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Can New York Enter A Final Criminal Judgement Against Trump While The Federal Removal Action Is Still Pending?
Today Judge Merchan issued a sentence against President-Elect Trump, and presumably created a final appealable judgment. But could he? President Trump has tried to remove this case to federal court under the federal officer removal statute. I wrote about the statute here, and Tillman and I explained why the case could not be removed here. […]
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TikTok Took a Beating at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court appeared largely—though not entirely—unmoved by arguments that a federal ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of the app’s millions of American users. During oral arguments before the Court on Friday, the justices seemed inclined to agree with the federal government that a national security rationale was sufficient to force […]
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Los Angeles Zoning Laws Pushed People and Homes Toward Fire-Prone Areas
The disastrous fires in the Los Angeles area have now claimed at least 10 lives and damaged or destroyed 9,000 structures, according to local officials. With insured losses expected to exceed $20 billion, the wildfires are on track to be the most expensive on record. Though many factors contributed to the devastation (such as fire […]
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2024 Was the Hottest Year On Record
It’s official. 2024 was the hottest year in the instrumental record. How hot? Last year the global average temperature rose more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 19th century pre-industrial mean, according to most of the scientific organizations that track global temperature trends. This exceeds, for the first time, the aspirational goal […]
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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New on the Short Circuit podcast: Major Questions about the SEC and dirt sampling without a warrant. Going in the other direction from most states, in 2023, Virginia legislators outlawed certain products containing THC […]
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Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence
Let us first stipulate that Los Angeles city and county, as well as the entire Golden State, could have had the best governance in the history of human affairs, yet still there would have been property-destroying fires in Southern California this week. When the National Weather Service issues a rare “Particularly Dangerous Situation” (PDS) fire […]
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Woke Religion Burned People’s Homes to the Ground
The wildfire devastation of Los Angeles occurred largely as a result of people in power adhering blindly and madly to a very bad religion.
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Opening the DNC’s Black Box
Why we’re publishing a previously undisclosed list of all 448 members of the Democratic National Committee
