Alito Hints That The Dobbs Knew A Member of the Majority Would Be Subject To Assassination This strongly suggests Alito does not think a conservative leaked to "lock in" the votes. Reason · 1h ago
Federal Circuit Again Excludes Judge Newman From Group Photo The stealth impeachment continues. Reason · 2h ago
Libertarianism and Democracy Matt Zwolinski is right to emphasize that democracy is generally superior to authoritarianism, but wrong to suggest it should be a central libertarian commitment. Moreover, recent events highlight the validity and importance of longstanding libertarian critiques of democracy's weaknesses. Reason · 7h ago
A Conversation with "One of the Most Influential Supreme Court Justices of Our Time" Jan Crawford's profile of Justice Alito based upon the interviews that will air on CBS News. Reason · 8h ago
Police Allegedly Destroyed $37,000 of Legal Hemp. Georgia's Supreme Court Just Upended 60 Years of Precedent. The ruling has major implications for property owners when the government ruins their possessions in the exercise of "police power." Reason · 17h ago
The Millennial Internet Is Dead, and Politicians Killed It. Social media use is declining, and what's left has shifted from conversation to passive scrolling. Reason · 18h ago
Comparing the Credentials Of Three Decades of Fifth Circuit Nominees The Butler didn't do it. Reason · 23h ago
Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. Colleges From Judge Tanya Chutkan (D.D.C.) Thursday evening in Ass'n of Am. Univ. v. U.S. Dep't of Ed.: Section 117 of… The post Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. Colleges appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Oct 3
Justice Alito on Deciding When to Retire from the Court Justice Samuel Alito offers candid comments to Jan Crawford of CBS News. Reason · Oct 3
Mamdani Promised To Freeze the Rent. Now His Rent Freeze Is in Court. A lawsuit alleges New York City's Rent Guidelines Board broke the law by arbitrarily predetermining the outcome. Reason · Oct 3
Minneapolis Activists Used Encrypted Group Chats To Outmaneuver ICE. Now the Feds Want To Prosecute Them. "I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason. Reason · Oct 3
2 Lawsuits Cast Further Doubt on the Claim That ICE Agent Jonathan Ross Killed Renée Good in Self-Defense According to complaints filed by Good's family, Ross was not in any danger when he fired three shots into her car. Reason · Oct 2
Rand Paul Was Right To Block the Senate's Attempt To Censor the Internet The bill’s “duty of care” could pressure platforms to suppress lawful speech in the name of protecting children. Reason · Oct 2
Would a Firing Squad Have Been More 'Humane' for Christa Pike? Lethal injection dresses up the death penalty as something clinical and civilized. But the goal is the same: to kill someone. Reason · Oct 2
Reason · Oct 2 Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Water rights absurdities, ponderous parking ordinances, and fast trains.
Reason · Oct 2 A Court Rules That San Francisco's Empty Home Tax Is Illegal San Francisco's tax on vacant homes is bad policy. Now it's also bad law.
Reason · Oct 2 Justice Gorsuch on Abuse of Emergency Powers In a recent talk, he decried a situation where "everything is an emergency."
Reason · Oct 2 Want To Stop the Iran War? Don't Pay the Bill Congress can stop Trump's Iran war by failing to fund it.
Reason · Oct 2 Trump Criticizes Fox News for Daring To Show Clips of Democrats The president sees even straight news coverage as an act of betrayal.
Reason · Oct 2 Letitia James Has Already Suggested the Cornell 7 Are Guilty New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor who has already implied that she sides with Jane Doe.
Reason · Oct 2 How Would A Judge Butler Actually Affect The Fifth Circuit? (Updated) I would prefer Judge Southwick to have one vote rather than two votes.
Reason · Oct 2 I Asked the White House's New AI Chatbot About Tariffs. It Told the Truth. America.gov says that tariffs "can raise the price buyers pay. Domestic goods that compete with those imports can also become more expensive."
Reason · Oct 2 Todd Butler Compared Street Preacher In Supreme Court Case To "Domestic Terrorism" The case was a dry dispute about jurisdiction. There was no reason to impugn the preacher's faith.
Reason · Oct 2 Tom Cruise's New Climate Disaster Movie, Digger, Is a Disaster A high-concept misfire deliberately designed to test the patience of viewers.
Reason · Oct 2 Red Mass Explosive Man Asked S. Ct. to "Remove Arizona from the United States" and "Declare It a 'Foreign Enemy'" From a Justice Department press release Monday: Louis Geri, 42, of Vineland, New Jersey, was sentenced today in U.S. District… The post Red Mass Explosive Man Asked S. Ct. to "Remove Arizona from the United States" and "Declare It a 'Foreign Enemy'" appeared first on Reason Magazine.