RARE PHOTOS: 4 - The Real Truth

Oregon Court Strikes Down Trump's Federalization of National Guard

Judge Immergut's opinion is worth a look, not least because she was a Trump appointee with strong Republican credentials

Reason · Oct 6, 2025

The Ninth Circuit Appoints Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to Defend a Police Officer's Excessive Force Conviction …

... and also allows victim's attorney Caree Harper and me to defend the conviction.

Reason · Aug 27, 2025

The Justice Department's Dubious Attempt to Erase a Police Officer's Federal Excessive Force Conviction

I've teamed up with well-regarded civil rights lawyer, Caree Harper, to fight the Department's effort to vacate L.A. Sheriff's Department Officer Trevor Kirk's conviction.

Reason · Aug 4, 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

Classroom commandments, the FBI's Most Wanted, and a phone book artifice.

Reason · Jun 27, 2025

The Ninth Circuit's Flawed Decision Upholding Trump's Federalization of the California National Guard

The ruling gets several important issues right - and one big one wrong.

Reason · Jun 20, 2025

Judge Grants TRO Against President Trump's Federalizing California National Guard [FURTHER UPDATE: Ninth Circuit Grants Stay]

The order is stayed until noon tomorrow (June 13), and I expect the federal government will ask the Ninth Circuit and, if necessary, the Supreme Court for a further emergency stay.

Reason · Jun 13, 2025

Justices Gorsuch and Thomas Dissent from Court's Declining to Hear Apache Religious Freedom Case

From today's dissent from denial of certiorari by Justice Gorsuch, joined by Justice Thomas, in Apache Stronghold v. U.S.: For… The post Justices Gorsuch and Thomas Dissent from Court's Declining to Hear Apache Religious Freedom Case appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · May 27, 2025

Circuit Justice Kagan Never Bothered Calling For A Reply In Trump v. AFGE

The District Court succeeded its TRO with a PI, rendering the government's application moot.

Reason · May 25, 2025

Donald Trump asks courts to ‘blindly trust’ his word about deportations, but one California judge has had enough

Courts may yet curb Trump's worst tendencies.

We Got This Covered · May 16, 2025