Can you hold copyright in federal law?; Poll shows over one third of Americans don’t know “Obamacare” and the “Affordable Care Act” are the same thing; Trump incorrectly says ‘the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years’; A misguided attack on Neal Katyal; Prof. Michael McConnell on Judge Neil Gorsuch and executive power; Looking for tech advice: Editing an RSS feed;     Can you hold copyright in federal law? Can private parties assert copyright in provisions of federal law? The DC district court says "Yes." By David Post  •  Read more » Poll shows over one third of Americans don’t know “Obamacare” and the “Affordable Care Act” are the same thing The result is consistent with extensive evidence of widespread public ignorance about Obamacare and other important issues. By Ilya Somin  •  Read more »   Trump incorrectly says ‘the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years’ "I used to use that -- I'd say that in a speech and everybody was surprised, because the press doesn't tell it like it is." [UPDATE: It looks like Trump's statement may have been based on the 2014 to 2015 murder rate increase, 10.8%, being the highest since 1967-68 -- but that's very different from the murder rate being the highest, given that it's about half the actual peaks.] By Eugene Volokh  •  Read more »   A misguided attack on Neal Katyal When a Supreme Court attorney writes an op-ed supporting a Supreme Court nominee, how much disclosure is required? By Jonathan H. Adler  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Prof. Michael McConnell on Judge Neil Gorsuch and executive power "[T]he scope of executive power ... arguably ... will be the most prominent Supreme Court issue of the coming decade. Not only will there be high-profile contests involving the ever-controversial President Donald Trump, but there will be even more cases involving the ever-increasing authority of bureaucratic agencies to govern our lives without congressional say-so or real democratic accountability." By Eugene Volokh  •  Read more » Looking for tech advice: Editing an RSS feed An easy online service that lets me create a new RSS feed from an old one but edit the titles to include author names -- any suggestions? By Eugene Volokh  •  Read more »   Stephen Sachs on the wrong way to criticize originalism The problem with judging originalism by its consequences, as Cass Sunstein would have us do By Will Baude  •  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. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071