After adding seven new cases to their merits docket on Friday, the justices issued additional orders from last week’s conference. They did not add any more new cases to their docket, but they did deny review in a high-profile case in which they had been...
(Here is the latest edition of the Institute for Justice’s weekly Short Circuit newsletter, written by John Ross.) This week on the podcast: No qualified immunity for officer who forced teen to masturbate, no habeas for man convicted after prosecutor lied, and no eminent domain for...
Special counsel Robert Mueller has moved aggressively in his high-profile seven-month probe. He has brought charges against four people with ties to the Trump campaign or administration, including the president’s onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The outcome of...
We are better off reviving natural rights as a useful explanation for some of our constitutional virtues, but to counteract the crisis of modernity we need to explore other explanations of our Constitution....
At a time when personal information can end up online and rocket around the globe in seconds, the 78 million Americans with criminal records are a rich target for websites that collect mugshots from police departments and sheriffs’ offices and charge hundreds or thousands of...
In a rural California classroom, more than a dozen 5- and 6-year-olds huddled in the corner as a gunman sprayed bullets and tried to break his way in. The doors were locked and all children were inside, part of a plan the staff and students...
A small pipe bomb went off near New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday, and the suspect was immediately taken into custody, the New York Daily News reports. The blast went off in an underground subway passage just 200 feet from the terminal...
Gone are the days of just having the desk phone. Today’s client expects to reach you wherever you are, and simply being available when you’re at your desk is a last millennium concept. While by now, you have surely upgraded to having a cell phone,...
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). (Rick Bowmer/Associated Press) The office of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) passed along this item, which I thought would be very interesting for our readers, as it tells us something about how Republicans are continuing to argue about judicial appointments; naturally, if a...
The increase in political polarization in this country reflects the decreasing sectional attachments that rose from the Civil War....