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Episode 440 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Plus: The editors consider the ongoing debt ceiling drama and answer a listener question about ending the war on drugs.

"Active bystandership" training aims to overcome the pressures that discourage police officers from intervening when their colleagues use excessive force.

"Comprehensive and accurate records are critical if patterns and causes of harm are going to be identified and corrected," said an attorney representing Louisiana inmates.

Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation that will provide scholarships to K-12 students who choose nonpublic education.

Plus: Minnesota moves to protect reproductive freedom, how government thwarts a relatively inexpensive housing option, and more…

"I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker."

Report author: “The COVID‐19 pandemic was a catastrophe for human freedom.”

1/30/1939: Justice Felix Frankfurter takes oath.

Addis, Louisiana, police officer David Cauthron has been charged with two counts of negligent homicide and one count of negligent injuring for his role in a high-speed chase on New Year's Eve that left two teens dead. The chase started after a man stole a…

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"They don’t care about being invited to elite parties in Georgetown.”

Annual inflation was reported at 88 percent in October, up from 50 percent in January 2022.

1/29/1923: Justice Edward Sanford takes oath.  

News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.

The Proper Role of History and Tradition

Will a petition from a physician bring the USDA to its senses?

1/28/1916: President Wilson nominates Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court. He would be confirmed on June 1, 1916.

"I think the Democratic Party has severely underestimated how many people like me there are," says the 1986 USA Gymnastics national champion.

The five police officers involved in the deadly encounter have been charged with Nichols' murder.

"The evidence is sufficient to raise [but not to resolve] serious questions on the merits of Plaintiff's claim that Defendant stabin blocked him on account of his expression of a viewpoint."

The Vienna Green Party had demanded a scheduled performance of the reunited heavy metal band be canceled because of a 2016 incident in which singer Phil Anselmo threw out a Nazi salute.

The state's "arbitrary requirement to house all male death row prisoners in permanent solitary confinement does not promote safety and security, is inconsistent with correctional best practices, and serves no penological purpose," the lawsuit claims.

"I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is."

Bogus arrests, bogus charges, and bogus seizures.

Economists Lawrence H. White and Frederic Mishkin debate whether the Federal Reserve should be replaced with free market institutions.

One federal judge thought the state's new restrictions on medical advice were clear, while another saw a hopeless muddle.

Sen. Rand Paul says Republicans "have to give up the sacred cow" of military spending in order to make a deal that will address the debt ceiling and balance the budget.

The White House's idea of using Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to adopt rent control faces numerous legal and practical hurdles.

Economists Lawrence H. White and Frederic Mishkin debate whether the Federal Reserve should be replaced with free market institutions.