Brickbat: Longing for Home
The British government plans to deport twins born in London to two separate countries. Darrell and Darren Roberts were born to a Dominican father and a Grenadan mother. Children born …
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Don’t Put Too Much Faith in the Experts
Between 2 million and 3 million Americans will die! That was the prediction from “experts” at London’s Imperial College when COVID-19 began. They did also say if there was “social …
Foie Gras Could Be Back on the Menu in California,
The California foie gras statute provides, A product may not be sold in California if it is the result of force feeding a bird for the purpose of enlarging the …
18-to-20-Year-Olds Have a Right to Buy Handguns
Federal law bans professional gun dealers from selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-olds, but doesn’t ban 18-to-20-year-olds from buying handguns from nonprofessional sellers (so-called “private sales”). That’s one effect of Congress’s decision …
Holy Fight Ministries Loses Cockfighting Religious Freedom Lawsuit
From Judge Brian A. Jackson’s opinion yesterday in Plumbar v. Perrilloux (M.D. La.): [T]he Louisiana Criminal Code … makes it unlawful for any person to … “organize or conduct any …
White House Backtracks on Controversial Plan To Kick Foreign Students Out of U.S.
The White House has rescinded a controversial directive that would have revoked visas from foreign students attending college in the U.S. if those institutions opted to go online-only amid the …
This Florida Inmate Is Serving an Outdated Drug Sentence. Now He Has Coronavirus
Florida inmate William Forrester has served 11 years of a mandatory minimum drug sentence that is no longer on the books, imposed by a judge who thought it was too …
Government Rescinds July 6 Directive on Student Visa Rules
The federal government’s July 6 Directive announcing a change to student visa rules, which imperiled the status of online-only and hybrid international students, is being rescinded after much protest and …
Justice Breyer made it impossible for Congress to impeach territorial officers for accepting bribes
Seth Barrett Tillman and I wrote a new piece on Balkinization about the Puerto Rico Appointments Clause case. Justice Breyer’s majority opinion held that territorial officers with “with primarily local …
Court Agrees Kids Can Ride the Bus Without Their Dad
A Canadian dad has won the right to let his kids ride the local bus without the threat of the government taking them away from him. Vancouver, British Columbia, tech …