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Two House Republicans have launched a full-blown attack on New York City’s leading mayoral contender, Zohran Mamdani. After polls showed Trump-endorsed Republican Cuomo falling behind in the race, the MAGA has come up with an evil plan.

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Evan Marsalli certainly put the practice in for this Buddy Holly performance

New studios housed in former New York Daily News art deco building

I to participated last Fall on a Wisconsin Law Review symposium panel on "Is the Court out of Control?," and I wrote up a short (12-page) article for that. I'm posting it in several pieces; I hope some of you find it interesting, and I also still have time to…

In Greer v. Fox Corp., decided Wednesday, Judge Laura Taylor Swain (S.D.N.Y.) largely adopted Magistrate Judge Stewart Aaron's report and recommendation from June 2021; here's an excerpt of that report and recommendation, which the District Judge adopted (and which strikes me as quite correct): The following is a summary of…

Let's move on to other variants. One looks at whether a law has any exceptions at all, and, if religious reasons are not among those exceptions, automatically applies strict scrutiny. It was proposed by Justice Kavanaugh in his dissent in Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak, and possibly embraced by…

The Supreme Court unambiguously rejected the sort of reasoning that a federal appeals court used to uphold New York's ban.

From Justice William Crain's opinion today (joined by Justices Scott Crichton, James Genovese, Jay McCallum, and Jefferson Hughes III) in State v. Spell, dealing with a prosecution for actions on March 31, 2020; the court basically applies the U.S. Supreme Court's similar decisions in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v.…