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The ‘Biden Bump’ That Didn’t Last Long
Ever since Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 7, Democrats have been hoping for a Biden surge.
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Far-Right Plans To Use Civil Rights Law To Disrupt 2024 Election
Experts describe the plan as a legal long shot, but say it could sow doubts about the integrity of a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump.
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No Pseudonymity for Alleged Jeffrey Epstein Victims Suing FBI Over Failure to Properly Investigate Epstein
From Doe v. U.S., decided yesterday by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil (S.D.N.Y.): Plaintiffs allege that for over two decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation … allowed [Jeffrey] Epstein and others to sex traffic and sexually abuse children and young women by failing to investigate the reports, tips, and evidence it had of “rampant sexual abuse […]
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“Plaintiff Threatened the District Staff’s Jobs, Reputation, Careers, and Legal Liability—Not Their Physical Safety”
From Pryor v. School Dist. No. 1, decided yesterday by the Tenth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Joel Carson, joined by Judges Timothy Tymkovich and Scott Matheson: The First Amendment protects those who petition the government for redress of grievances, even though such speech may offend government officials or damage their public reputation. Plaintiff […]
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Feds Worried About Anarchists Gluing the Locks to a Government Facility
May Day was coming up and the feds were worried. In April 2015, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent out a bulletin warning that “anarchist extremists will probably engage in criminal or violent activity in one or more US cities on 1 May 2015 and may attempt to co-opt legal protest activity to carry […]
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Groundhog Day for the Crypto Wars: The DOJ on Bitcoin Prowl
On April 24, the Department of Justice continued its assault on open source developers, arresting Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill on allegations of money laundering. Rodriguez and Hill, operating the well-known bitcoin application Samourai Wallet, committed the grand offense of writing code. Under the auspices of money laundering, the DOJ seized servers located abroad, […]
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For Peaceful Campus Protests, Colleges Need Free Speech Principles
This column was written before police entered Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall One challenge of free speech advocacy is holding the line even when the speech in question is vile. Then you must make distinctions between acceptable forms of expression and those that violate the rights of others. That’s why it’s important to have clear, firm […]
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Today in Supreme Court History: May 1, 1871
5/1/1871: Knox v. Lee decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 1, 1871 appeared first on Reason.com.
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