Courts & Litigation

A review of Kevin Arlyck, “The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789-1825” (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Judges face an unsatisfactory menu of AI options. A secure, judiciary-controlled sandbox for testing frontier models is the better path.

A primer on how special grand juries work, what federal law actually permits them to do, and why this one might backfire.

What Congress giveth, Congress can take away.

In the seashells case, the FBI searched for proof that gangsters used “86” to mean “kill” and that Comey knew it. Now an expert says their theory is “preposterous.”

AI labs already write constitutions for their models. What they lack is a court to interpret them.