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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.
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The first year of the second Trump administration has been defined by an economic and foreign policy that treats the…
Yesterday, Virginians voted by a narrow margin to allow the state to deviate from its normal redistricting rules. The plan…
A federal judge sentenced former Baltimore City Schools Police Officer Lawrence Smith to one year and one day in jail.…
Back in 2019, Virginia’s legislators made a broadly bipartisan decision to have the state’s congressional map drawn, for the first…
Last weekend’s release of internal Supreme Court memos continues to prompt commentary–too little of which puts the substance of the…
The UCLA Federalist Society invited James Percival, the General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security to speak on Tuesday,…
More than a year ago, on “Liberation Day,” President Donald Trump unilaterally imposed double-digit tariffs on imports from nearly every…
When exactly did the shadow docket begin? People are now arguing about what was the first relevant shadow docket case,…
Was the Clean Power Plan the first executive branch action halted by Supreme Court order on the “shadow docket”? Was…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a well-known civil rights organization that purports…
From today’s decision by Judge James S. Moody, Jr. (M.D. Fla.) in Loomer v. Maher: Plaintiff Laura Loomer is a…