Thursday Open Thread
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Supreme Court Roundup: The Supreme Court Should Review and Enjoin the Illinois Gun Ban
On May 1, Justice Amy Coney Barrett directed the State of Illinois and the City of Naperville to respond to the emergency application for injunction pending appellate review filed by …
Thomas Massie Says National E-Verify Would Be Bad for American Workers. He’s Right.
House Republicans are rallying around the Secure the Border Act of 2023, a sprawling immigration enforcement bill that will be brought up for a vote later this week. It would …
How worried should we be about “existential” AI risk?
The “godfather of AI” has left Google, offering warnings about the existential risks for humanity of the technology. Mark MacCarthy calls those risks a fantasy, and a debate breaks out between …
From Judge Ana Reyes’ (D.D.C.) Standing Order, a Helpful Guide to the Judge’s Allusions
A judge’s standing orders generally include various instructions to lawyers about procedural matters; here’s an item from p. 4 of the 10-page standing orders from Judge Ana Reyes, newly appointed …
Will There Finally be Some Development on the Land Condemned in Kelo v. City of New London?
The former site of Susette Kelo’s house, May 2014. Photo by Ilya Somin. The recent release of Justice John Paul Stevens’ papers have attracted new attention to the Supreme …
Has Moore v. Harper Become Moot?
Last week, the North Carolina Supreme Court overturned its prior decision redrawing the state’s congressional districts, thereby reversing the decision under review by the U.S. Supreme Court in Moore v. Harper. As …
A Big Issue in Paraguay’s Elections Was…Taiwan?
If you drove through Asunción, Paraguay, before the 2020 pandemic, heading east from the city center you would have come across the Chiang Kai Shek School. It was a rare …
‘Cop City’ Protesters Arrested For Distributing Flyers
Over the past year and a half, a protest movement has erupted in Atlanta to oppose the construction of a police training facility on a city-owned patch of forest in …
It’s OK To Let People Take Risks for Medical Science
Less than two months after President Donald Trump declared the spread of the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 a national emergency on March 13, 2020, I called for human challenge trials …