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July 2025

Donald Trump would like to strip a lot of folks' citizenship
But if the courts stick to constitutional precedent, they're unlikely to let him get away with it.
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Did the WSJ wink?
Its advice that people shouldn't be allowed to mask up on the street "while terrorizing others and flouting the law" might have more than one meaning.
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Deportation nation: a roundup
As masked ICE enforcers rampage through American streets and workplaces, non-citizens aren't their only targets.
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Advertisers have a right to withdraw from X over noxious content
Sorry, Musk-'n'-FTC, but your legal theories are going to run smack into the First Amendment if your adversaries ever get them to court.
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June 2025

SCOTUS's new parental rights scheme
The Court says some of the right things about coercion in a public school context. But I doubt its new free-exercise theory will prove either truly…
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The Court cuts court orders down to size
In the birthright citizenship case, the Supreme Court was in a hurry to abolish the universal injunction. It should have considered taking an off ramp…
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....and throw away the key
Five months into Trump II, roughly a third of Americans have come to favor deportation policies that would have seemed unthinkably harsh not long ago.
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An outrage conjured up from clear blue sky
The prosaic truth about Bluesky's supposed insta-ban on JD Vance
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Some liberties end in ICE
A few items that caught my notice about our new secret police
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California has a date with Trump in court
The Constitution limits his power to push states around
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