BIZARRE: 2 | Mind Blowing Facts

Do Arrest Warrants Have a Diligence Requirement?

Tracing the doctrine back.

Reason · Jul 2, 2025

SCOTUS Puts Skrmetti SDP Case Out Of Its Misery

The ACLU's cert petition is denied, and several other petitions are GVR'd.

Reason · Jun 30, 2025

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Frigid cells, raw sewage in cells, and expressive activity on public beaches.

Reason · Jun 6, 2025

The Chief Justice "Facilitates" Another Shadow Docket Compromise In Noem v. Garcia

The Trump Administration didn't lose but it didn't quite win either.

Reason · Apr 11, 2025

SCOTUS to Inferior Courts: Review TROs That Function As Preliminary Injunctions

Moreover, challenges to spending belong in the Court of Federal Claims, not in Federal District Court.

Reason · Apr 4, 2025

Pardons and Autopen Signatures: A 2024 Appellate Decision Says Pardons Don't Have to Be Signed (or Even Written) at All

[UPDATE: I note a contrary argument in an update at the end of this post.]

Reason · Mar 17, 2025

Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Whether University "Bias-Response Teams" Chill Speech

Justice Thomas dissents from the Court's refusal to resolve a clear circuit split.

Reason · Mar 3, 2025

Divided Fourth Circuit Denies Partial Stay of Preliminary Injunction Against Executive Order Curtailing Birthright Citizenship

If nationwide injunctions were okay against other administrations, the Fourth Circuit see no reason they are not okay now.

Reason · Feb 28, 2025

Invoking Scalia in the Sovereign District

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed Danielle Sassoon, the Acting U.S. Attorney for SDNY, to dismiss the indictment against New… The post Invoking Scalia in the Sovereign District appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Feb 14, 2025

"These voters did nothing wrong"

The GOP candidate for state Supreme Court refuses to accept that “North Carolinians simply did not choose him"

Salon · Feb 7, 2025