That Time Governor Cuomo Called Me
A few moments ago, I blogged about Governor Cuomo’s press conference. His administration will force numerous Jewish schools in Brooklyn and Queens to close. Cuomo promised, several times, to talk …
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WeChat Ban: I Talk About It with UCLA Law Student (and Chinese Lawyer) Yan Zhao on the LegalTeaHouse Podcast
Check out the episode: Professor Eugene Volokh joined #LegalTeahouse to talk about WeChat users’ First Amendment challenge to the US government’s WeChat ban. @VolokhC https://t.co/LkVCeR4v4x — Legal Teahouse (@LegalTeahouse) October …
Damned if You Do, and Damned if You Don’t (Pay the Ransom)
In this episode, Jamil Jaffer, Bruce Schneier, and I mull over the Treasury announcement that really raises the stakes even higher for ransomware victim. The message from Treasury seems to …
Does Trump’s Weird Hospitalization Jeopardize the Peaceful Transfer of Power?
By the time you read these words, even more employees at the White House will have tested positive for COVID-19 than detailed in the already-lengthy list this morning from Reason‘s …
Poetry Monday!: “Clancy of the Overflow” by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson
(For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; “The Pulley” by George Herbert; “Harmonie du soir” by Charles Baudelaire; and “Dirge Without …
Cop Who Fired 16 Round at Breonna Taylor Said He Only Surmised That He Had Used His Gun
Myles Cosgrove, a Louisville, Kentucky, detective who participated in the fruitless and legally dubious drug raid that killed Breonna Taylor last March, told investigators the incident unfolded so quickly that …
Two Justices Really Want To Revisit Gay Marriage Ruling. Let’s Not Panic, Please.
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky County Clerk who made national news for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is briefly back in the news today because the Supreme …
Is the Right to Armed Self-Defense Obsolete?
Gun control advocates argue that to the extent the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms was meant to ensure people can defend themselves, that concern is anachronistic in …
Michigan Supreme Court Strikes Down Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID-19 Executive Orders
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Friday that a series of executive orders put in place by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to combat COVID-19 were unconstitutional and are now invalid under Michigan …