Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions; Sex discrimination and the transgender bathroom case; Audio edition of “Democracy and Political Ignorance”; A setback for First Amendment protection for anonymous speech; Was it legal for the FBI to expand the Weiner email search to target Hillary Clinton’s emails?;
 
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Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions
Plagiarism at Harvard Law, the 11th Circuit reins in an administrative court, and no protection for off-campus speech.
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Sex discrimination and the transgender bathroom case
Denying transgender students access to the bathrooms of their choice is sex discrimination. But the same is true of all sex segregation in bathroom facilities.
 
Audio edition of “Democracy and Political Ignorance”
The audio version of my book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter is now available just in time for the end game of a presidential election in which public ignorance has played an even bigger role than in most others. I would like to thank Stanford University Press for arranging the audio …
 
A setback for First Amendment protection for anonymous speech
A recent decision by the Illinois Supreme Court undermines the First Amendment protection for anonymous online communication.
 
Was it legal for the FBI to expand the Weiner email search to target Hillary Clinton’s emails?
Comey's announcement stunned the country, but it also raises some serious Fourth Amendment questions.
 
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