’t get a second – or even first – glance from most Americans.
But this not-quite-two-page ... |
| 09.05.2025 | Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter dies at 85 | Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the court said. He was 85 years old.
Souter was nominated in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush. He was succeeded after retiring in 2009 by Justice Sonia... |
| 06.05.2025 | Trump’s Aggressive Actions Against Free Speech Speak A Lot Louder Than His Words Defending It | Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure campaign mounted on the school by the president and his Cabinet to force viewpoint diversity on campus violated t... |
| 05.05.2025 | America’s long history of ‘checks and balances’ is being tested by Trump like rarely before | Here’s a look at checks and balances and previous tests across U.S. history. A fight over Jefferson ignoring Adams’ appointments
The foundational checks-and-balances fight: President John Adams’ made last-minute appointments before he left ... |
| 15.04.2025 | The Renewable Energy Tug-of-War: Balancing Demand, Policy, and Innovation | The landscape of renewable energy in the United States is shifting. A perfect storm is brewing, fueled by soaring demand, wavering subsidies, and the looming shadow of tariffs. The stakes are high, and the players are scrambling to adapt. E... |
| 15.04.2025 | With 3-0 GOP Majority And All Democrats Fired, The FTC Is Now A Total Trump Puppet Agency Pretending To Care About ‘Antitrust Reform’ | Back in March Trump illegally fired the Federal Trade Commission’s two Democratic Commissioners. With a captured Supreme Court and a 3-2 agency majority, Trumpism could have already done whatever it wanted at the FTC, so firing the two Demo... |
| 14.04.2025 | How the US constitution allowed Trump to wreak havoc on the economy | A trip through America’s constitution – and an explanation of how it got us to Trump – teaches us to beware the pull of executive power, writes Harrison Griffiths
With the stroke of a pen, President Trump imposed one of the largest tax rise... |
| 20.03.2025 | Trump’s FTC Firings: A Power Play with Market Implications | In a move that has sent shockwaves through Washington and Wall Street alike, President Donald Trump has fired two Democratic commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This action raises questions about the independence of regul... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Shifting Sands of Power: Political Turbulence in America | In the realm of American politics, the winds of change blow fiercely. Recent events have stirred the pot, revealing the intricate dance of power, accountability, and the quest for transparency. The recent promotions of IRS agents who invest... |
| 19.03.2025 | Trump Illegally Purges FTC’s Democratic Commissioners, Gutting What’s Left Of Agency Independence | In an unprecedented move that flatly violates federal law, Donald Trump on Tuesday fired both Democratic commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission — Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. The illegal purge represents a direct assa... |
| 19.03.2025 | FTC commissioner fired by Trump says her ouster should concern markets | One of the two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission whom President Donald Trump abruptly fired this week warned that her ouster could erode market stability.
“If I can be fired, I don’t know why Jerome Powell can’t be fi... |
| 06.03.2025 | The Battle Lines of American Law: Religion and Gun Control | In the United States, the landscape of law is a battlefield. On one side, the push for religious expression in public schools. On the other, the quest for tighter gun control. Both issues ignite fierce debates, drawing lines in the sand. Ea... |
| 04.03.2025 | The Government Tug-of-War: A Nation at a Crossroads | The United States stands at a pivotal moment. The tug-of-war between government and free-market forces has never been more pronounced. The Trump administration’s recent actions signal a drastic shift. The aim? To shrink the government to a ... |
| 04.03.2025 | National Politics | Eyeing a friendly Supreme Court, Republicans push for the Ten Commandments in schools | Supportive state legislators say the commandments are a historical example of law and not purely religious in nature. But while there are commandments that prohibit murder and stealing, some declare that there are no other gods above God, a... |
| 02.03.2025 | Commentary | Opinion: Sidney Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain: Trump administration sets out to create an America without a meaningful government | By Sidney Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain
The U.S. government is attempting to dismantle itself.
President Donald Trump has directed the executive branch to “significantly reduce the size of government.” That includes deep cuts in federal fund... |
| 20.02.2025 | National Politics | What is Humphrey’s Executor? A look at the 90-year-old Supreme Court decision Trump is targeting | The current Supreme Court, with a conservative majority that includes three justices nominated by Trump, has at times agreed.Who was Humphrey and what’s an executor?
