On an average day in an average year, around 1,700 people are released from federal penitentiaries and state prisons, back into the poor and segregated neighborhoods from which they were forcefully removed months, years, or decades earlier. They join what amounts to a mid-sized city, with...
Yesterday the court heard argument in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, which asks whether a Minnesota law banning political apparel at polling places is facially overbroad under the First Amendment. Amy Howe has this blog’s argument analysis, which first appeared at Howe on the Court....
President Trump has called for “hardened schools” to end the cycle of school massacres. He was unimpressed when told about a Shelbyville, In., high school dubbed “the safest school in America.” The school has state-of-the-art cameras that send real-time footage to a sheriff’s office, smoke...
In an age of postmodern hyper-individualism, Churchill’s and Orwell’s advocacy of individual liberty isn’t what is most interesting about them....
On the heels of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) third annual “PrivacyCon,” the Future of Privacy Forum hosted its eighth annual “Privacy Papers for Policymakers” event on Capitol Hill—a gathering in which academics present their original scholarly works on privacy-related topics to D.C. policy wonks...
Yesterday, a male passenger aboard the Carnival Elation reportedly sexually assaulted an 18-year-old woman with special needs during a cruise to the Bahamas. The incident occurred in a hot tub aboard the Carnival cruise ship. A Jacksonville, Florida news station reported that that the mother of...