A 3rd Circuit judge says the decision approving New Jersey's 10-round limit treats the right to arms less seriously than other constitutional rights.
Parliament passes a bill at the last possible moment to give officials the power to weaken encryption.
New rules ban erotic art, talk of shared sexual interests, kink groups, and anything that "encourages sexual encounters between adults."
It's been dubbed "NYC's Anti-Airdrop Dick Pic Law," but the bill is much broader than that.
The statute is "unconstitutionally overbroad," the appeals court says, because it criminalizes "a substantial amount of protected expression."
As the prison-industrial complex starts to crumble, get ready for the social-media-surveillance complex to replace it.
Tech companies are compiling incredibly detailed dossiers about you.
#MeToo has come for the popular astrophysicist. Let's withhold judgement.
Meanwhile, the officers involved can't get their stories straight.
Research shows a fifth of its users seek out sexual images. But the sharing site is now part of a massive media conglomerate.
Plus: the First Amendment problems with prosecuting Wikileaks and the trans troops ban is dealt another blow.
A creative legal theory, roundly rejected.
Sophisticated firearms are becoming ever-easier to illicitly manufacture in basic workshops, says a new report. We'll even show you how to do it!
Even the Obama administration recognized it didn't have the authority to ban bump stocks.
Police chief calls it a "spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it."
Killing Section 230 would only lead web platforms to ban even more speech.
"I had to add a content warning or else."
It is unconstitutional for the government to discriminate against organizations based on their viewpoint.
Emantic Bradford Jr. may have had a gun. But he didn't deserve to die.
As Facebook's supposed ideological allies unfriend the social media giant, the tech industry is learning that there are no permanent allegiances in politics.
A federal judge overturns a state ban on telling customers they can bring their own beer or wine.
The snitch crusade is ostensibly about making sure hot women aren't making money off their hotness without giving the government a cut.
One of America's top social scientists on what has changed since he sat down with Reason 38 years ago.
Kelly says the social media site offered no explanation, which would violate its own policies.
Nadine Strossen, Eugene Volokh, and Stephanie Slade discuss freedom of speech, assembly, and religion at Reason's 50th anniversary.
So holds a federal court, concluding that such e-mails with photos of gun crime victims, coupled with statements such as "Thought you should see a few photos of handiwork of the assault rifles you support," were protected by the First Amendment.
Clicking the "wrong" link can get you interrogated by the authorities-and the situation may soon get worse.
Censoring politicians' racist, sexist, and abhorrent behavior on social media does a big favor to racist, sexist, and abhorrent politicians.
Yet under Chinese law, some rapists get only three years behind bars.
The Arizona Supreme Court got it right: categorical denials of bail to persons charged with sexual assault violates the Constitution.
The statute in that case was a funding condition on federal money given to universities -- but the Court's decision held that the government could impose the same rule categorically, whether or not the universities got funds.
I'd love to have people's comments this week, since I owe the journal a final draft Saturday the 24th. [UPDATE: Just to be clear, the article aims to provide a coherent framework for understanding the current precedents, not to come up with new rules from scratch.]
Cases in which a majority of the Court fell down on the job.
While Swalwell insists it was 'sarcasm' it's bad form to reply to a citizen aggrieved at openly threatening constitutional rights connected with self and civil defense with implied threat of mass murder.
The latest trial balloon from the perennial White House Hamlet contains more lead than the paint of a New York public school.
What should the culture of free speech, free expression, and ownership look like on our social media platforms?
Cross-examination, stricter definition of misconduct, and greater flexibility
Plus: the NRA versus New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and CNN versus the White House
The latest in the Brummer v. Wey (TheBlot) litigation, brought by Prof. Christopher Brummer, a former Obama nominee for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
"Any other result would have undermined the free speech and academic freedom rights of all Rutgers faculty members."
Plus: Trump endorses sentencing reform and Bitcoin's value continues to fall.
Justice Anthony Kennedy's bogus 2002 claim figures prominently in defenses of an Arizona bail ban.
New from Reason: a look into what Javier Milei has accomplished and what it will take to make the most of Argentina’s window for real change. Out now for subscribers.
