The Supreme Court rules against the LGBTQ+ community—again.
Law and Justice
When ICE Blows Through Rural America
As the surge in Minneapolis winds down, small communities in Minnesota (like Willmar) fend off more arrests and lasting impacts.
ICE Lied About Its Authority to Make Courthouse Arrests
Agents never had permission to hunt immigrants at court appointments, says the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Democratic States Seek to Block Massive TV Station Merger
The team-up of Nexstar and Tegna would cover 80 percent of U.S. households. It’s the first of several cases where states are at odds with pay-to-play federal antitrust enforcement.
States Substitute for Corrupt Feds on Antitrust
On Live Nation, Paramount–Warner Bros., and more, state attorneys general are becoming the chief antitrust enforcer. Do they have the capacity to keep going?
Leaked Documents Show a Border Patrol Remade in the Image of Gregory Bovino
Bovino’s smash-and-grab tactics are now the norm for immigration enforcement across the country.
Live Nation Settlement Spurs Chaos in Court
The deal contains a fairly useless set of conditions. More than two dozen states vow to continue fighting.
Lawmakers Debate Bill to Blackmail Sanctuary Cities
H.R. 7640 would require state and local police departments to help federal agents carry out their mass deportation drive. Democrats used a states’ rights argument to say why that’s bogus.
What You Won’t See at the Live Nation–Ticketmaster Trial
A Biden-appointed judge substantially narrowed the government’s bid to break up the music monopoly, and suppressed a few topics we’d really like to see play out on the stand.
Prediction Markets May Have Inadvertently Outed Themselves as Casinos
By intervening in individual bets, companies like Kalshi and Polymarket are not acting as neutral market makers, as they have claimed in litigation.
