[ad_1] A follow-on to my post on the en banc Fourth Circuit’s sharp divisions on the Fourth Amendment’s exigent-circumstances doctrine: In addition to joining the main dissent in United States v. Curry, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote a solo dissent in which he expressed his concerns that the “predictive policing” that enabled officers to arrive

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr listens during a law enforcement briefing in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) In a Thursday speech, Attorney General William Barr cautioned American companies that do business in China against violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which requires Americans lobbying on

[ad_1] Juul vape cartridges are sold at a shop in Atlanta, Ga., September 26, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) The data suggest that anti-vaping campaigns do nothing to decrease usage. Anyone who has raised teenagers knows that forbidding an activity is a sure way to pique their curiosity. Yet this is the approach American policymakers and activists

[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters) A nation-centered foreign policy need not neglect unalienable rights. Today’s State Department report on inalienable rights may mark a turning point in the long debate over whether the United States should emphasize

[ad_1] Sign at a protest against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in Los Angeles, Calif., June 8, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The second-largest teachers union in the U.S. called to defund the police and place a moratorium on charter schools in a “research paper” recommending that Los Angeles city schools

[ad_1] President Donald Trump walks toward reporters as he departs for travel to Atlanta, Georgia from the White House in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) On the menu today: President Trump demotes his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, which should dispel the persistent belief that all of the polls are wildly wrong and that

[ad_1] Brad Parscale attends a campaign rally for President Donald Trump in Bossier City, La., November 14, 2019. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Trump replaced his 2020 campaign manager on Wednesday evening as numerous polls showed the incumbent trailing behind Democratic rival Joe Biden. Trump promoted Bill Stepien, a longtime aide, to campaign manager while Brad Parscale

[ad_1] A cargo ship passes underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York in 2014. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Even for national defense, the Jones Act is indefensible. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f you’ve never heard of the Jones Act, there’s a good reason. It stays mostly hidden in the deepest part of “the swamp” of America’s special-interest

[ad_1] (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The liberal-progressive view looks, at first glance, sensible enough, but there are three problems with this framework. The Supreme Court’s decisions in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue and Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru offered a one-two punch of victories for religious schools under the religion clauses of the First

[ad_1] LGBTQ activists and supporters hold a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in a major LGBT rights case on whether a federal anti-discrimination law that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sex covers gay and transgender employees in Washington, U.S., October 8, 2019. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) SCOTUS marks the ‘secular’

[ad_1] A cherub figure with a book, symbolizing learning, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., July 2, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/File Photo/Reuters) Some questions have been resolved, but much remains unknown. In 2017, a public-school teacher in Florida named Amanda Bressack told fifth-grade students that their teacher should be referred to as “Mx.” Bressack

[ad_1] In an odd turn of events, the Supreme Court is likely to decide another Religious Freedom Restoration Act claim as soon as today, despite the end of the Term last week. The case—Hartkemeyer v. Barr—involves two spiritual advisers, one Buddhist and one Catholic, who plan to provide last rites in the execution chamber to

[ad_1] (New York City Police Dept./Twitter) A number of New York City police officers including the NYPD department chief were injured at a George Floyd protest on the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday morning. Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, was admitted to a local hospital with “non-life threatening injuries,” an NYPD

[ad_1] North Carolina guard Christian Keeling (55) shoots the ball against Virginia Tech guard Hunter Cattoor (0) during the first half at Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C., March 10, 2020. (Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports) Brutal economic realities are about to catch up to big-time NCAA programs. Last week, Stanford announced that the coming season —

[ad_1] Alabama Governor Kay Ivey speaks to the media after being sworn in in Montgomery, Ala., April 2017. (Marvin Gentry/Reuters) Alabama governor Kay Ivey, a Republican, issued a statewide order for residents to wear face masks in public spaces. The order, which will take effect on Thursday, follows a surge in coronavirus cases in the

[ad_1] People visit the Hagia Sophia, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 10, 2020. (Murad Sezer/Reuters) President Erdogan’s power play should not go unanswered by the liberal-democratic West. The Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is a purpose-built structure, and its purpose is the worship of the Christian God. This particular function is not incidental to the

[ad_1] Signs at the Huawei offices in Reading, England. (Toby Melville/Reuters) Parliament will vote in the fall on a proposal to ban purchases from the Chinese telecom firm and to remove its existing equipment. The British government has announced plans to bar Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from building and operating its 5G network infrastructure, reversing

[ad_1] Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks at a National Sheriffs’ Association opioid roundtable in Washington, D.C., May 3, 2018 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) There was a point in early 2017 when Jeff Sessions looked like a shrewd political genius. He had been a moderately well-known longtime senator trying to enact tougher restrictions on immigration with little

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about his plans for tackling climate change during a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., July 14, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Joe Biden on Tuesday outlined a $2 trillion four-year plan to create economic opportunities and strengthen infrastructure through investments in clean energy technologies. Speaking in

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his coronavirus poster (Brendan McDermid/Reuters; poster image via Twitter/@NYGovCuomo) In the wake of crisis, New York has not come out on top. Have you seen Andrew Cuomo’s poster? The New York governor’s pandemic-themed design was apparently intended as a celebration of the state’s effort against coronavirus. It’s difficult

[ad_1] Economist Paul Krugman in 2012 (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) It has been many years since Krugman was a man of nuance, but many of his recent takes have been especially simplistic. This Monday, Paul Krugman published an opinion piece in the New York Times titled “America Drank Away Its Children’s Future,” about America’s coronavirus response. This

[ad_1] Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., November 30, 2018. (Jim Young/Reuters) Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for “a possible infection,” a Supreme Court spokesperson said on Tuesday. Ginsburg was initially taken to a hospital in Washington, D.C., on Monday

[ad_1] Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addresses the audience at the metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) As he spreads anti-Semitism in the black community, the Nation of Islam hatemonger flies below the media’s radar. At a moment in American cultural history when even a hint

[ad_1] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) speaks with a reporter on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) revealed on Tuesday that he is attempting to declassify an FBI memo describing an interview with a crucial source for the Steele dossier, whose comments undermined the dossier’s assertions.

[ad_1] Members of the news media gather outside Manhattan Federal Court, during the arraignment hearing of Ghislaine Maxwell in New York, July 14, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges she recruited and groomed girls for the financier to sexually abuse more than two decades ago.  The

[ad_1] President Trump shakes hands with a nun of the Little Sisters of The Poor during a National Day of Prayer event at the White House in Washington D.C., May 4, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Cataloguing some of the errors in a New York Times column on the Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania. Kathryn

[ad_1] Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 11, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The White House is considering rolling back some visa restrictions on foreign students whose colleges have moved to online instruction because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Last

[ad_1] The Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2020 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The case had been presented to Chief Justice John Roberts, who referred it to the full court. This morning, the Justice Department carried out the execution by lethal injection of a white supremacist convicted of brutally murdering a husband, wife, and their

[ad_1] NYPD officers detain protesters for violating curfew during demonstrations in reaction to the death of George Floyd in New York, N.Y., June 2, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Leaders in the black community are calling on the New York Police Department to bring back the plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit that was eliminated last month as shootings and murders

[ad_1] A nurse works at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., May 6, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The government’s extensive coronavirus spending pushed the U.S. budget deficit to a record high $3 trillion for the 12 months ending with June, the Treasury Department announced Monday. Federal spending topped $1.1