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[ad_1] Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to insults from Dr. Anthony Fauci written during the pandemic, calling them “badges of honor” in an appearance Monday on FOX News. In his ‘diaries’ from August 2021, Fauci wrote: “Besides being a total jerk, he is causing people to die in his home state.” Four days later: “Governor DeSantis is a complete disgrace.””I think those are badges of honor, to have him attacking me,” DeSantis said. “The diaries, I think, really validate what I saw early on. This is a guy who was drinking his own Kool-Aid. He was venerated by the media.”I…
[ad_1] As millions hold some credit but no bachelor’s, lines between community college, high schools, and four-year institutions are blurring. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The article is here; the Abstract: When the government regulates conduct, it does not always do so directly. Increasingly, the government regulates conduct indirectly—by pressuring some intermediary to do the direct regulatory work for it. This form of indirect regulation has raised considerable concern in the context of speech regulation. Scholars and activists have sounded alarm bells that this form of indirect speech regulation, typically referred to as “jawboning,” often violates the First Amendment because it allows the government to censor expression on the cheap. Indeed, during its 2024 term, the Supreme Court heard two different First Amendment jawboning…
[ad_1] NA Today, twenty-five largely Democratic-controlled state governments filed a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s massive new Section 301 tariffs. The complaint, filed in the US Court of International Trade, is available here. The suit is led by the state of Oregon, which also played a key role in leading state challenges to previous illegal Trump tariffs, including the IEEPA tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court in February (the Oregon lawsuit was consolidated with one I helped litigate on behalf of private small businesses harmed by the tariffs), and the more recent decision striking down Trump’s Section 122 tariffs. I commend…
[ad_1] What we do know is that things have internal structures with dynamics that operate whether we “like” them or not. Correspondent Manoj S. recommended an essay from the always-insightful John Michael Greer on the dissolution of unproductive classes behind the smokescreen of AI: A Game of Musical Chairs “You can sell Americans on anything, no matter how wretchedly unsatisfactory it is, by labeling it as progress. That’s what’s being done now, with AI being used as a justification for firing useless workers, deleting unnecessary departments, cutting office staff down to scales that actually make sense, and shutting down the classroom-to-cubicle…
[ad_1] As promised, government services contractor Gordon-Darby Inc. has renewed its attempt to force the state of New Hampshire to revive its vehicle emissions inspection program. On July 22, the firm filed a new lawsuit challenging the state’s decision to end the program and seeking a federal court injunction to force the state to re-start it–thus giving Gordon-Darby the opportunity to pursue another lucrative contact providing emission inspection testing. As before, Gordon-Darby’s suit betrays a profound misunderstanding of both the Clean Air Act and the constitutional limits on the federal government’s ability to compel state action. The central claim in…
[ad_1] The article is here; the Abstract: This paper examines how the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR or Court) hate speech jurisprudence has been structurally reoriented by the Court’s response to an increasing number of applications brought by victims of hate speech. Whereas earlier case law predominantly assessed hate speech under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, focusing on the permissibility of restrictions on expression, recent victim-initiated claims have directed the ECtHR’s analysis towards Articles 8 and 14 and thus towards the question of State responsibility for protection against harm caused by third-party speech. Through a…
[ad_1] Not long after I spent 11 days in a bare-bones clinic attached to the prison, where staff struggled to provide even ibuprofen, inmates across from my cell told me the loose sheet outside my door carried a new name: Jhon Piamond. I could see the same kind of sheets outside other cells, but the angle prevented me from seeing my own. The name sounded invented: Jhon was a Venezuelan spelling of John, and Piamond was simply Diamond with its first letter changed. During bed checks, guards called for Jhon Piamond and waited for me to respond. “Who the hell…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump continues to insist damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of vandalism, despite a Department of Justice motion filed on July 31 that placed the blame squarely on a contractor’s “botched” installation of the pool coating “and not vandalism as initially represented” by the Department of Interior. According to a motion from U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro to dismiss a felony destruction of property charge against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, it wasn’t until after Hearn was indicted that the Department of Interior provided prosecutors with “additional documents ……