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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Tirzah Duren |Will Rinehart |Nick Hafen |Jonah Goldberg
The new Congress can help shape the structure of online ecosystems to better serve consumers. Published November 27, 2024 In 1996, a court split over platform liability for content moderation resulted in the creation of Section 230, which protected online platforms’ rights to moderate content without the risk of liability for that content.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jessica Gavora |Nick Hafen |Audrey Baker |Jesse Singal
How did Title IX, the law historically associated with providing women and girls more opportunity to participate in sports, become the cudgel the Biden-Harris administration used to allow biological boys to compete on girls sports teams? The story of how this happened goes a long way to explaining how Donald Trump won a second term as president of the United States this month. Title IX was passed in 1972 in the spirit of the second-wave feminism that was popular at the time.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Chris Stirewalt |Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib |Nick Hafen
Piggly Wiggly punditry. By and Published October 3, 2024 Recording live from the Cosmo the Wonder Dog Memorial Studio in the catacombs of the American Enterprise Institute, it’s the rankest pundits east of the Mississippi: Jonah Goldberg and Chris Stirewalt! Chris is back in Remnant action and ready to talk Tim Walz’s anxieties, grocery store monopolies, and J.D. Vance’s personality disorder.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib |Nick Hafen
'Attacks on the court's legitimacy are dangerous, undermining public confidence in the court, and imperiling the rule of law.' By and Published October 3, 2024 Kannon Shanmugam, head of Paul-Weiss’ Supreme Court practice and friend of the pod, gave a speech recently pushing back against critics who question the judiciary’s legitimacy. He joins Sarah and David to discuss the importance of trust in institutions to the rule of law. The full speech follows.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Hafen |Will Rinehart |Peter Gattuso |Anna Kriebel
The government’s latest case against the tech giant centers on its alleged dominance of online advertising. Published October 3, 2024 Last week, Google concluded its defense in United States v. Google LLC, a case brought by the Justice Department accusing the tech giant of antitrust violations in its online advertising business, which accounted for $237 billion of the company’s 2023 revenue of $307 billion.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
aol.com | Nick Hafen
October 3, 2024 at 1:43 AMLast week, Google concluded its defense in United States v. Google LLC, a case brought by the Justice Department accusing the tech giant of antitrust violations in its online advertising business, which accounted for $237 billion of the company’s 2023 revenue of $307 billion. The parties will now file written summaries of the key facts in the case and present closing arguments in late November.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Nick Hafen |Chris Stirewalt
Sarah Isgur is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in northern Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2019, she had worked in every branch of the federal government and on three presidential campaigns. When Sarah is not hosting podcasts or writing newsletters, she’s probably sending uplifting stories about spiders to Jonah, who only pretends to love all animals. David French is a columnist for the New York Times. He’s a former senior editor of The Dispatch.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Hafen |John Mccormack |Keith E. Whittington |Adam White
Published August 13, 2024 When the Supreme Court begins its new term in the fall, it will hear arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a federal government challenge of a Tennessee law restricting the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for treating gender dysphoria in minors. The court will decide whether the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment prohibits states from enacting such legislation.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nick Hafen
On March 25, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s H.B. 3, titled “Online Protection for Minors,” placing significant restrictions on minors’ use of social media. The law prohibits children under the age of 14 from having social media accounts and allows 14- and 15-year-olds to have accounts only with parental permission. Proponents of the bill argue it will prevent harm to minors, while opponents say it’s overreaching and unconstitutionally infringes on minors’ and adults’ free speech rights.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Nick Hafen
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Wednesday in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce, which could significantly affect how administrative agencies make and enforce federal law. The cases concern a decades-old legal precedent—commonly referred to as Chevron deference—through which federal courts grant federal agencies discretion over interpretations of their own authority, so long as there is ambiguity in the authorizing statute.
