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
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
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.
Reason · Oct 2 Salman Rushdie Attempted Murder Case: Court Upholds Jury Verdict … finding defendant was acting under direction of Hezbollah.
Reason · Oct 2 Jews and Discrimination Based on Religion or Based on Ethnicity? The Civil Rights of Act of 1866 (42 U.S.C. § 1981) was interpreted in the late 1960s as prohibiting discrimination… The post Jews and Discrimination Based on Religion or Based on Ethnicity? appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Oct 2 Defamation by Retroactive Scrubbing of Coach from Roster? From Monday's decision by Judge Samantha Elliott (D.N.H.) in Wood v. Dartmouth College: Plaintiff Justin Wood was Dartmouth University's Men's… The post Defamation by Retroactive Scrubbing of Coach from Roster? appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Oct 2 California Lawmakers Passed a Pension Bomb. Newsom Was Right To Veto It. Newsom echoes former Gov. Jerry Brown and acts like Sacramento's last adult.
Reason · Oct 2 Women Are Better Armed Than Ever The technology of self-defense is more widely distributed than in the past.
Reason · Oct 2 Review: RFK Jr.'s YouTube Cooking Show Is Both Informative and Unsettling The Real Food Show features chefs making dishes alongside the health and human services secretary.
Reason · Oct 2 Review: The Fugitive Owl Who Captured New York's Attention HBO's Wild Inside documentary recalls Flaco, who broke free from Central Park Zoo and learned to fly.