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Trump supports asylum for Iranian women’s soccer team. His immigration policy doesn’t.
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (430+ words) This week, President Donald Trump advocated on behalf of asylum seekers'though only in one very specific situation. Before an Asian Cup match in Australia, Iran's women's soccer team declined to sing their country's national anthem, though they "sang the anthem…...
Live Nation settled its lawsuit with the feds. Don’t expect concert tickets to get any cheaper.
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (199+ words) Live Nation Entertainment and the federal government have reached an agreement to end a yearslong antitrust lawsuit. If you think that's going to make your Bad Bunny tickets cheap, think again. On Monday, Politico reported that Live Nation, the largest…...
“See MAGA, Shoot MAGA” in TikTok Video Was Criminally Punishable Threat
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (157+ words) Eugene Volokh | 3.9.2026 5:45 PM From U.S. v. Segari, decided today by Judge Kathryn Mizelle (M.D. Fla.): Segari balls her fist and points her index finger to mimic a firearm when saying, "see someone with a MAGA hat pew pew that's what we do." The…...
Liberty Justice Center Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Section 122 Tariffs
3+ hour ago (517+ words) LJC is the group with which I worked on the IEEPA tariff case decided by the Supreme Court. Ilya Somin | 3.9.2026 4:14 PM The LJC complaint is available here. Here is an excerpt from LJC's description of the new case: On March…...
What is life like under the bombs of the Iran war?
7+ hour, 34+ min ago (690+ words) Since the U.S.-Israeli air raids on Iran last week, every single country in the region has seen some level of bombing or even ground skirmishes. While most Americans are experiencing the war mostly through higher prices at the gas pump'though…...
Mamdani’s ‘Rental Ripoff’ Hearings won’t fix New York housing
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (285+ words) "No heat, no hot water. The boiler wasn't working. I have water in my walls," renter Tori Brown informed officials at the first Rental Ripoff Hearing last month in Brooklyn. Another tenant told NTD that he had been dealing with…...
Lawsuit Over Cancellation of April 2024 Pro-Palestine Protest at U Texas Can Go Forward
10+ hour, 41+ min ago (201+ words) Eugene Volokh | 3.9.2026 8:33 AM In response, UT preemptively cancelled the event by sending notices to PSC student representatives, with one such notice dated April 23, 2024, and four others dated April 24, 2024. In those notices, UT states its reasons for cancellation as follows: However,…...
Open Thread
8+ hour, 27+ min ago (80+ words) Auto-post somehow failed today, so I've manually posted this. Enjoy as usual! Eugene Volokh | 3.9.2026 10:47 AM NEXT: Alleged Threats Against Alleged Groomers / Sex Traffickers of Minors Don't Justify Sealing of Personal Information / Pseudonymity Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.9.2026 11:25 AM Matt Welch | 3.9.2026 9:45 AM Eric…...
Philosophy Prof, Discussion of Adult-Child Sex Bans, and the First Amendment
11+ hour, 13+ min ago (496+ words) SUNY Fredonia philosophy professor had been barred from campus over podcast questioning illegality and immorality of adult-child sexual contact; a federal court has just allowed his First Amendment claim to go forward. Eugene Volokh | 3.9.2026 8:01 AM From Kershnar v. Kolison, decided Friday…...
No Second Amendment "Right to Build Solar-Powered Greenhouses"
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (138+ words) Eugene Volokh | 3.9.2026 10:06 AM So Judge Joshua Wolson (E.D. Pa.) held yesterday in Nellom v. Shapiro, unsurprisingly. An excerpt, from the Factual Allegations section: Congress passed the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" in 2021, which resulted in the "Justice40 Initiative mission of Sustainability of our…...