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28+ min ago Former attorney general Bill Barr on Friday spoke in favor of President Donald Trump's strikes on Venezuelan drug boats and argued that U.S. intervention in the South American dictatorship could discourage neighboring states from working with Hezbollah and the Chinese Communist…...
Jimmy Lai is a martyr for freedom
34+ min ago That he would probably end up in prison, however, was never really in doubt. Which brings me back to his U.K. citizenship. Lai did not have to stay in Hong Kong as the walls closed in on him. The self-made business…...
Donate to the Institute for Justice
34+ min ago Eugene Volokh | 12.19.2025 3:54 PM I've just donated to the Institute for Justice, one of the top libertarian public interest law firms in the country, and a weekly contributor to this blog: IJ's John Ross writes the excellent Short Circuit feature. If…...
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
58+ min ago John Ross | 12.19.2025 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of'Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New on the Short Circuit podcast: A couple Master Thespian attorneys explain how being a good…...
Trump's designation of fentanyl as a 'weapon of mass destruction' is a drug-fueled delusion
58+ min ago The fentanyl implicated in U.S. drug deaths is not a "weapon." It is a psychoactive substance that Americans voluntarily consume, either knowingly or because they thought they were buying a different drug. Nor is that fentanyl "designed or intended" to "cause…...
1+ hour, 48+ min ago New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D.) on Friday announced that former U.S. acting labor secretary Julie Su, who presided over mass welfare fraud as California labor secretary, will join the New York City government as the city's first deputy mayor for…...
Australians Could Learn Something from the United States
1+ hour, 58+ min ago Almost before the bodies were cold at Australia's Bondi Beach, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his colleagues were talking about stricter gun control laws, including limits on the number of licensed firearms an Australian citizen could own, and preventing non-citizens…...
Supreme Courts rejects Trump administration’s request in dispute over immigration judges
2+ hour, 22+ min ago At the center of the dispute is a policy that the National Association of Immigration Judges describes as barring its members "from speaking in their personal capacities about immigration and about the agency that employs them." The NAIJ went to…...
JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America Face Scrutiny Over Debanking Practices Against Firearm Industry
2+ hour, 28+ min ago It is unfortunate that the nation's largest banks thought these harmful debanking policies were an appropriate use of their government-granted charter and market power," Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould, a Trump appointee, said in a statement. The report indicates…...
2+ hour, 31+ min ago March 9, 2026 - 9:00am PDT to March 13, 2026 - 6:00pm PDTMoscone Center | San Francisco, CAGamers, rise up! EFF is excited to support and participate in this year's GDC Festival of Gaming! You can stop by and see some of EFF's staff during the GDC Welcome Party…...