The Belated Backlash Against Flock Cameras Americans are starting to recognize the dangers of pervasive surveillance by automated license plate readers. Reason · Aug 31
Brickbat: Burning Rubber The California Energy Commission (CEC) unanimously approved new tire-efficiency rules that are expected to ban about 70 percent of the replacement… The post Brickbat: Burning Rubber appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 31
New York Times Recycles Same Old Story About Northern District of Texas Yet the article inexplicably makes no mention of judge shopping in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Reason · Aug 30
What J.D. Vance Gets Wrong About Hamilton (and Markets and Milton Friedman) The Vice President's argument for more governmental intervention in the economy is based upon a morass of misunderstandings. Reason · Aug 30
An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare Recently, Justice Jackson warned about a "Kafkaesque nightmare" at the Supreme Court. Well, I had my own. Reason · Aug 30
Inside Venezuela's El Helicoide Prison: How Dissident Jesús Armas Endured Torture and Outlasted Maduro For helping prove that Maduro lost the 2024 election, Jesús Armas spent more than a year in Venezuela’s most-feared prison. He’s lucky it wasn’t more. Reason · Aug 30
First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:… The post First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 29
Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations Violate the First Amendment The decision goes further than other similar recent rulings. Reason · Aug 29
Lawmakers Want To Stop Kids From Nicknaming Their Pokémon The Safer GAMING Act would silence minors in every online game by default—and violate the First Amendment. Reason · Aug 29
9/11 Turbocharged America's Worst Foreign Policy Impulses—but Didn't Change Its Direction The United States' shift toward aggressive interventionism was well underway before the 2001 attacks. Reason · Aug 29
Milo Yiannopoulos Wanted Millions Deported. He Didn't Mean Himself. "I mean bad immigrants," Yiannopoulos said in a 2016 interview with Joe Rogan. "I don't mean handsome, charming, successful, blonde-haired British immigrants." Reason · Aug 28
Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Remove N.Y. Hush Money Non-Reporting Prosecution to Federal Court Came Too Late From the long opinion today by Judge Alvin Hellerstein (S.D.N.Y.) in People v. Trump: Defendant Donald J. Trump, President of… The post Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Remove N.Y. Hush Money Non-Reporting Prosecution to Federal Court Came Too Late appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 28
The Fourth Amendment and Laws Requiring Video Recording Inside Stores A new Ninth Circuit ruling raises a number of hard issues. Reason · Aug 28
The CIA Is Making AI-Generated Reports for Local Police The CIA has been using artificial intelligence to write “open source intelligence” analyses, which are being distributed to local police via DHS “fusion centers,” according to documents obtained by Reason. Reason · Aug 28
Reason · Aug 28 Judge Says Trump's Clampdown on Anthropic Violates the First Amendment A judge ruled the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was an unlawful, “arbitrary,” and “capricious” decision made to punish Anthropic.
Reason · Aug 28 Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Fabricated identities, fictitious daycares, and made-up laws.
Reason · Aug 28 What the Twin Revolts Against Flock and Data Centers Tell Us About the Power and Risks of Populism What the simultaneous revolts against Flock and data centers can tell us about the power and risks of populism
Reason · Aug 28 "This Case Begins with a Viral Video" (and Goes on to Involve "the Anti-Doxing League") From today's decision by Judge Kyle Dudek (M.D. Fla.) in Noshirvan v. Couture (for a 2023 decision stemming from the… The post "This Case Begins with a Viral Video" (and Goes on to Involve "the Anti-Doxing League") appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 28 Elon Musk's X Loses First Amendment Challenge to New York's 'Stop Hiding Hate Act' Musk's X Corp., along with other social media companies operating in the state, must disclose whether and how it defines hate speech and disinformation.
Reason · Aug 28 AI Companies Are Destroying Books. That's Not Nearly as Scary as It Sounds. Destructively scanning books is making information more accessible to the masses.
Reason · Aug 28 The Math on Trump's Haitian Deportation Flights Doesn't Add Up The Trump administration created 330,000 new illegal immigrants by revoking TPS from Haitians. It plans to deport just 10,400 per year.
Reason · Aug 28 No, Marijuana Legalization Didn't Fill Emergency Rooms With Stoned Drivers We dissected some of the deeply flawed studies favored by drug warriors.
Reason · Aug 28 Democrats Are Undoing California's Pension Reforms. Why Are Republicans Going Along With It? Pension changes passed in 2011 have saved California taxpayers from a fiscal crisis, but public sector unions are now pushing to undo them.
Reason · Aug 28 Haidt's Moment Plus: The scourge of scromiting, blaming air traffic control, and more...
Reason · Aug 28 Canada Should Ignore Trump's Protectionism and Unilaterally Enact Free Trade U.S. tariffs hurt Americans. Retaliatory tariffs will hurt Canadians.