Born during the Civil War, William Humphrey became a Republican member of ... |
| 16.02.2025 | Commentary | Opinion: Maya Sen: Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks | By Maya Sen
State governments, community groups, advocacy nonprofits and regular Americans have filed a large and growing number of federal lawsuits opposing President Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders and policy statements. Some o... |
| 13.02.2025 | The Battle for Rights and Freedoms: A Tale of Two Legal Fronts | In the heart of America, two legal battles unfold, each a reflection of the nation’s evolving identity. One centers on the rights of transgender youth, while the other grapples with the boundaries of free speech. Both cases are emblematic o... |
| 13.02.2025 | Editorials | Editorial: Ignoring judicial orders cannot be allowed | We get the fatigue of people who have been hearing and reading about the threat Trump poses to democracy and the U.S. system of government for years; it’s never not been true, but we can understand that it can become background noise or see... |
| 13.02.2025 | Mississippi’s Top Court Says Rights Violations Are OK If Cops Don’t Know How To Do Their Jobs | There are things you can and can’t do when setting up checkpoints. If it’s DUI enforcement, you can talk to drivers and see if they seem intoxicated. If it’s near a border, you can stop every vehicle to search for undocumented immigrants or... |
| 12.02.2025 | Steve Wynn Asks Supreme Court To Gut Key First Amendment Standard | Billionaires are already deleting parts of our government, as well as various safety mechanisms on the internet that sought to minimize hate and abuse. Do we also want them to be able to rewrite our understanding of the First Amendment?
Ste... |
| 03.02.2025 | Politics | Facing “hostile” national abortion landscape, Colorado Democrats plan bills to strengthen state laws | Some states have targeted the law’s mandated coverage of emergency abortions with their own state-level abortion bans.
The U.S. Supreme Court narrowly rejected a case from Idaho last summer challenging the federal protections. Project 2025,... |
| 31.01.2025 | Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous | Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and the stakes are exponentially higher. When reviewing... |
| 08.01.2025 | The Hypocrisy of Free Speech: A Tale of Two Standards | In the world of politics, hypocrisy is as common as rain in April. It seeps into the fabric of discourse, staining the ideals of free speech and justice. Recently, two articles shed light on this troubling trend, revealing a double standard... |
| 07.01.2025 | The Jawboning Double Standard: Brendan Carr’s Threats Are Way Worse Than What Biden Was Accused Of | I know it’s no surprise that the modern MAGA world is incredibly hypocritical. They speak of free speech while making every effort to suppress speech they dislike. But the latest example of this hypocrisy is glaring. Those who screamed to h... |
| 03.01.2025 | Food Tracking App To Delete Users’ Previously Recorded Meals After Being Sued By Food Data Company | For the past few years, I’ve used Cronometer as a nutrition app. It’s pretty good for tracking food, exercise, and much more. I appreciate that it has very detailed nutritional data, and even when it doesn’t, I’m able to upload nutritional ... |
| 23.12.2024 | Bridging the Gap: The Urgent Need for Specialized Care in Pregnancy-Related Nausea | Pregnancy is often painted as a beautiful journey. Yet, for many women, it’s a battleground. Morning sickness, a term that belies its severity, can morph into a relentless foe. Severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) and hyperemesis g... |
| 22.12.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Anne Whitesell: Colorado now has liberal abortion laws, but measures to restrict access have a long history | By Anne Whitesell
With the passage of Amendment 79 in November 2024, Colorado voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution. The amendment solidifies the state’s status as one of the most liberal in the country on the iss... |
| 19.12.2024 | SCOTUS Turns TikTok Ban Case Into TikTok-Style Short Attention Span Theater | TikTok is famous for its short attention span theater aspect of just watching some very short videos, without often having the time to go all that deep. The Supreme Court, however, is more known for being slow and methodical. However, the S... |
| 18.11.2024 | National Politics | Trump’s criminal conviction won’t stop him from getting security clearance as president | This dilemma is one that I, as a law professor who teaches and writes about secrecy and who earlier in my career handled classified information while working for the U.S. intelligence community and a U.S. Senate committee, would never have ... |
| 15.11.2024 | The Paradox of Free Speech and Market Freedom: A Critical Look at Marc Andreessen's Hypocrisy | In the realm of technology and finance, few names resonate as strongly as Marc Andreessen. A venture capitalist and board member of Meta, Andreessen has positioned himself as a champion of free markets and free speech. However, recent state... |
| 14.11.2024 | You Don’t Believe In Free Markets And Free Speech If You’re Demanding Criminal Charges Against People For Their Free Market, Free Speech Decisions | Marc Andreessen, the influential venture capitalist, is exhibiting a startling disconnect between his stated beliefs in free markets and free speech, and his recent authoritarian threats against those who disagree with him.
