The year is winding down, but there’s still plenty to blog on!
Perhaps the biggest news of the weekend—after Standing Rock protests mirror Pacific indigenous rights and 2,000 veterans were to head to Sanding Rock to give protesters a break—was the Government won’t permit oil pipeline under Missouri River. But the company isn’t backing down yet.
And in other news:
- Trump nominated Carson to lead U.S. housing, urban policy
- House committee feels the heat after Breitbart tweet
- Trump Sealed Carrier Deal With Mix of Threat and Incentive
- One year after the San Bernardino attack, police offer a possible motive as questions still linger
- 3D-Printed Guns Hit the Courts
- Judges Order New NC Legislative Maps, Special Election
- Agree/disagree: How Kinky and Non-Traditional Parents are Punished by Family Courts
- Senate votes to extend sanctions against Iran
- Obamacare’s end may be $20 billion hit to California
- Because this is necessary, apparently, Popehat provides a Lawsplainer: Why Flag Burning Matters, And How It Relates To Crush Videos
- With Cuba tweet, Trump begins conducting foreign policy via Twitter
- Adblock Plus wins its 6th court case, brought by Der Spiegel
- Coal executives “overlooked” $100 million to try to escape environmental cleanup costs
- A New Yorker profile on the attorney fighting revenge porn
- ATL wonders: Why Is The Electoral College Constitutional?
- Supreme Court asks government’s view on mine spill suit
- Why AT&T and other carriers oppose a program for low-income internet subsidies
- Agree/disagree: Expanded overtime rule unlikely to ever take effect, employment lawyers say
- AP: Trump rollback of Obama climate agenda may prove challenging
- Trump faces challenges in separating from business say legal experts
- Texas Will Require Burial of Aborted Fetuses
- “Britain, stop thinking you can rely on Canada for a Brexit trade deal. We’re not that keen on doing business with you.”
- Silicon Valley is moving towards a regional minimum wage?
- Paraguay Finally Investigates Decades-Old Cases of Abuse Against Young Girls
- Hallucinogenic drugs could soon work ‘like a surgical intervention’ for mental illness—if the FDA keeps up with it
- Jury finds Brandon Hall guilty of election fraud
- Why minimum wage is the wrong conversation
- UC won’t assist federal agents in immigration actions against students
- Reddit to crack down on abuse after CEO is targeted
- TV: How the Investigatory Powers Act and Rule 41 Make It Easy for the Government to Spy
- Starting January 20, Donald Trump Can Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages to the Entire Nation?
- WSJ has Five Questions About Donald Trump’s Immigration Plans
- WiFi and the coming IoT invasion
- No Charges For Cop Who Fatally Shot Keith Lamont Scott
- Why Bitcoin Buyers Don’t Need to Panic Over IRS Probe of Coinbase
- AT&T Just Showed Us What The Death Of Net Neutrality Is Going To Look Like
- Supreme Court Skeptical Of Texas Standards For Intellectual Disability In Death Cases // and SCOTUS Blog’s argument preview
- Amazon to Crack Down on Counterfeit Goods Sold on its Marketplace
- Neil Young wants Obama to end ‘violence’ at protest at Standing Rock
- Do Your Family Members Have a Right to Your Genetic Code?
- In Europe, Is Uber a Transportation Service or a Digital Platform?
- The Supreme Court is set to review a death sentence grounded in fiction
- Obamacare is probably toast. And a lot of poor, white Trump voters will get hurt by it.
- Uber in Artificial-Intelligence Drive After Buying Startup
- Attorney General says Brexit trigger case goes to heart of UK constitution