Michael Lacey, a founder of the New Times tabloid, has been charged in Phoenix in the apparent culmination of a federal human-trafficking investigation, the Arizona Republic reports. Authorities had been probing whether Backpage, the classified advertising website he co-founded, served as a willing participant in...
On the rare occasion when the public meaning diverges from the legal meaning, the public meaning probably ought to prevail. In response to: The Legal Turn More Responses Original Methods Originalism Is Already the Norm by Ilya Shapiro Unless one thinks that the Constitution doesn’t matter or shouldn’t be enforced,...
Mary Daly is the Justice Department’s point person on an opioid crisis that is killing 15 Americans a day, NPR reports. Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Daly, 40, to the newly created post of opioid coordinator in February. “It’s a lot different than being in...
Co-author Chance Decker Recall the Battle of the Bastards: The heroic Lady Sansa and the duplicitous Lord Baelish gallop over the hill to save the foolish Jon Snow from the heinous Ramsey Bolton. In similar fashion, but without the malnourished canines, the Texas Supreme Court in...
At the Associated Press, Jessica Gresko offers a “look at what observers have seen from [Justice Neil] Gorsuch inside and outside the court in the past year,” as the court’s newest justice approaches his first anniversary on the bench. Eliot Mincberg takes stock of Gorsuch’s...
The Supreme Court’s doctrine of expansive federal power is much weaker than the original meaning of limited government....