Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

Jury awards $62M to Baltimore in lawsuit against firearms dealer over sale of ghost guns

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted," her attorneys wrote. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

If you care about the government trying to make sure that kids don't choke to death on their toys, read Law Dork tonight:

Core faculty member at the Center, @admccourt.bsky.social outlines four key policy recommendations to help policymakers strengthen Firearm Purchaser Licensing laws. 📘 Read the full Firearm Purchaser Licensing Model Policy Guide: publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/defaul...

The man who attacked the CDC fired more than 180 shots into the campus

this is a picture of CDC parents waiting to be reunited with their children at 11:00pm after 5 hours of lockdown

At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia." Justice Thurgood Marshall declined

Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

I’ve got a paper on whether the govt can lawfully outsource its reasoning to AI for rulemaking. TL;DR nope!

Ahhh our casebook is officially published & on the way!!! If you have any interest in teaching (or learning about!) the Second Amendment or firearms law, I hope you'll consider our casebook! Feel free to reach out with any questions about the book or the field!! www.westacademic.com/Blocher-Char...

New on FirstView: "Psychiatrists’ Awareness and Use of Voluntary Self-Prohibition as a Firearm Suicide Prevention Tool in Virginia" by Bryan Barks, Shannon Frattaroli, & Paul S. Nestadt of ‪@jhucgvs.bsky.social‬ reviews mental health professional use of VSP and SRO. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

New paper out today! Loved working with @drcrifasi.bsky.social and @kellyewroskam.bsky.social on this. We looked at public opinion on gun carrying in “sensitive locations” and found broad support, including among gun owners, for restricting guns in bars, stadiums, and protests.

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

A transgender girl housed in a male unit of a Washington, D.C., juvenile detention center has been hospitalized after sustaining multiple injuries, including a broken jaw, during an incident on July 7. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

This is a beautiful essay

JUST IN: A judge has certified a nationwide class aimed at blocking the effects of Trump's birthright citizenship order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court *allows* the Trump administration to implement large-scale layoffs and reorganization plans across the federal government, despite a pending legal challenge. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissents. #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Justice Jackson's dissent in Trump v. Casa www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Exclusive: DOGE enters the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the goal of revising or eliminating dozens of rules and gun restrictions by July 4.

In her furious dissent, Jackson writes of the Supreme Court's decision: "The project of stymying one of the country’s great civil rights laws continues." She likens today's ruling to notorious decisions after the Civil War cutting back civil rights statutes. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

BREAKING: On a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS conservatives hold that individuals have no right to sue under the "any qualified provider" provision if a state, here, South Carolina, excludes a medical provider, here, Planned Parenthood from its state's Medicaid program. Jackson, w/ Sotomayor and Kagan, dissent.

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ALLOWS states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The article frames Skrmetti as a poor strategic gamble by activists. In reality, Tennessee passed a categorical ban applicable solely to transgender adolescents which was framed in sex-based terms. The choices were (a) challenge it or (b) concede defeat in advance and abandon trans teens nationwide.

What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Grateful to the folks at the Center for Public Health Law Research (@templelegalepi.bsky.social‬) for their excellent MonQcle software, and for the opportunity to speak with them about how we used it on our recent project examining postpartum care for immigrants: phlr.temple.edu/news/2025/06...

I would say this is a nightmare, but you can wake up from nightmares.

Regs *Taps mic* Hello! I’m a former long-time civil servant turned academic. I wanna tell you some stuff. First, my service was mostly at a place called OIRA, which is an office that oversees federal regulation. I’d therefore rate myself as an above-average tea-leaf-reader for federal regs.

The 2025 Greenwald Family $5000 Award for the best research paper on gun violence/injury prevention/gun policy is accepting nominations now through July 24, 2025. Qualitative and quantitative studies from all academic disciplines are eligible. www.firearmresearchsociety.org/2025-greenwa...

Let's just pause to think about parents being forced to choose whether to be deported with their toddlers and babies (including a child with cancer) or leave them behind and the idea that this would somehow be ok if that wasn't a lie.

From JAMA Health Forum: Buprenorphine treatment during pregnancy for opioid use disorder was associated with significantly improved maternal and infant outcomes compared to no treatment. #PAS2025 https://ja.ma/3EyF00J

DOJ cancels grants for gun-violence and addiction prevention, victim advocacy This claw back of Congressionally approved funding robs communities of life-saving programs that address the top concerns of Americans - gun violence, addiction and overdoses, crime victim services + related research.

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

I will keep shouting that the Due Process Clause protects people and immigrants are, in fact, people, no matter what JD Vance says ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

BREAKING: More international graduate students at Johns Hopkins University have lost their student visas. The total is now "several dozen," up from around 12. We are the first outlet to report on this, here is what you need to know: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Attorney General Pam Bondi has created a Second Amendment Task Force at the Justice Department. In a statement, she said the task force "will combine department-wide policy and litigation resources to advance President Trump’s pro-gun agenda and protect gun owners from overreach."

The ATF announced that it is ending its zero-tolerance policy for lawbreaking gun dealers, rolling back a Biden-era crackdown that triggered the steepest increase in gun store license revocations in the agency’s history. The agency said it is also reviewing two other Biden-era policies.

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Jackson, joined by Sotomayor, has a lengthy dissent accusing the majority of prematurely intervening to butcher the law and harm public education across the country. She sees the order as an extremely dark omen. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

What an extraordinary way to start an opinion. (Spoiler: Judge Amy Berman Jackson holds that she must take action now to prevent the unlawful dissolution of the CFPB.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration effort to regulate “ghost gun” kits that allow people to easily obtain parts needed to assemble firearms from online sellers: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

I....have never seen something like this before. Cannot believe that a judge would think this is proper. Good on some of his colleagues for calling it out. More should have.

With special guest experts, @admccourt.bsky.social and @meganwalshgvp.bsky.social! Listen here or wherever you stream your podcasts: open.spotify.com/show/36nhq7i...

When it comes to gun rights, is age really just a number? Hosts of the Sufficiently Analogous podcast take us in on a closer look at the growing tension between minimum age firearms laws and the right to keep and bear arms. Listen to the new episode: sufficientlyanalogous.libsyn.com/an-episode-f...

We asked @drcrifasi.bsky.social, Co-director, and @admccourt.bsky.social, core faculty member at the Center FAQs about regulating the public carry of firearms + the risks associated with permitless carry and Stand Your Ground laws. Read the new Q&A: publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...