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Hegseth Lays Out 3-Part Mission: Conflict ‘Not Endless’
Pete Hegseth outlines three-part mission against Iran during Pentagon briefing, rejecting endless war comparisons while detailing Operation Epic Fury objectives.
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Mayor’s Right to Dismiss Volunteer Board Appointees for Speech, Including Religiously Motivated Speech
From Hodges v. Gloria, decided Thursday by the Ninth Circuit (Judges Consuelo Callahan and Lucy Koh, and Judge J. Campbell Barker (E.D. Tex.)), an interesting exchange: Dennis Hodges, a correctional officer and religious pastor, challenges San Diego Mayor Gloria’s veto of his reappointment as a voluntary member to the City’s Police Advisory Board … as […]
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Prof. Tom Merrill (Columbia) Guest-Blogging About “Unstated”: How Three Implicit Legal Ideas Have Sidelined Congress and Empowered the President and the Courts
Prof. Merrill is giving the Hallows Lecture at Marquette tonight on this subject, and I’m delighted to report that he’ll also be guest-blogging on it here this week. Here’s the abstract of the lecture: Why has Congress, the constitutional keystone of the federal government, become so ineffective, relative to the president and the federal judiciary? While […]
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How Unstated Legal Ideas Have Deformed the Constitution
[The first of four blog posts drawing on tonight’s Hallows Lecture at Marquette Law School.] For several decades, we have been witnessing a Congress in long decline and a corresponding ascent of the President and the courts. I see this as a fundamental deformation of the Constitution—a deviation from its original and better design—and this deformation […]
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Apparent AI Glitch in Filing by Montana Public Defender, Recent Congressional Candidate
Everyone makes mistakes, even experienced professionals; a good reminder for the rest of us to learn from those mistakes. The motion in State v. Stroup starts off well in its initial pages (no case law hallucinations), but is then followed by several pages of two other motions, which I don’t think the lawyer was planning […]
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100 Years of Murray Rothbard
Today is the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard. While he was alive, Rothbard was the most significant direct influence both on a wide range of individual libertarian scholars and activists and on the major institutions that constituted the American libertarian movement in the second half of the 20th century. He was key to […]
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Canadian Cops Questioned Dad About Human Trafficking After He Took His Daughter to a Coffee Shop
Police blasted out Jonathan Puddle’s picture as part of a human trafficking investigation. His mistake? Going out in public with his daughter, Emmi. Yes, Puddle had the audacity to take his teenage daughter to an Ontario coffee shop. When another patron saw the pair together—an older man with a teenager!—he grew suspicious, because…reasons. He followed […]
