Did COVID-19 Lockdowns Reach Back in Time to Affect Behavior Before They Were Imposed?
Trends in Massachusetts highlight the importance of voluntary changes in behavior.
Month: June 2020
The Roberts Court Slowly Inters Justice Kennedy's Ephemeral "Jurisprudence of Doubt"
Blue June buries Boumediene, Whole Woman's Health, and Trinity Lutheran Footnote 3.
Marsha P. Johnson Probably Didn't Start Stonewall, and Might Not Have Been Trans. Does It Matter?
The media and activists are using revisionist history of the Stonewall Riots to fit their intersectional narrative.
Stock Market Suspiciously Healthy. The Federal Reserve Does All It Can to Keep Economic Reality From Setting In.
The government is doing what it can to help out Big Money.
A Rosy End to Blue June
Is Espinoza enough to make conservatives look past the Chief's never-ending chess match?
Joe Biden's COVID Response Plan: More Money, More Masks, More Testing
Given the current context of the race and the pandemic, Biden's specific plans likely don't matter so much as the impression that he at least has a plan.
House of Representatives Votes to Give D.C. Statehood
The House voted to recognize the District of Columbia as a state, but many obstacles still lie ahead.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Montana Blaine Amendment Barring State Aid to Religious Schools
The decision is an important victory against government discrimination on the basis of religion.
Supreme Court Delivers Big Win for School Choice and Religious Liberty Advocates
SCOTUS rules 5-4 in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue.
Inmate Coronavirus Infections Skyrocket in California
A third of prisoners at San Quentin have gotten COVID-19, most in just the last two weeks.
When One Federal Agency Sues Another in Federal Court
If the U.S. Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission disagree, does the case belong in federal court?
11 Redacted Seconds of Video of Fatal 2014 Drug Bust Undermine Florida Cops' Official Story
Previously unreleased video shows Jerry Brown didn't have much time to react before Pasco County deputies shot and killed him.
Defendant "Not Likely to Emerge From … His [5-Year] Sentence … with a Thoughtful and Pacific Approach to His Fellow Man"
A new three-strikes sentencing opinion from a California court.
Partisan Hypocrisy on Display in Supreme Court Ruling on Anti-Prostitution Pledge and the First Amendment
Can the government compel speech? For Supreme Court justices, that seems to depend on the content of that speech.
Supreme Court Declares Another Abortion Law Unconstitutional
Plus: More states pause reopening, Oregon measure to legalize psilocybin moves forward, and more...
These Women Received a Death Sentence for Being Sick In Prison
A Reason investigation has identified three deaths from alleged medical neglect at FCI Aliceville, a federal women's prison. Current and former inmates say it's routine, but the Bureau of Prisons won't talk about it.
The Chief Justices Battle over the Removal Power
Roberts and Kagan present two very different conceptions of the separation of powers.
Blue June Glooms On
The Chief feints left on abortion, tiptoes to the right on the CFPB, and Thomas is still waiting for Godot
Kneeling in the Church of Social Justice
America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward.
Trump Said 'You Don't Have To Drop Bombs on Everybody.' He's Right.
The president’s accidental vision of a war-free second term.
Revenge of the Coronavirus
As COVID-19 case numbers surge, governors are rolling back re-openings, and Democratic leaders are backing national mask bans.
Reason TV Video on the Case for Letting Hong Kong Refugees Migrate to the United States
In the video, I also make the case for extending the same rights to other victims of Chinese government oppression.
Were COVID-19 Lockdowns Worth the Cost?
The evidence suggests Americans are right to wonder.
A SWAT Team Blew Up This Family's House While Chasing a Shoplifter. The Supreme Court Won't Hear the Case.
And no, it wasn't the shoplifter's home.
COVID-19 Pool Testing Is a Stopgap Measure To Track and Curb the Pandemic
It could quickly amplify coronavirus testing by tenfold.
Expelled Student's Sex Discrimination Claim Against Oberlin College Can Go Forward
"[The Oberlin] panel's decision was arguably inexplicable. Per the terms of Oberlin's Policy, intoxication does not negate consent—only 'incapacitation' does.... And the record here provided no apparent basis for a finding that Roe [was incapacitated]."
Supreme Court Rules Against Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Says Agency's Format 'Clashes With Constitutional Structure'
SCOTUS rules 5–4 in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Hong Kong Is in Trouble. Let Its People Escape China by Coming to America.
It would be smart foreign policy and beneficial to the U.S. economy.
My Jotwell Review of Lindsay Wiley and Steve Vladeck's "Coronavirus, Civil Liberties, and the Courts"
They argue that courts should engage in "normal," not specially deferential judicial review of coronavirus emergency measures.
Supreme Court Won't Stop Pending Federal Executions
The federal government hasn’t executed a prisoner since 2003. We may see three killed in July.
Why John Roberts Joined the Supreme Court's Democratic Appointees in an Abortion Case
Roberts dissented in 2016 when SCOTUS struck down an abortion law. What changed this time around?
Interstate Travel Restrictions Are Just Political Posturing
We should feel free to ignore travel restrictions imposed by political clowns using the public as pawns in their feuds.
With Chief in Charge, SCOTUS Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Law and Eliminates CFPB Independence (Updated)
The Chief Justice provides the pivotal vote in the June Medical Services abortion case and Seila Law v. CFPB.
As New Lockdowns Loom, How Did We Get Here Again So Quickly?
Plus: E.U. considers travel restrictions for Americans, more...
Reopen the Schools!
These big disruptions to the education system are not necessary to fight COVID-19.
Mask Mandates and Broccoli Mandates
The opposition to mask-mandates harkens back to the Obamacare challenge.
CDC Antibody Studies Confirm Huge Gap Between COVID-19 Infections and Known Cases
The difference implies that the virus is much less deadly than it looks, but it also makes contact tracing a daunting challenge.
"These Days … It Is Safest to Be Circumspect and Cautious"
"To survive as a ... professor requires constant self-censorship and compromise, especially in the humanities .... Resistance comes at a cost .... [H]er colleague ..., a law professor, was interrogated and suspended from teaching after publishing a series of essays critical of ...."
My New Atlantic Article on Trump's Coronavirus Immigration Bans
The article explains why these policies, which made made America more closed to immigration than at any previous time in history, are both harmful and a dangerous executive power grab.
