The Third Circuit held oral argument in this important computer hacking case on March 19th. Since then, the government has filed two supplemental letters and Auernheimer has filed responses to them. Here are the letters.
The Internal Revenue Service has grown along with the size and complexity of the tax code.
I’ve read a lot of unhappy reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision today in McCutcheon v. FEC. While it invalidated only one, somewhat obscure, campaign finance restriction, critics fear that it is part of the slow, continuous march toward an even greater right to contribute money for purposes of politics. Rick Hasen’s piece today on […]
Justice Breyer has a narrow vision of freedom of speech. He inherited it from early twentieth century Progressives who thought that freedom of speech is neither a natural right nor a restraint on government power, but a way of encouraging a robust marketplace of ideas.
Real and fake papers posted yesterday, including mine.
My Reason.org blog post on how the federal and Michigan Contract Clauses, and the Michigan Pension Clause, may affect the validity of the Detroit bankruptcy.
Grand jury subpoenas — as well as some other subpoenas — are sometimes accompanied with gag orders, barring the recipient (the person or entity who must turn over documents) from revealing the existence of the subpoena. Some courts, though, are scrutinizing such speech restrictions, and especially the procedures used for imposing such restrictions. This decision […]
Fascinating true facts about etymology.
Russia's advocacy of a "federal system" for Ukraine is deeply hypocritical. But the idea is worth considering nonetheless. Increased political decentralization could help diminish ethnic antagonisms in Ukrainian society - but only if Ukraine can be kept safe from further Russian military intervention.
With an added link to Avinash Dixit and Gene Grossman's classic American Economic Review paper from 1984, "Directly Unproductive Prophet-Seeking Activities".
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