In recent statem... |
| 14.11.2024 | Ironclad launches Jurist, an AI-powered legal assistant for contract work
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One click below supports our mission to provide... | Ironclad Inc., a digital contract management startup, today announced the launch of its conversational artificial intelligence legal assistant named Jurist that will work with professionals to draft contracts and understand the law.
Michel ... |
| 02.10.2024 | On Fires, Theaters, And Censorship: Neither Vice Presidential Candidate Understands Free Speech | Well, that was quite the end to last night’s Vice Presidential debate. While the overall debate was pretty boring (though hilarious when JD Vance flipped out and whined that the moderators had promised not to fact check him), towards the ve... |
| 16.09.2024 | Heritage Foundation Admits KOSA Will Be Useful For Removing Pro-Abortion Content… If Trump Wins | It’s no secret that Trump-administration-in-waiting at the Heritage Foundation supports KOSA because it thinks it will be useful in achieving some of the most extreme goals of Project 2025, a project Heritage created. Last year they came ou... |
| 11.09.2024 | Utah’s ‘Protect The Kids Online!’ Law Rejected By Court | Over the last few years, politicians in Utah have been itching to pass terrible internet legislation. Some of you may forget that in the earlier part of the century, Utah became somewhat famous for passing absolutely terrible internet laws ... |
| 21.08.2024 | National Politics | Fact-checking Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention | “In dollar terms, the biggest winners would be those in the top 0.1 percent of income, who make nearly $5 million or more,” Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, wrote on Aug. 2. “They’d get an average tax cut of nearly... |
| 18.08.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Kate Andrias: Amazon, SpaceX and others are arguing labor agency is unconstitutional
By Kate Andrias | By Kate Andrias
Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have all responded to allegations that they have violated labor laws with the same bold argument. The National Labor Relations Board, they assert in several ongoing legal proceeding... |
| 13.08.2024 | The Misinformation Maelstrom: Navigating the Storm of Disinformation and Free Speech | In the digital age, misinformation spreads like wildfire. Social media platforms are the kindling, and figures like Elon Musk are the sparks. The recent riots in the UK, ignited by false claims about asylum seekers, illustrate the chaos tha... |
| 12.08.2024 | Fire In A Crowded Newspaper: Misinforming Readers About Free Speech Isn’t Helping | It seems to be a rather common phenomenon, but various major newspaper opinion columnists love opining on the First Amendment and free speech without ever bothering to, you know, understand them.
Edward Luce, a long-term journalist and comm... |
| 27.07.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Harry Litman: Aileen Cannon’s ruling isn’t just legally flawed. It has nothing to do with the law. | It is an illustration of the gulf between the normal assumptions of judicial propriety and Cannon’s in-the-tank oversight of the case that it took so many, including me, so long to fully accept the only hypothesis that is consistent with he... |
| 16.07.2024 | RIAA’s Copyright Suit Against Verizon Just The Latest Move By The RIAA To Kick People Off The Internet | The RIAA just won’t quit in attacking users on the internet and trying to get them banned from using the internet entirely. The latest news is that all the major record labels have sued Verizon for not kicking users the RIAA accuses (but ha... |
| 09.07.2024 | The Erosion of the Supreme Court's Legitimacy: A Precarious Path to Political Violence | The Supreme Court, a cornerstone of American democracy, is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy, with public support plummeting to historic lows. This troubling trend has sparked a national dialogue on the court's authority and credibili... |
| 09.07.2024 | Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Access Rights, Setting a Precedent for Reproductive Freedom | In a landmark decision, the Kansas Supreme Court recently struck down two anti-abortion laws, bolstering the state's commitment to protecting abortion access. The rulings, issued in two separate cases, underscore the court's stance that the... |
| 08.07.2024 | Didn’t We Already Do This? Twenty Years After Supreme Court Rejected Age Verification Law, It Takes Up New Case | Just when you thought the internet was safe from the meddling minds of the Supreme Court, the Justices have decided to take another crack at reviewing whether or not a new set of state regulations of the internet violates the First Amendmen... |
| 07.07.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Matthew Hall and Joseph Daniel Ura: Loss of Supreme Court legitimacy can lead to political violence
By Matthew Hall and Joseph Daniel Ura | By Matthew Hall and Joseph Daniel Ura
While the Fourth of July is focused on revelry, the holiday actually commemorates a solemn moment in the country’s history, when it declared independence from the colonial power Great Britain. The insti... |
| 03.07.2024 | Tim Wu Is Out Of Control | I guess I should start this out by noting that I like Tim Wu quite a bit, and always felt like I learned something in the past when I spoke with him. He was even one of the people who reviewed and provided feedback on my big “protocols, not... |
| 01.07.2024 | In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says ‘Try Again’ – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections | Today, the Supreme Court made it pretty clear that websites have First Amendment rights to do content moderation as they see fit, but decided to send the cases challenging laws in Florida and Texas back to the lower courts to be litigated p... |
| 24.06.2024 | Report – Two Years After Dobbs: An Analysis of State Laws to Protect Reproductive Healthcare Information from Interstate Investigations and Prosecutions | CDT report, entitled “Two Years After Dobbs: An Analysis of State Laws to Protect Reproductive Healthcare Information from Interstate Investigations and Prosecutions.” White document on a grey background.
