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View More NewsFrom an Institute for Free Speech symposium on the 50th anniversary of Buckley, which I’ve been cross-posting; this is by Allen J. Dickerson is a partner at BakerHostetler and a former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Election Commission:Buckley v. Valeo ranks among the most consequential articulations of American liberty, and yet almost no one reads it in full. It is a famously long decision, written on an emergency timeline, addressing technical material. It lacks the gripping rhetoric of, say, Justice Robert Jackson’s great First Amendment opinions—you will find no paeans to the “fixed stars in our constitutional constellation” here. But,…
An escalating conflict between the federal judiciary and the Trump administration led a frustrated judge in Minnesota to release a list Wednesday of nearly 100 court orders he says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violated over the last month. “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence,” Patrick J. Schiltz, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Minnesota, wrote in a court order Wednesday. Schiltz found that ICE had violated a previous order to immediately release a man being held in an immigration detention center and schedule…
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It has now been a month since Australia’s under‑16 social media ban—officially known as the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024—came into effect.I originally wrote this piece before the ban commenced on 10 December 2025, setting out my predictions for how it would play out. But after three weeks in Europe, I’m now back in Australia witnessing it firsthand. While I was broadly correct about the trade-offs that a blanket ban would involve, what I didn’t anticipate is how those trade-offs would manifest in the first month.The law puts the onus on social media companies to ensure…
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In brief Metaplanet closed a $137 million raise via 24.5M shares and 1-year warrants for Bitcoin purchases. The firm’s stock dropped from a $15.35…
EFF has long warned about the dangers of the “real-time bidding” (RTB) system powering nearly every ad you see online. A proposed class-action settlement…
from the we’re-addicted-to-calling-habits-addictions dept This week, a major trial kicked off in Los Angeles in which hundreds of families sued Meta, TikTok, Snap, and…
Since returning to the White House more than one year ago, President Trump and his administration have continued to take steps on multiple fronts…
The Committee to Protect Journalists has written to Bangladesh’s major political parties ahead of a national election scheduled for February 12, calling for urgent…
For bitcoin BTC$88,126.87 bulls, it feels like one setback after another. First precious metals like gold and silver surged to record highs, sucking capital…
Hang Seng Investment Management has rolled out a new physically backed gold exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Hong Kong, with an option for future tokenized…
In brief Representative Logan Manhart submitted a bill to introduce Bitcoin holdings into the state’s investment funds this week. Manhart’s move comes nearly a…
In Apperson v. Kaminsky, decided Friday by the Missouri Supreme Court (opinion by Justice Paul Wilson, Apperson sued his ex-romantic partners Kaminsky and Norman…
XRP’s XRP$1.8865 price has fallen about 4% this month, starting the new year on a negative note. Yet on-chain data shows a positive trend…
Abu Dhabi–based Universal Digital has launched USDU, the first US dollar‑backed stablecoin to be registered by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates…
In brief A federal court found BPS Financial promoted and operated the Qoin Wallet for nearly three years without an Australian financial services licence.…