Brickbat: Don’t Tiptoe Through the Tulips

New Jersey officials shut down the annual drive-thru tulip festivals hosted by Dalton Farms and Holland Ridge Farms, saying they violated an executive order by Gov. Phil Murphy banning events. The …

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Virginia Court: Governor Lacks Power to Close Gun Ranges

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam closed gun ranges, alongside K-12 schools, churches, restaurants, and “recreational/entertainment businesses,” because of the epidemic. Today, Judge F. Patrick Yeatts held (in Lynchburg Range & Training, …

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Does a dissent have the “force of law”?

Today the Supreme Court decided Georgia v. Public Resource.Org, Inc. The Court held that under the government edicts doctrine, the annotations beneath the statutory provisions in the Official Code of …

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