Dan Chasan

To say the appellate judges seemed skeptical about the Chamber’s legal challenge would be an understatement.

Justice for war crimes is an issue that goes beyond the practical difficulty of arresting a head of state in his own country.

Washington voters have had two cracks at affirmative action, and have rejected it both times. And don't expect affirmative action to survive this SCOTUS term.

Well-intentioned or not, would Inslee's anti-lying bill have been constitutional?  Maybe.

Courts don't want to touch the issue. Congress is unlikely to go near the problem. The Supremes waved it off.

so let's take stock of how we all have wound up here and what we may expect next year.

Local advantages of our forests include the facts that "we do not have significant land conversion to agriculture" and that Northwest "forests are growing well."

Presidents like to sock it to the spotted owl and help out the timber industry while heading out the door. Latest chapter: Biden undoing a huge giveaway of lands to timber industries as Trump made his exit.

Justice Gorsuch asks, "If ensuring an informed democratic debate is the goal, how well do we serve that interest with rules that no longer merely tolerate but encourage falsehoods in quantities no one could have envisioned almost 60 years ago?"

The lawsuit sees the state of Washington doubling down on an old panacea, more hatcheries, that hasn't worked to save the orcas in the past and won't work in the future.