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Gordon Wood, Bard of the American Revolution Source link
Hollywood Elites Get Their Comeuppance from YouTubers Source link
How a Great Historian Influenced the Supreme Court Source link
Aaron Terr (FIRE) reports, based on accounts from various publications. Some excerpts: The incident occurred outside a conference hall where Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, was scheduled to deliver a keynote address. The Washington Post reports that a small group of researchers quietly handed out printouts of a recent editorial in Diabetes Care criticizing Trump administration policies affecting biomedical research. One of the researchers is the journal’s editor and co-authored the piece. Security staff and police escorted them out of the conference at the request of event organizers. Video captured the confrontation. {The ADA is a private organization, so this isn’t a First Amendment issue.…
A Simple, Unified Theory of Antisemitism Source link
Union Voters Sour on Trump & Dems Over Prices Source link
We weren’t sure you could do it, but you came through. Source link
Joshua Scheer The sentencing of the so-called “Filton Four” has become a flashpoint in a much larger debate about protest, direct action, terrorism legislation, and the role of juries in the British legal system. The case marks the first time that “criminal damage” convictions in the UK have been classified as terrorism. Supporters of the activists argue that the case is not really about criminal damage or even a confrontation with police. Instead, they contend it is about the expanding use of terrorism powers against anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism, and about whether governments can sidestep longstanding legal traditions when…
I have previously written about Donald Trump’s massive planned Section 301 tariffs, arguing that they have some of the same flaws as those invalidated by the Supreme Court in the IEEPA case (which I helped litigate). Today, I am pleased to present a guest post on the Section 301 tariffs by Professor Peter Harrell. Peter is Visiting Scholar at Georgetown’s Institute for International Economic Law, an attorney in private practice, and one of the nation’s leading experts on trade law. He played an important role in helping to develop the arguments that ultimately led to the invalidation of the IEEPA…
What an MoU means in the context of a war is confusing and misleading. Is the war over when it is signed? Or is it a pause until there is a misunderstanding? Kathy Gannon Substack As with so much surrounding the Iran war, which the United States and Israel began in February, truth has been elusive and words have lost much of their meaning. A cease fire agreement does not cease the firing. A peace agreement is not an agreement. Instead it is a Memorandum of Understanding. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and U.S. President Donald Trump have been…