• The Framers knew what they were doing: don’t abolish midterm elections [John O. McGinnis, Law and Liberty]
• Rhode Island has elected a new Democratic governor, Gina Raimondo, with public-employment reformist credentials. But is it ready to fix its structural barriers to economic growth? [Aaron Renn, City Journal; more from Renn at Urbanophile here, here, and here; a different view from Justin Katz, Anchor Rising]
• New Andy Pincus paper for U.S. Chamber on government-agency “litigation swarm” tactics [Institute for Legal Reform, more]
• Guns ‘n’ strippers: when happens when FOIA/public records requests run into Bill of Rights concerns [Eugene Volokh]
• “Three Convicted of Conspiracy to Defraud Gulf Oil Spill Fund” [FBI]
• New book by Judge Robert Katzmann on statute-drafting [James Maxeiner, Common Good]
• TCPA: “L.A. Lakers ‘Showtime’ Threatened by Class Action Over Text Messages” [Faces of Lawsuit Abuse]

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