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21 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Time for courts to strike it down [Radley Balko, earlier] “First Amendment challenge to broad gag order on family court litigants” [Eugene Volokh] Federally funded Indiana U. program to monitor political opinion on Twitter didn’t much like being monitored itself by critics [Free Beacon, earlier (project "intensely if covertly political")] Holocaust denial laws abridge the freedom of speech. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 2:14 pm by Michael Lowe
Yesterday, Radley Balko pointed out as much in his WaPo piece, “How much civil asset forfeiture will Holder’s new policy actually prevent? [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 7:36 am by Jeff Welty
Radley Balko notes in this analysis that a key question is whether “the hundreds of multijurisdictional drug task forces around the country” count as joint operations. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 4:15 pm
While there is no doubt that the new policy is a step in the right direction, Radley Balko has an insightful post raising questions about exactly how far it goes, and whether it might be partially undermined by loopholes. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 3:54 pm by Walter Olson
Radley Balko praises the order as “a big deal” and notes that if effective, it “will stop local police agencies from circumventing state laws aimed at reining them in. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 5:54 am by SHG
Also at WaPo, Radley Balko hits the highs and lows of this new twist: The program won’t end civil asset forfeiture abuses entirely, but it will stop local police agencies from circumventing state laws aimed at reining them in. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 5:13 am by Walter Olson
Radley Balko wrote a 2003 Cato Policy Analysis, “Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking“. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [The Open File on Indiana prosecutorial misconduct case via Radley Balko] “Lawyers for California Attorney General Kamala Harris argued releasing non-violent inmates early would harm efforts to fight California wildfires. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 5:03 am by SHG
This was an article about that Blue hater, Radley Balko. who had the audacity to write “Once again: police work is not getting more dangerous. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Many states have liberalized rules on family homeschooling, now comes the backlash from proponents of tighter regulation [NY Times] Kansas Supreme Court decrees higher school spending, estimated taxpayer cost upwards of $500 million [Greg Weiner, Law and Liberty, Wichita Eagle; earlier] After all, judicially directed school munificence worked so well in nearby Kansas City, Missouri [via @David_Boaz] Scaring ourselves to death: the insanity of school active shooter drills [Radley… [read post]
4 Jan 2015, 5:47 am by SHG
  If that’s not bad enough, Radley Balko, one time Agitator who went legit, will be paywalled as well, but that’s another story. [read post]
3 Jan 2015, 12:51 pm by Bill Otis
To read the NYT, Eric Holder's latest musings, or practically any libertarian blog (Radley Balko's coming first to mind, although most anything in Reason magazine will do), one would think that there is no "war on the police," but only concerned citizens mindful of America's stained, racist past and yearning for less thuggish law enforcement and fairer treatment for minorities, particularly young black men.Only there is a war on police. [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Lists of lists, if not indeed lists of lists of lists: Lenore Skenazy picks worst school safety overreaction cases of the year [Reason] and worst nanny state cases [Huffington Post] Radley Balko, “Horrifying civil liberties predictions for 2015″, and you won’t need to read far to get the joke [Washington Post] Feds probe NY Speaker Sheldon Silver over pay from law firm — not his big personal injury firm, but an obscure firm that handles tax certiorari… [read post]
20 Dec 2014, 9:16 am by Walter Olson
More: Radley Balko (MSNBC on video versus police-union account of Tamir Rice shooting in Cleveland); Cleveland Plain Dealer (woes of officer in earlier police job). [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 6:29 am by Walter Olson
Radley Balko (@radleybalko) December 3, 2014 Be skeptical of "untaxed cigarettes" myth. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 5:12 am by SHG
  You’ve paid close attention to Radley Balko’s detailed discussion of body cams, and even read a bit about them here. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 3:42 am by SHG
  The culture has created a warrior mentality, as Radley Balko pointed out so well, and deadly cynicism. [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Louis County” [Radley Balko, related (Better Together report), earlier here, here from Balko, etc.] [read post]
16 Nov 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
Parrillo's Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (Yale University Press) is reviewed alongside Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession (Doubleday) and Radley Balko's Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Force (PublicAffairs).You can read about Michael A. [read post]