The Fed Can't Fight Inflation Alone. Will Congress Do Its Part? Lawmakers have to show they'll back the national debt with future fiscal surpluses, which means reining in government spending. Reason · Sep 17
Memphis Task Force Caught on Video Arresting Activist Already Suing It for First Amendment Retaliation The ACLU says Hunter Demster's arrest shows a continuing campaign of intimidation and retaliation by the Memphis Safe Task Force. Reason · Sep 17
ICE's Missing Miscarriage Data Leave Questions About Pregnancy Care in Detention The Trump administration has reached record-breaking levels of immigration arrests amid accusations of medical neglect, including among pregnant women. Reason · Sep 17
Why the Right Should Celebrate the UT-Austin Football Photo For decades, conservative and libertarian legal activists worked to ban race preferences in admissions. They won. Reason · Sep 17
New York Wants To Scrap Testing Requirements While School Spending Soars This week, the state's educational leaders moved to eliminate Regents exam requirements for high school students. Reason · Sep 17
Not Using A Smartphone Burdens Others It is increasingly difficult to function in society without a phone. So I'll turn mine off. Reason · Sep 17
Seven Federal Judges From Minnesota Talk To The N.Y. Times About Trump Administration “It’s the rule of law. If you don’t have it, you have either anarchy or you have authoritarianism. You have Russia or you have China or you have North Korea.” Reason · Sep 17
A Russia Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Vast New Tariff Powers The bill, which passed the House and Senate, would let Trump impose tariffs up to 100 percent on certain countries, but it fails to properly define which. Reason · Sep 17
Disability Accommodations "That Fundamentally Change Court Proceedings, Could Alter the Court's Substantive Decisions," … "or affect any other parties' due process rights ... are not reasonable." Reason · Sep 17
Best Credit in the World Plus: Rent freeze setback, AI misalignment, Bolshevik ridiculousness, and more... Reason · Sep 17
Strip Searches Generally Aren't Allowed as Searches Incident to Arrest, Third Circuit Holds, thus deepening a circuit split. (Note that strip searches are generally allowed when and if the arrestee is placed in the general population of the jail.) Reason · Sep 17
Free Speech Unmuted: Spoiler Alert: Can You Get Sued For Revealing A Plot Point? A deepish dive into how copyright law and the First Amendment interact. Reason · Sep 17
Thomas and Alito Are More Reliable Votes for Trump Than His Own Supreme Court Appointees The conservative legal movement may be winning big at the Supreme Court. But Trump is not. Reason · Sep 17
Brickbat: Swing, Swing Two sisters, ages 10 and 12, ended up in court after a playground swing broke while they were playing at Veterans… The post Brickbat: Swing, Swing appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 17
Reason · Sep 17 Nearly 50% of West Bank Palestinians Says Israel Does Not Have A Right To Exist What "From The River To The Sea" Actually Means
Reason · Sep 16 Use of Flock Cameras Is Not a Fourth Amendment "Search," District Court Rules The first post-Chatrie ruling on the question.
Reason · Sep 16 Montreal Economic Institute Webinar on Legal Challenges to the Trump Tariffs Against Canadian Goods I will be one of the speakers.
Reason · Sep 16 A Federal Judge Enjoins DHS From Threatening To Prosecute a Critic for Constitutionally Protected Speech After David Streever castigated ICE's acting director in an email, investigators delivered a "warning notice" saying he "may be in violation of federal law."
Reason · Sep 16 DOJ Says Workers at L.A. Homeless Nonprofits Spent Tax Dollars on Vacations, Nightclubs, Bail Three people in the Los Angeles area have been charged with fraud related to misappropriation of homelessness funds.
Reason · Sep 16 Biden Pardoned Maduro's Fixer. He Just Pleaded Guilty to New Charges and Agreed To Forfeit $195 Million. Alex Saab admitted to profiting from food and medicine contracts and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Reason · Sep 16 Pentagon Auditors Say the Iran War Has Cost $33 Billion. The Real Price Tag Is Far Higher. The Congressional Budget Office says the inflationary consequences of the war will be felt well into 2027.
Reason · Sep 16 AI Could Make Our Lives Better. So Why Are We Trying To Stop It? Anthropic's CEO wants federal regulation that would slow down AI (and his competitors' innovations). Has that ever worked?
Reason · Sep 16 The Justification for New Time Limits on Student Visas 'Borders on the Absurd,' a Federal Judge Says Although the impact of the DHS rule "is likely to be catastrophic," a George W. Bush appointee writes, the government's rationale is "exceptionally weak."
Reason · Sep 16 Defamation via Songs and AI-Generated Video? U Tenn Coach's Claim Can Go Forward "[D]efendant purportedly posted more than 20 videos ... attacking plaintiff's character with 'blatantly false allegations of wrongdoing' and 'highly offensive and demeaning fake [AI] videos.'"
Reason · Sep 16 Firing of Employee for Kirk-Murder-Related Post Wasn't a Clear First Amendment Violation, so the individual defendants are entitled to qualified immunity, a court rules (citing cases where employees were fired for right-wing speech that many had likewise found offensive).