The Latest Breaking News from the Fifth Circuit

The controversial new law would allow Texas law enforcement officers and judges to arrest and deport people in the country illegally, powers that have traditionally belonged to the federal government.

The Shadow Docket giveth, The Shadow Docket taketh away

The worst offender is not Jim Ho, but Carl Stewart.

The center of the Court wants to push back on temporary administrative stays and the Fifth Circuit.

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

The government is entitled to try to persuade social media to take down posts, but not to coerce them to do so.

I pass along this comment I received from a well-known attorney in Texas who clerked on both the federal District Court level and at the Fifth Circuit. I suspect this attorney's views are widely shared: The memo to the judiciary has now become available, but that does not address the…

Philip Hamburger on How to Understand this Free Speech Case

Final decisions, accidental strip searches, and puppycide.

Jurisdictional bollards, standingripemootness, and a pretty good en banc grant.

Perhaps Governor Abbott will flout a directive from the Supreme Court in a future case, but reports of Texas "defying" the Supreme Court are bunk, and many making such claims should know better.