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SCOTUS Resolves Two-Way State Court Split About New Jersey Transit
12+ hour, 20+ min ago (182+ words) The New York Court of Appeals is affirmed, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is reversed. Josh Blackman | 3.4.2026 11:06 AM Through Justice Sotomayor's unanimous decision, the Supreme Court resolved this two-way split by favoring New York's holding. Moreover, there is an emergency…...
Trump weighs arming Kurdish rebels as Iran war goal shifts
13+ hour, 50+ min ago (740+ words) Rebel fighters: Even before the strikes started, one of the biggest questions about the war in Iran has been: What's the endgame?" The Trump administration has suggested a number of possibilities: Degrading and destroying Iran's military capacity; eliminating its nuclear…...
Marco Rubio Threatens to "Unleash Chiang" on Iran. What?
14+ hour, 48+ min ago (175+ words) David Bernstein | 3.4.2026 8:38 AM Rubio: "We're going to unleash Chiang on these people in the next few hours and days. You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and intensity of these attacks as, frankly, the two…...
Interesting Dissent in American Indian Religious Case Under Texas RFRA
14+ hour, 53+ min ago (235+ words) Religion and the Law Eugene Volokh | 3.4.2026 8:33 AM The City of San Antonio plans to destroy a sacred Native American religious site. The burdens on plaintiffs' religious freedoms are undeniable. But a panel of our court dismissed them. In my view,…...
The Role of Delegation Theories in Deforming the Constitution
15+ hour, 25+ min ago (453+ words) The Supreme Court's approaches of assuming agency authority to issue legislative rules and of prohibiting Congress from delegating to itself have resulted in an enormous transfer of power to the Executive. Tom Merrill | 3.4.2026 8:01 AM [The third of four blog posts…...
Computer scientists caution against internet age-verification mandates
16+ hour, 26+ min ago (299+ words) "We all knew circumventing the ban was going to be possible, but it was so much easier than we could have expected," 14-year-old Sarai Ades told The Guardian last month about Australia's law. Similarly, the U.K.'s recent age-verification requirements resulted…...
Open Thread
20+ hour, 26+ min ago (55+ words) Eugene Volokh | 3.4.2026 3:00 AM NEXT: Justice Kagan's Bad Ayahuasca Trip Jacob Sullum | 3.4.2026 12:01 AM Eric Boehm | 3.3.2026 5:00 PM C.J. Ciaramella | 3.3.2026 4:00 PM Jacob Sullum | 3.3.2026 3:45 PM Ronald Bailey | 3.3.2026 2:05 PM...
Justice Kagan's Bad Ayahuasca Trip
23+ hour, 23+ min ago (253+ words) Because this hallucinogen can also be used for a religious ritual, there is a very difficult question about how federal gun law would apply. Josh Blackman | 3.4.2026 12:03 AM I hadn't given much thought to hoasca until oral argument in Hemani on…...
Civil libertarians left and right unite to oppose disarming cannabis consumers
23+ hour, 25+ min ago (447+ words) Most of the justices, including both Republican and Democratic appointees, seemed skeptical of that claim. Their agreement reflected the trans-partisan alliances inspired by this case, which illustrates the potential for common ground between right-leaning critics of gun control and left-leaning…...
Substantive Due Process After Mirabelli
23+ hour, 56+ min ago (387+ words) Dobbs didn't end SDP, but instead reoriented it to the Glucksberg history and tradition test. Josh Blackman | 3.3.2026 11:30 PM But the very phrasing the Court uses betrays the delicateness of the operation: Even in recognizing that parental right, the Court cannot…...