Politics

Paul Ehrlich has died at the old age of 93. I am grateful he lived long enough to witness how…

Cassandra Burke Robertson and I have a new piece entitled “Denaturalization’s Missing Limit” forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review…

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Happy St. Patrick’s Day, have a Guinness or two (or 10).…

When President Donald Trump implemented his Liberation Day tariffs last spring, the president’s senior adviser, Peter Navarro, suggested that these…

A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas, convicted eight protestors on charges ranging from rioting to attempted murder after a…

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter includes stories on: The Trump administration’s new…

I do a lot of legal history research in my academic work, often studying late 18th Century legal understandings and…

Can a “schoolyard dispute” warrant federal court intervention? Do first-graders have First Amendment rights? The U.S. Court of Appeals for…

From McCaffery v NYU School of Law, decided yesterday by Judge John Murphy (E.D. Pa.): This is a defamation case.…

From Toles v. Toles, decided yesterday by the Washington Court of Appeals (opinion by Judge Leonard Feldman, joined by Judges…

From today’s opinion in Doe v. Combs, by Second Circuit Judges Michael Park, William Nardini, and Maria Araújo Kahn, the…

Washington state has beaten California and New York in their race to soak the rich.  On Thursday, the state Legislature…