**Does the First Amendment Bar Public Schools from Removing School Library Books Based on Their Viewpoints?**
The Supreme Court split on this 4-4 in 1982, and the matter remains unsettled.
**A Statute of Limitations Cautionary Tale, Here with Regard to Changing COVID-Related Tolling Rules**
Take the No-Procrastination Pledge.
**Why Big Tech will lose its Supreme Court case on section 230**
I only count two votes to ratify Big Tech's sweeping immunity claims
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/27/why-big-tech-will-lose-its-supreme-court-case-on-section-230/
**U.S. Energy Department Endorses Lab Leak Theory of COVID-19's Origins**
The push to label the lab leak thesis a racist conspiracy theory now looks even more foolish.
https://reason.com/2023/02/27/lab-leak-theory-energy-department-coronavirus-covid-origin-china/
**Can Public School Block Rentals by Church That Had Speaker Who Said She'd Stopped Being Lesbian?**
From the San Diego Union Tribune (Kristen Taketa): On the first Sunday of this month, the pastor of a Scripps Ranch church brought in a guest speak…
**Today in Supreme Court History: February 27, 1901**
2/27/1901: Champion v. Ames argued.
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**SCOTUS Says Domestic Spying Is Too Secret To Be Challenged in Court**
Officials shield government abuses from litigation by claiming “national security.” The Supreme Court declined to weigh in.
https://reason.com/2023/02/27/scotus-says-domestic-spying-is-too-secret-to-be-challenged-in-court/
**Brickbat: Taking the Piss Out of Them**
After protests from students, the Milford, New Hampshire, school board has backed off a plan to ban students from using urinals in school restrooms. The ban was part of a compromise to allow trans students …
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**Probing the Limits of Speech or Debate Clause Privilege for Perry and Pence**
The January 6 invistigations have renewed interest in this somewhat obscure constitutional provision and the scope of its protections.
**Today in Supreme Court History: February 26, 1869**
2/26/1869: The 15th Amendment is submitted to the states.
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**Hongkonger Anna Kwok on Human Rights**
Right now, Hongkongers have lost their avenues to speak because of the national security law imposed by the new government.
Comments: https://reason.com/2023/02/26/hongkonger-anna-kwok-on-human-rights/#comments
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**Rousseau, Malthus, and Thanos Were Wrong**
The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world.
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**The Vice-President and the Speech or Debate Clause**
Prof. Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee, Instapundit) has an item on his Substack about the Vice President Mike Pence / Speech or Debate Clause controversy, based on a Northwestern University Law Revie…
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**Calling Abortion Groups "Criminal Organizations" = Constitutionally Protected Opinion, Even When Abortion Was Legal**
From Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity v. Dickson, decided yesterday by the Texas Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Jane…
**Higher Education "Reform" in Florida**
Some of the proposals pose real threats to free inquiry
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**State Lawmakers Help Farmers by Improving Consumer Access to Raw Milk**
The raw milk restoration is underway.
https://reason.com/2023/02/25/state-lawmakers-help-farmers-by-improving-consumer-access-to-raw-milk/
**State Lawmakers Help Farmers by Improving Consumer Access to Raw Milk**
The raw milk restoration is underway.
https://reason.com/2023/02/25/state-lawmakers-help-farmers-by-improving-consumer-access-to-raw-milk/
**Today in Supreme Court History: February 25, 1841**
2/25/1841: Justice Phillip Barbour dies.
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**The Big Myth Is Full of Recycled Anti-Capitalist Cheap Shots**
A new entrant in the anti-neoliberalism genre fails to land any blows.
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**Justice Kagan Double-Helixes Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh**
Kagan: "Kavanaugh, J. (recognizing that the argument may be forfeited, but opining on it anyway)."
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/24/justice-kagan-double-helixes-justices-gorsuch-and-kavanaugh/