See Lenore Skenazy’s Reason article with that title: A mom took to TikTok, begging for advice: “My kid was outside, another kid was walking outside somewhere, and then they stopped and started playing together.” She was baffled. The mom went on to explain that the unknown kid was 8 years old. He was polite and […]

Law review editors, lawyers, and paralegals are trained to check whether cited legal authorities have been overruled or otherwise abrogated. This is the right thing to do, but it’s also the smart thing to do, since it helps avoid embarrassing and credibility-destroying errors. Fortunately, law has long had tools for doing this, from the old […]

“Legal history regarded as a whole is a history of institutions as well as of doctrines, and it cannot be complete until the influence of each of these two factors in producing the common product is shown in its due proportion. Law can act upon practical affairs only through institutions, and these two sides are […]

From the sign code in Arab, Alabama, which regulates privately owned signs on private property: While trying to maintain content-neutrality, signs that contain vulgar, threatening, hate speech, lewd or indecent content are not permitted. I believe that should read “while not actually trying to maintain content-neutrality.” Indeed, a prohibition on “vulgar” signs is unconstitutionally content-based […]

The thirty-fourth episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of Strangers on the Internet with co-host and psychologist Michelle Lange features an exclusive interview with Stuart Chaseman, the middle-aged Chicagoan musician and entrepreneur who quickly emerged as the fan favorite of the Netflix show “Jewish Matchmaking.” While TikToks declared him a male role model to emulate, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro singled him […]

Daily News and Updates for June 19th, 2023: ““We Do Support You, Mr. Hoft. We Thank You for What You Have Done for the Black Community” – Prison Locks Down Ryan Samsel and Cush’Mir McBride After Gateway Pundit Told Their Story – Now the Prisoners Thank TGP Community for Exposing Abuse” – Stillness in the […]

On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided Haaland v. Brackeen. This 7-2 decision upheld provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) that governed adoptions of children with some connection to an Indian tribe. The opinion, in total, stretched 133 pages. (Obergefell, by contrast, was only 103 pages!) Justice Barrett’s majority opinion was 34 pages. Justice Gorsuch’s concurrence, which was […]

Randy Barnett’s The Original Meaning of the Commerce Clause was cited on Thursday by Justice Thomas’s dissent in Haaland v. Brackeen and on May 25 in Justice Thomas’s concurrence in Sackett v. EPA, and Sam Bray’s “Necessary and Proper” and “Cruel and Unusual”: Hendiadys in the Constitution was cited on Thursday by Justice Gorsuch’s dissent in […]

I wrote in January about a New York trial court decision that allowed the New York Attorney General’s office to subpoena VDARE’s records related to alleged financial self-dealing by nonprofit directors; I quoted extensively from the decision. Peter Brimelow of VDARE has written up a response to the Attorney General’s allegations, and I’m glad to […]

KRDO (Quinn Ritzdorf) reports the lawyer “thought he was filing a motion with cited cases that would favor his client’s argument, only to find out many of the cases were made up by Artificial Intelligence software ChatGPT.” The lawyer said that “it was the first motion to set aside a summary judgment he had ever […]