Did Trump truly repudiate torture and the murder of civilians?; A new personal jurisdiction case from the Texas Supreme Court (or ‘Killing Calder Softly’); 4th Circuit will reconsider en banc whether Md. ban on magazines and semiautomatics requires strict scrutiny; No constitutional right to engage in consensual BDSM sex;     Did Trump truly repudiate torture and the murder of civilians? He now says he will obey the law. But that is not same thing as truly reversing his position. By Ilya Somin  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   Intelligence Squared debate: Free speech is threatened on campus A Yale audience affirms that free speech is threatened on campus. By Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz  •  Read more » A new personal jurisdiction case from the Texas Supreme Court (or ‘Killing Calder Softly’) Some sensible personal jurisdiction law from the Texas Supreme Court (and another nail in the coffin for Calder v. Jones and the jurisdictional 'effects test'). By David Post  •  Read more » 4th Circuit will reconsider en banc whether Md. ban on magazines and semiautomatics requires strict scrutiny For more on the original decision, which required strict scrutiny of the ban, read David Kopel's Feb. 4 post. By Eugene Volokh  •  Read more » No constitutional right to engage in consensual BDSM sex The court relies in part on (1) the absence of a "deeply rooted history or tradition of BDSM sexual activity," (2) "the absence of a history of impermissible animus as the basis for the restriction," (3) the physical risk posed by "sexual activity that involves binding and gagging or the use of physical force such as spanking or choking," and (4) "the state's interest in the protection of vulnerable persons." By Eugene Volokh  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Recommended for you   Fact Checker Count the pinocchios. A weekly review of what's true, false or in-between. Sign Up »         Share The Volokh Conspiracy:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for updates from The Volokh Conspiracy blog. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071