Robert VerBruggen
Wisconsin native, @MedillSchool alum, @NRO deputy managing editor, @FamStudies research fellow, metalhead, gamer. Dad of two. Tweets my own.
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Latest Census Bureau Surveys Do Not Agree on Size and Growth of Immigrant Population
The two Census Bureau surveys that measure the foreign-born have recently diverged in unexpected ways.
Robert VerBruggen
Interesting: CPS and ACS are diverging in their estimates of how many immigrants are in the country.
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Deaths of Atatiana Jefferson, Botham Jean show how police training emphasizes danger to cops over community
The Fort Worth officer who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson likely relied on police training that overemphasized the risk to an officer’s life while...
Robert VerBruggen
Good piece on standard training etc. If the cops weren't trained correctly it's probably lawsuit time.
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The Supreme Court Case Testing the Limits of Gorsuch’s Textualism
If the justice rules against LGBTQ protections, he’ll be admitting that, deep down, he knows his judicial philosophy is deeply flawed.
Robert VerBruggen
Original public meaning > using absurd hyper-literal "textualism" to enact policies no one ever knowingly voted for.
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Don’t Subsidize Neighborhoods Because They Were Redlined in the 1930s
Their current population is only 28 percent black.
Robert VerBruggen
On a striking new Brookings report finding that formerly redlined neighborhoods -- the ones three presidential candidates would target for aid -- are today only 28% black. Only 8% of blacks live there.
41h
Liberal Judges vs. Trump’s Immigrant-Welfare Rule
Last week’s district-court decisions against the Trump administration are bad.
Woman killed in own home when Fort Worth officer shoots her, police and witness say
Fort Worth police released body camera video Saturday of a deadly officer-involved shooting on Allen Ave. An officer shot and killed a woman in her home after a neighbor called police because a door was open.
Friday assorted links
1. More than one zebra. 2. Pastoralism and the oppression of female sexuality (pdf). 3. A.O. Scott on Sontag (NYT). 4. Russian alcohol consumption down 43% 2003-2016.
Robert VerBruggen
The paper here on pastoralism and restrictions on female sexuality looks really fascinating
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This Case, Which Resulted in a 20-Year Prison Sentence, Supposedly Showed How Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' Law Lets People Get Away With Murder
After Michael Drejka lethally shot Markeis McGlockton outside a convenience store in Clearwater, Florida, last year, the case was widely
Robert VerBruggen
An addendum here reiterating the sentence vs offense distinction: the Florida guy who got manslaughter was sentenced to twice as much time as Guyger got.
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Review: Matt Stoller's 'Goliath'
Thanks to the ascent of tech giants such as Google and Amazon, legislators, policy analysts, and pundits are taking a fresh look at antitrust law.
Did Trump Just Drastically Cut Legal Immigration?
We really don’t know how much legal immigration will fall when the policy goes into effect next month, but it won’t be two-thirds.
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Robert VerBruggen
My last sentence here was written *before* the day's judicial activism, I promise!
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Chicago Homicide Solution Rate Lowest for Blacks
Data obtained by WBEZ Radio under Illinois' open-records law show the city had 849 murders between the beginning of 2018 and this past July. When the victim was white, 47 percent of the cases were solved during those same 19 months. For Hispanics,...
Trump just quietly cut legal immigration by up to 65%
This is what immigration restrictionists have been waiting for.
Athletics and College Admissions at Harvard and Beyond
by Michael C. Dorf Last week, Federal District Judge Allison Burroughs issued a 130-page opinion rejecting a challenge to Harvard College...