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As most readers are probably aware, an attorney has threatened legal action against some of the journalists and online commenters who vilified a group of Covington High School students after a…
From John Locke Foundation’s director of legal studies, Jon Guze – I’m not familiar with his work at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and I haven’t…
When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, I was thrilled. I had read and admired his opinions for years, and, when people asked me what I…
In a recent Washington Post article, Aaron Blake discusses “the liberal Trump outrage machine” and its absurd reaction to Jeff Sessions’ use of the phrase “Anglo-American” in a recent speech…
Eugene Volokh notes an unusual fact pattern in the case of Woods-Leber v. Hyatt Hotels of Puerto Rico: [Hyatt’s] Cerromar Beach Hotel … in Dorado, Puerto Rico … occupies a picturesque…
That question was recently addressed by the Ohio Court of Appeals. The Court found that: While [the law] affords trial courts discretion in imposing restrictions corresponding to a CPO, this…
President Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court, and I’m absolutely delighted. Judge Gorsuch is a fourth-generation Coloradan whose academic and early professional…
Quote for the day. From a talk by Senator Ben Sasse at the Federalist Society Convention last week. H/T: Eugene Volokh.
George Leef’s latest Forbes column focuses on the federal case surrounding a baseball cap with a familiar motto. When I was young, a phrase I heard rather frequently was “Don’t…
In a previous blog post I made fun of the confusing and ungrammatical constructions that resulted when a reporter used the word “they” in every context in which an ordinary speaker of English…
Steve Guest of the Daily Caller unearths some interesting 40-year-old comments from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now a member of the U.S. Supreme Court’s so-called “liberal bloc.” Liberal Supreme Court Justice…
Every year thousands of petitioners ask the US Supreme Court to review their cases. Of necessity, the Court denies the vast majority of these requests, and ordinarily it does so without comment. Yesterday, however,…