Authored by CDT Interns Irene Kim a... |
| 22.06.2024 | Surgeon General's Social Media Warning Sparks Controversy and Israel's Humanitarian Crisis Deepens in Gaza | Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's recent call for Congress to mandate warnings on social media has sparked a heated debate among experts and the public alike. Murthy's proposal, which aims to address the potential harm social media can have on... |
| 21.06.2024 | The Supreme Court's Gun Decision Is Not a Victory for Women | This piece was first published in Slate on 6/21/24.
The U.S. Supreme Court today broke from its recent embrace of gun rights, leaving in place a federal criminal law that makes it a felony for anyone subject to a civil domestic violence res... |
| 18.06.2024 | Newbern, Alabama, election debacle highlights bigger, fundamental issues | Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series. Read part 1 here.
Loretta, a lifelong resident of Newbern, Alabama, likes to walk in the morning.
“It’s already getting hot,” she said as she finished up her daily ritual. It was ... |
| 18.06.2024 | Warning: Believing The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning May Be Hazardous To Teens’ Health | You may have heard that yesterday the Surgeon General of the US, Vivek Murthy, announced that Congress should mandate “Surgeon General warnings” on social media, saying that it is harmful to kids. Over at the Daily Beast I went into great d... |
| 17.06.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: The Supreme Court isn’t above other branches | That should change. The Constitution created the three branches of government as co-equal, keeping one another in check. It did not put the Supreme Court above everything else, untouchable by either electoral will or scrutiny from other bra... |
| 14.06.2024 | Alabama group continues fight to help women obtain reproductive care | Jenice Fountain could not believe what she was hearing.
Was that Steve Marshall, the attorney general of Alabama, on talk radio, threatening to go after her tiny organization, which is dedicated to supporting pregnant Alabamians seeking leg... |
| 14.06.2024 | The Supreme Court Continues To Struggle With How To Apply The First Amendment In Intellectual Property Cases | For not the first time, the Supreme Court seems to regard the First Amendment as secondary when it comes to cases involving some form of intellectual property. This has happened all too frequently. Perhaps most famously, in Eldred v. Ashcro... |
| 30.05.2024 | Trump’s Movie Meltdown: A Teachable Moment For Free Speech | Donald Trump getting mad at an unflattering portrayal of himself in a movie isn’t that interesting. But how that anger may make people rethink laws against AI recreating real people and the Citizens United case, highlights how gut reactions... |
| 30.05.2024 | Gov. Jared Polis signs legislation to protect Colorado’s wetlands and streams, provide regulatory certainty for businesses and individuals | DENVER (May 30, 2024): Gov. Jared Polis has signed into law a bipartisan piece of legislation that will protect Colorado’s wetlands and streams — filling a regulatory gap created by a recent Supreme Court decision — and provide individuals ... |
| 23.05.2024 | Supreme Court rules against Coinbase in dogecoin case, handing consumers a win | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an argument by Coinbase over a case involving the cryptocurrency exchange's 2021 dogecoin sweepstakes that prompted a lawsuit.
Why it matters: The ruling ma... |
| 17.05.2024 | 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, Colorado schools remain segregated | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The landmark Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision turned 70 Friday, but Colorado schools were far more impacted by another federal case, Keyes v. School District No. 1.
Why it matters: D... |
| 15.05.2024 | School desegregation, 2.0 | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Startup nonprofit Brown's Promise wants to reignite a national conversation about school desegregation, using litigation and other means to redraw district lines and bring about equitable school fundi... |
| 14.05.2024 | Former FCC Chair Pai Stumbles Over First Amendment, And Text Of The Law, In Supporting TikTok Ban | Former FCC Chair Ajit Pai seems to have forgotten the First Amendment in his rush to support the TikTok ban. In a recent Fox Business interview, Pai stumbled through a series of perplexing statements, leaving us wondering if he’s ever actua... |
