Politics
Politics investigates how governments, parties, and policymakers shape the landscape of free speech and censorship. From campaign regulations to state restrictions, this category examines the role of politics in defining the boundaries of expression and democratic debate.
Yesterday’s Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision in MacCudden v. Johnson (Justice Joseph Donald, joined by Justice Maxine White), involved a…
President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed Star Wars, promised to create a missile defense system so effective it would…
From the opinion released Oct. 21, 2025: In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an Emory professor posted…
Following up from my post last night, I am pleased to report that the Bork Lecture at the FedSoc National…
Amid the ongoing shutdown drama, federal transportation officials quietly relaxed an obscure safety regulation that has been stymying the rollout…
My Hoover colleague Philip Zelikow, who is involved in the tariff litigation, passed this blog post along to me, and…
Words from Magistrate Judge Jason Robertson (E.D. Okla.) in last week’s Mattox v. Product Innovations Research, LLC. A bit of background:…
On December 22, 2022, 51-year-old Lamont Mealy was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his roommate and was sentenced…
Ceasefire or not? Yesterday, Israeli strikes killed 100 people in Gaza, claiming that the ceasefire had been violated, since Hamas has…
From Galdos-Shapiro v. Town of Great Barrington, decided Oct. 17 by Judge Mark Mastroianni (D. Mass.): Beginning in 2018, Plaintiff…
Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei won an important election victory on Sunday when his coalition, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), received…
In his post on why a President or Governor might select a judicial nominee who has no prior judicial experience,…
