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[ad_1] From Barnes v. Scola, decided Thursday by Judge Richard Seeborg (N.D. Cal.): Selena Scola is an actress, entertainer, and influencer. Scola began performing under the name Lexi Love in 2004 in adult films. Between 2004 and 2010, she starred in over 600 such films. During this time, she also worked as a featured dancer at night clubs across the country and was hired to help promote companies at industry expositions. She appeared at red carpet events, award shows, and conventions and guest-starred on radio talk shows. In 2009, she became an advocate for safe sex in the adult entertainment…

[ad_1] After his election in 2020, President Joe Biden faced enormous pressure from progressive activists who wanted him to expand the U.S. Supreme Court by packing it with a supermajority of new liberal justices who would be ready, willing, and able to override the Court’s conservative majority. Yet Biden consistently resisted such pressure. Why? Perhaps it was because Biden agreed with liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said it “was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court” in 1937, and it would be an equally bad idea to try again. “If anything would make the…

[ad_1] 7/21/1824: Justice Stanley Matthews’s birthday. Justice Stanley MatthewsThe post Today in Supreme Court History: July 21, 1824 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School. This episode features a conversation with Greg Greubel, a senior attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and one of the lead attorneys who argued the case against Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act restrictions of faculty speech in public university classrooms. The 11th Circuit just handed down an opinion in that case, Pernell v. Florida Board of Governors. It is one of the most consequential academic freedom cases of…

[ad_1] Donald Trump confirmed on social media that he would not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a ban on a US CBDC until the end of 2030, setting the stage for the bill to become law on Saturday. A bipartisan housing bill containing a ban on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States is set to become law as the deadline approaches for President Donald Trump to sign it. Just after midnight on Friday, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act will have been in Trump’s hands for 10 days, excluding Sundays,…

[ad_1] Last year, I recorded a 41-minute talk for incoming law students on how to approach the first month of law school.  It’s targeted at students who don’t know much about how law school works, with the hope that they can start school more informed about the weird ways of studying law.  You can watch it here:   [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Time to invest in aluminum companies. The World Cup may be over, but our quest to fix soccer goes on. Last week readers sounded off in our “how to fix soccer” survey, so let’s go through the results this week. After that, we’ve got some book recommendations for your post–World Cup reading list, and thoughts on this year’s golf major champions. Don’t miss sports coverage from Jason Russell and Reason. Far be it from us to try and fix the most popular sport in the world, but last week I…

[ad_1] Shortly after the Trump administration announced massive new tariffs on some Canadian imports on Monday, the White House’s official X account made a telling statement about the policy. “Canada imposed an unfair tariff scheme on American cars,” the post explained, before claiming that the tariffs had caused fewer cars to be imported into Canada and had been costly for American automakers. “President Trump won’t put up with Canada’s trade schemes,” it concluded. Yes, if there is one thing Donald Trump simply cannot stand, it is arbitrary, costly, protectionist trade policies. In response, Trump imposed some arbitrary, costly, and protectionist…

[ad_1] The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are having a moment: Candidates affiliated with this group are winning Democratic primaries all over the country—and that’s bad. Very, very bad. Why? Well, because their ideas for how to run the country are wrong, and dangerous, and in many cases authoritarian. We know that because we can read their plans and listen to their speeches. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Don’t Republicans call everybody who disagrees with President Donald Trump a socialist? Sure, that label as an insult has been overused before. But these people self-describe as socialists and communists—and they…

[ad_1] By the time the first official statement reached the public, the statement itself no longer mattered. Television networks were already off the air across much of the continent, mobile networks had fragmented into isolated pockets, and the internet—once assumed to be nearly indestructible—had become a collection of disconnected islands separated by an invisible wall of silence. Rumors traveled farther than verified information, speculation outran evidence, and for the first time in generations millions of people discovered how completely their understanding of the world depended on a stream of data they had always taken for granted. Historians would later argue…