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Today in Supreme Court History: April 12, 1945
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (74+ words) Josh Blackman | 4. 12. 2026 7: 00 AM 4/12/1945: President Harry Truman's inauguration. He would make four appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Vinson, and Justices Burton, Clark, and Minton. Zach Weissmueller | From the May 2026 issue C. Jarrett Dieterle | 4. 11. 2026 7: 00 AM Jack Nicastro | From the May 2026 issue…...
Open Thread
7+ hour, 40+ min ago (49+ words) Eugene Volokh | 4. 12. 2026 3: 00 AM Zach Weissmueller | From the May 2026 issue C. Jarrett Dieterle | 4. 11. 2026 7: 00 AM Jack Nicastro | From the May 2026 issue Meagan O'Rourke | 4. 10. 2026 5: 10 PM Alexandra Stinson | 4. 10. 2026 4: 26 PM...
Keonne Rodriguez on bitcoin, privacy, and going to prison
4+ hour, 40+ min ago (1063+ words) Forty-eight hours before he was scheduled to report to federal prison, Keonne Rodriguez was still talking about code. Rodriguez ultimately pleaded guilty in July 2025 to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business, a charge that carries up to five years…...
Petitioner's Regret No Grounds for Sealing of 8-Year-Old Restraining Order Documents
22+ hour, 54+ min ago (308+ words) Eugene Volokh | 4. 11. 2026 11: 45 AM From Thursday's decision by California Court of Appeal Justice Natalie Stone, joined by Justice John Segal and L. A. Superior Court Judge Alexander Giza, in J. E. v. A. C. : In April 2016 J. E. filed a petition for a domestic violence restraining order against his then-ex-girlfriend,…...
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Law Banning Home Alcohol Distilleries
23+ hour, 9+ min ago (431+ words) The ruling holds the law exceeds Congress' authority under the tax power and the Necessary and Proper Clause. But it does not consider the Commerce Clause. Ilya Somin | 4. 11. 2026 11: 30 AM The decision was written by prominent conservative Judge Edith Jones. But…...
Follow-Up to "Reproducing Controversial Tweet in News Story = Fair Use" Post
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (284+ words) Eugene Volokh | 4. 11. 2026 8: 01 AM Pillsbury (FARA No. 5198) used its "award-winning lobbyists" through its Government Law & Strategies Practice to execute a "silver-bullet" solution: branding Plaintiff a "Karen" to reduce the legal and regulatory risk of employing an unlicensed operative for fourteen years....
Today in Supreme Court History: April 11, 1862
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (49+ words) Josh Blackman | 4. 11. 2026 7: 00 AM C. Jarrett Dieterle | 4. 11. 2026 7: 00 AM Jack Nicastro | From the May 2026 issue Meagan O'Rourke | 4. 10. 2026 5: 10 PM Alexandra Stinson | 4. 10. 2026 4: 26 PM Jacob Sullum | 4. 10. 2026 3: 40 PM...
Democrats and Republicans both want to regulate AI. They just can't agree on how.
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (659+ words) At the federal level, Republican-written AI bills tend to be less concerned with policing how individuals use the technology than with regulating the development and deployment of the underlying technology'large language models (LLMs). Democrat-written bills tend to focus on individual…...
Thoughts on Today's Oral Argument in the Section 122 Tariff Cases
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (180+ words) The outcome is unclear. But the judges seemed skeptical of the Trump Administration's claims that Section 122 grants them sweeping tariff powers. Ilya Somin | 4. 10. 2026 7: 53 PM In today's oral argument, the three judges asked tough questions of both sides, and I am…...
DOGE, the Social Security Administration, and How Inferior Courts Should Treat S. Ct. Interim Orders
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (406+ words) Eugene Volokh | 4. 10. 2026 5: 32 PM Some excerpts from the 88 pages of opinions in AFSCME v. Social Security Admin. , decided today by the Fourth Circuit en banc, in an opinion by Judge Toby Heytens: After hours of hearings and hundreds of pages of analysis,…...