Anti-Riot Act Partly Upheld, Partly Struck Down
Yesterday’s Fourth Circuit decision in U.S. v. Miselis, written by Judge Robert King and joined by Judges Albert Diaz and Allison Jones Rushing considered a facial First Amendment challenge to the …
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 25, 1998
8/25/1998: Justice Lewis Powell dies. Justice Lewis Powell ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, politics, …
Brickbat: No Shirt, No Service
Officials with California’s East Side Union High School District have placed a teacher on leave after he was seen teaching a virtual math class while not wearing a shirt, a …
The RNC Can’t Figure Out Where It Stands on Criminal Justice Reform
Speakers at the first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention tried to navigate two competing messages on the criminal justice system. One was that Joe Biden was an architect …
The RNC Shouldn’t Be Bragging About the Paycheck Protection Program
“A few months ago, like so many businesses, we got the crushing news [that] a large event we were serving was canceled because of the virus,” Tanya Weinreis, owner of …
The Key to Zoom University: More Polling, Less Lecturing.
In years past, I would usually start the class with a single multiple choice or true/false question. Students would enter their answers using the iClicker app. And after that initial …
More in the Saga of the Escaped Cat, Here Meowing About “a Russian/Israeli Oligarch”
In today’s decision by Judge Ronnie Abrams (S.D.N.Y.) in Rollag v. Cowen Inc., plaintiff sued defendants on July 6, 2020 for violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act and …
Political Conventions Should Be NC-17
It’s the first day of the Republican National Convention, which means that things are already getting pear-shaped. In other words, it’s a fitting follow-up to what the Democrats did (and …
Monday Bear Blogging—Covid-19 Edition
Maine’s annual bear hunting season begins next week, only with a twist. According to an Associated Press report in Greenwire, the state is encouraging hunters to take extra precautions due …
Do Legal Restrictions Account for the Downward Trend in New COVID-19 Cases?
Three weeks after newly identified COVID-19 cases began falling in the United States, The New York Times is acknowledging the downward trend, which it attributes to “effective restrictions.” That explanation fits …