Aug 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy No Second Amendment Right to Export Guns (Including to Haiti) "John Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Rufus King, Albert Gallatin, Robert Morris, James Monroe, Joseph Story, Jonathan Trumbull, James Madison, Henry Clay, [and] John Quincy Adams ... knew a thing or two ...
Aug 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Libel Lawsuit Over Highly Publicized L.A. Landlord-Tenant Dispute Thrown Out The court is unmoved by the claims that defendants' coverage of the underlying dispute led to people threatening her.
Aug 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Today in Supreme Court History: August 12, 1795 8/12/1795: Chief Justice John Rutledge takes judicial oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 12, 1795 appeared first on Reason.com.
Aug 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy First Legal Challenges to Trump's New Birthright Citizenship Executive Order They were filed by plaintiffs in two cases challenging his earlier order, which was struck down by the Supreme Court.
Aug 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy NH Federal Court Provisionally Certifies Class Of Pregnant ISIS Brides Seeking Birthright Citizenship For Their Children No, that didn't actually happen, but it is ripe for the Babylon Bee. In reality, the ACLU has filed a… The post NH Federal Court Provisionally Certifies Class Of Pregnant ISIS Brides Seeking Birthr...
Aug 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Justice Clarence Thomas Talking About Thomas Sewell with My Hoover Colleague Peter Robinson In this episode of The Sowell Legacy, Justice Clarence Thomas joins Peter Robinson for a wide-ranging conversation about the thinker… The post Justice Clarence Thomas Talking About Thomas Sewell wi...
Aug 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Justice Clarence Thomas Talking About Thomas Sowell with My Hoover Colleague Peter Robinson In this episode of The Sowell Legacy, Justice Clarence Thomas joins Peter Robinson for a wide-ranging conversation about the thinker… The post Justice Clarence Thomas Talking About Thomas Sowell wi...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy "In Its 870 Paragraphs, 269 Pages, and 63 Causes of Action," the Complaint "is just too damned long"—no, actually, it "includes the kind of extraordinary level of extraneous detail that necessitates repleader."
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Free Speech Unmuted: Can AI Libel You? The Robby Starbuck Case Jane and I examine the Robby Starbuck v. Google decision, one of the first major court opinions arising from generative AI "hallucinations."
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Klein and Thompson's Abudance Shows Abundant Lack of Introspection The authors recognize the need to reconsider policies that make it hard to innovate and build, but do not ask why they and their allies were blind to such concerns for so long.
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy New In SCOTUSBlog: The court should hold oral argument outside of the capital "I am confident there would be a bipartisan groundswell of support to get the justices out of the beltway."
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy I Say No To SubStack, And Chief Justice Roberts Says Yes "Flagging for you a new essay by Chief Justice Roberts on William Howard Taft for In Pursuit..."
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Defamation Claim Against Academic from Stalking Allegations Against Another Academic, with a Trans Angle From Judge Kelley Hodge (E.D. Pa.) Friday in Duncan v. Lett (see also this February post that discusses a related… The post Defamation Claim Against Academic from Stalking Allegations Against Anoth...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy $200K Libel Award for Cybersecurity Expert Accused by Substacker of Being "Israeli Spy" A short excerpt from the long opinion Friday by Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff (E.D. Va.) in Apelbaum v. Bloom: Plaintiffs… The post $200K Libel Award for Cybersecurity Expert Accused by Substacker of...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy How Many More Jason Ardays Are There? I am intrigued by the story of Jason Arday, who recently resigned his professorship at Cambridge. Most of the press… The post How Many More Jason Ardays Are There? appeared first on Reason.com.
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy "Litigation Often Takes a Toll on a Party's Mental Health on Both Sides of the 'v'" "But the mental-health effects of litigation are, in a sense, the cost of doing business."
Aug 11, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Today in Supreme Court History: August 11, 1942 8/11/1942: General John DeWitt, Commander of Western Defense Command, issues exclusion order. The Supreme Court held this order was constitutional… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 1...
Aug 10, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Reminder: Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop We've already received several submissions, but you can submit until August 16. Don't worry if the article draft isn't fully polished, or even if some portions are incomplete; we're reviewing draft...
