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Biden & GA’s 2 Dem senators all advocated boycotting Georgia & hurting thousands of Atlanta workers & small businesses (many of them African American). Gee, what possibly could be the political downside for the Dem politicians?

For now, #SCOTUS has sent the Deray Mckesson litigation over street-blocking protest liability to the Louisiana Supreme Court to clarify its tort rules. After that happens, what factors are likely to go into determining liability? [ @VolokhSpeech ]

There's all the difference in the world between dropping a legal anvil on NRA insiders because you want to vindicate the interests of the org's donors, and demanding the group's dissolution precisely because you don't. /5

Listen with care. Many of those praising @NewYorkStateAG 's legal attack on @NRA are already talking about wanting to take down the org's influence. Even if James's office is smart enough to distance itself from such talk, it's an important clue. /2

An outrageous show of government legal force with the aim of suppressing advocacy on issues of public concern. This is as much an assault on the First as on the Second Amendment. #CatoSCOTUS

Here's my big announcement of the morning: after more than 20 years, I'll be ceasing publication of @overlawyered at the end of the month.

"A Quarter Century of Cato Research on Police Accountability" -- my link-rich survey of @CatoInstitute work on qualified immunity, warrior-cop tactics and militarization, police unions, LEOBOR, racial disparities, the right to film cops, and much more

A legal explainer: "Are the Lockdown Orders Constitutional?" My first appearance at @ArcDigi

Today’s misery of shuttered shops, schools, and workplaces is mostly not being caused by the political faction you’re against. It’s being caused by the virus.

“I don’t believe in charities,” Mayor Sanders told a United Way kickoff in 1981. Per a @nytimes account, he "went on to take issue with the 'fundamental concepts on which charities are based,' asserting that gov't should instead be the provider of social services." #NeverBernie