Brickbat: Going Too Fast
Pennsylvania state police have charged Seward Police Chief Robert Baldwin Jr. with with obstruction of justice, hindering apprehension, and official oppression for coercing sex from a woman he’d stopped for …
Reason
Current House of Representatives Balance 222 D to 209 R, 4 Races Still Not Called
FiveThirtyEight.com has the latest. (Note that the 222 D to 208 R count in the right-hand margin excludes the Louisiana runoff, which will be between two Republicans.) ReasonFounded in 1968, …
Can Judges Coordinate Parallel Litigation?
Professor Bert Huang published a new article in the Texas Law Review, title Coordinating Injunctions. He proposes a solution to the problem of federal judges issuing conflicting injunctions: When faced with …
Why the Hell Don’t We Have Enough Damned COVID-19 Tests After 8 Months of the Pandemic?
The COVID-19 testing situation in the United States after eight months of the pandemic is déjà vu all over again. As cases surge, Americans around the country are once more …
Libel Case Can’t Be Litigated with Alleged Libel Sealed
In Manhattan Telecommunications Corp. [MetTel] v. Granite Telecommunications, LLC, MetTel sued its competitor Granite for allegedly libeling MetTel in statements to customers; but the allegedly libelous statements were redacted from …
Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry Outing Crystallizes the Arrogance of COVID-19 Dictators
On November 6, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) sat down for a fancy dinner party at the tony Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry, the state was in the …
Alaskans Approve Shift to Ranked-Choice Voting
Alaska will be joining Maine in allowing its voters to rank candidates for office rather than having to settle for just one. The full numbers are finally in for Alaska …
Worried About Money in Politics? The 2020 Election Showed Political Cash Can’t Buy Electoral Victory.
Democrats across the country opened their wallets and poured huge amounts of money into the race for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R–Ky.) seat in an effort to flip control …
Coronavirus Curfews Are Trending Again, Despite Total Lack of Evidence They Help
Coronaviruses don’t get more deadly or dangerous after dark. Yet across the country, leaders are imposing new curfews on their residents and businesses in the name of stopping COVID-19. Those …
Guns and Juveniles
From K.C.G. v. State, decided Monday by the Indiana Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Slaughter: Under Indiana law, only juvenile courts have power to adjudicate a child a …