Sen. Durbin says that he "expects conservative nominees to come from this administration." How did he vote for these judicial conservatives last time? No: Gorsuch Kavanaugh Barrett Thapar Bush Newsom Barrett (CA7) Larsen Eid Bibas Katsas Grasz Willett Ho Stras Duncan

10 y/o: who is Richard Epstein? (My eyes light up, I explain) Her: I don’t think any other fourth graders have ever heard of him.

You should be reading Competition on the Merits to understand what is happening in M&A: open.substack.com/pub/competitio…

Not ChatGPT, but I asked Google Gemini about this issue, in the style of a Trump social media post. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The Click to Cancel rule was thrown out because the Khan FTC refused to follow the law and do the work legally required to support it.

Too many em dashes? What’s next? too much love? too much joy?

Sad, but not shocking, that someone as insanely qualified as Hermandorfer only gets a party-line vote. She’s clerked for 3 of the current justices. She may have her finger on SCOTUS’s pulse more than anyone else in the country.

“[F]lotillas of secretly-funded amici curiae appear before the Court and sing in conspicuous harmony”:

Fantastic choice. Congratulations, Jenn Mascott!

Jennifer Mascott is outstanding. She is a brilliant textualist, and will serve the Third Circuit well. Another excellent judicial pick by Trump.

Well done analysis as usual. As an antitrust dinosaur, I pine for the good old days, when antitrust (with rare exceptions that stood out like a sore thumb) was law enforcement aimed at protecting free economic markets from collusion or monopolistic (defined properly) conduct.

The idea that lessening supplier competition by banning discounts that reduce food expenditures will make anyone better off is antitrust fan fiction indulged by the Wu-Kanter-Khan mug set with cruel consequences for real families. open.substack.com/pub/competitio…

Today the The White House released America’s AI Action Plan to win the global race. We need to OUT-INNOVATE our competitors, BUILD AI & energy infrastructure, & EXPORT American AI around the world. Visit AI.gov

"Review all Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigations commenced under the previous administration to ensure that they do not advance theories of liability that unduly burden AI innovation."

As always, Daniel J Gilman is the one to follow on all things FTC truthonthemarket.com/2025/07/23/the…

Yesterday's debate shows that if Robinson-Patman supporters prevail the Democrats will never win another election. As politics, favoring high-priced boutiques over larger, highly competitive retailers where more than 2/3 of consumers shop is right up there with defund the police.

California's reaction to the AI Action Plan just underscores the need for a pause on state AI regulations.

The author of this op ed is lambasting Trump for permitting the sale of the exact same H20 chips that the Biden administration ok’d WHILE THE AUTHOR WAS ADVISING BIDEN ON THESE ISSUES. That’s remarkable. I guess he’s changed his mind since starting to advise Anthropic.

Some personal news, as they say. As sad as I am to leave my post as Missouri Solicitor General, I’m excited to serve the American people as a federal district court judge.