The much-anticipated reargument of this important property rights case did not make clear what the Court will do, but overall did not go as well for the property rights side as the first argument did. It is still unclear, however, which way potentially crucial swing voter Justice Kavanaugh will lean.
Compelled use of facial and finger recognition features runs afoul of the Fifth Amendment.
The category is defined by politicians, who focus on looks rather than function.
But the decision seems wrong as a matter of federal constitutional law, because the law regulates only local governments -- and local governments lack any federal constitutional rights against their states.
Among other things, it would call for investigators to review three years' worth of a would-be gun buyer's social media postings for "excessive discriminatory content."
Your new national ID is hacker-bait that complicates journeys but won't make you any safer.
Come from England or Japan for a short visit? Feel free to shoot at a range! Return on a student visa? Federal felony for you (and friends who take you) if you go shooting. Unless, of course, you've gotten a hunting license -- even if the range visit is completely unrelated to the hunting.
I'm trying to get access to the papers in an Orange County (Florida) case in which someone got a a restraining order that he is using to try to get online criticism deindexed by Google.
Blame normal TSA incompetence, not the government shutdown, for allowing a passenger to smuggle a firearm through security.
The former Attorney General has made it much for difficult for the DOJ to crack down on police departments accused of civil rights violations.
An interesting opinion from an Illinois appellate judge, arguing against the Illinois rule under which it's a crime to possess a gun with a defaced serial number even if one has no reason to know that it's defaced.
Federal law bans felons, illegal aliens, and others from knowingly possessing guns (or ammunition); does the government also have to show that the defendant knew he was a felon, illegal alien, or within some other prohibited category? [UPDATE: Last paragraph corrected.]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how they look.
Congressional Democrats want to put more cameras and sensors on private property.
The latest version of the senator's "assault weapon" ban targets products that highlight the irrationality of "assault weapon" bans.
It's "important to be clear about how rare this behavior is on social platforms," researchers say.
The policy is very popular and a top priority for House Democrats, but it would hurt innocent people without doing much to improve public safety.
What to expect at LibertyCon, the annual meeting of the largest libertarian student group on the planet (plus how to get 40 percent off registration).
The Cato Institute and Institute for Justice team up to fight for the right to publish a book attacking behavior by the SEC.
Other circuit courts have reached the same result, though not all have used the same reasoning.
Only if you like the cause they serve, according to supporters of laws that target the anti-Israel BDS movement
Author and sex worker Maggie McNeill was suspended from Twitter Tuesday for a hyperbolic comment about burning the White House down.
Universities must allow students to cross-examine accusers and witnesses, the ruling states.
On Monday, a federal appeals court considered Grindr's guilt in a case involving app-based impersonators.
Control freaks have turned to dishonest rulemaking and outright censorship in doomed but still dangerous efforts to take people's weapons away.
Plus: The TSA mask is slipping and government shutdown goes on.
The President's recent threat to use "the military version of eminent domain" to seize property for his border wall is just the tip of a larger iceberg of policies and legal positions inimical to constitutional property rights.
Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation insist that law violates the First Amendment, Commerce Clause, and Supremacy Clause.
Campaign finance legislation is always about inhibiting someone's speech.
Currently, most Florida public school teachers can't carry in the classroom.
A ballot initiative that took effect this week bans sales to adults younger than 21.
A debate today with Professor Chris Walker
Social media platforms have every right to do whatever the hell they want, but they shouldn't really do much speech policing at all.
She was expelled and filed a federal suit. Texas' attorney general ignored the Constitution and defended the school.
A Barberton judge just sentenced a woman to jail, house arrest, and a year without social media for repeating a rumor about a pellet gun at school.
J.D. Tuccille, Lisa Snell, and Rob Long discuss the democratization of everything at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
A federal lawsuit says the state is violating the Second Amendment by refusing to recognize the restoration of firearm rights by courts in other states.
Santa Claus is coming to town with all his liquids in a single quart-sized baggie.
Police officers, who can now charge people who own 15-round magazines with a felony, were outraged when it looked like they might receive equal treatment.
This might not be what lawmakers had in mind when they created this program.
The Supreme Court, though, has suggested that such laws, if narrow enough, are constitutional.
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