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Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn  v. Cuomo opinion, the court voted 5–4 to enjoin enforcement of a New York rule concerning occupancy limits for religious services. Now the court has again stepped in, with two more unsigned orders, to strike down Colorado and New Jersey restrictions. The rulings highlight a paradox: The justices have granted wide leeway to states that fail to enact measures that adequately protect the rights of people in custody, who have no way to escape an epidemic of death in jails and prisons. Yet at the same time, the justices have equally aggressively overturne...

Perhaps you’ve heard in recent days of the extent to which Florida’s government has limited public health data about the COVID-19 pandemic at the expense of the health of the state’s residents. Indeed, Florida’s government, under the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has provided an object lesson during this pandemic in the how both whistleblower protection statutes and the First Amendment fail to provide adequate protection to government employees who want to blow the whistle. Advertisement Over the past several months, the DeSantis administration has engaged in a variety of stratagem...

Biden Won’t Abolish ICE. Can He Fix It? ICE headquarters in D.C. on July 17. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images for the full episode. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement became the face of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. It was ICE agents who carried out family separation at the border, ICE leaders who engineered some of the largest workplace immigration raids in a decade. And unlike, say, Customs and Border Protection, ICE agents were everywhere—and increasingly butting heads with sanctuary cities and states. When Donald Trump first took office, the head of IC...

Now that a Democrat is set to move into the White House, the Republican Party, on cue, is deeply concerned with government spending. One place, the incoming Biden administration might be able to help them out in pinching pennies is with Trump’s pet project— the wall. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been meeting with the Biden transition team about possible next steps when it comes to the farcical barrier and estimates, if President-elect Joe Biden pulls the plug on the whole thing on Inauguration Day, the U.S. government would save $2.6 billion.

. Those shell casings came from the gun found in the defendants’ car. That was, in paraphrase, the testimony of a forensic expert in a case that resulted in the conviction of two young men in Brooklyn in 2009. We know about that case because one of us (David) was on the jury. The expert gave the impression that the possibility of a mismatch was infinitesimally small. The defense didn’t even bother to argue that point. And there wasn’t a single question asked about the forensic testimony during jury deliberations. That is how these things often go. Expert testimony is treated as gospel. ...