The Perverse Incentives for Snitch-Tagging Teachers Who Criticized Charlie Kirk
Under current First Amendment jurisprudence, more targeted harassment means it's more constitutional to fire a government worker.
Under current First Amendment jurisprudence, more targeted harassment means it's more constitutional to fire a government worker.
The posts were "downplaying the severity of the COVID pandemic, promoting the use of ivermectin over a vaccine, and criticizing the government's response to the pandemic."
The attorney general is now getting called out by fellow conservatives.
Majorities on the left and on the right denounce political violence and its celebration.
Reason’s Jacob Sullum traces the shared failures of drug prohibition and gun laws, showing how both undermine civil liberties, racial justice, and commonsense safety.
The president's new approach to drug law enforcement represents a stark departure from military norms and criminal justice principles.
Gloria Gaynor had almost finished paying off her house in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. But she will not see a dime in equity.
In her memoir, the former NSA contractor details her journey from top secret security clearance to federal prison.
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A vast cancel culture campaign is a poor way to honor his legacy.
"Outside of certain narrow and presently inapplicable circumstances, federal lawsuits are public proceedings and members of the public are free to comment on them."
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All liberty involves tradeoffs. So does repressing liberty.
The alleged shooter was turned in by his family and roommates while the surveillance state remained clueless.
Freedom of speech cannot reliably protect conservatives unless it also protects people they despise.
The phrases are a mix of anti-fascist sentiments and irony-poisoned internet memes.
"Can civilization survive now that we have been made witness to the interior lives of others?"
George Retes was denied access to an attorney, wasn’t allowed to make a phone call, was not presented to a judge, and was put in an isolation cell before being released with no charges.
Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk and how political violence is reshaping the national climate.
"The Supreme Court has recently confirmed that the Free Exercise Clause does not prohibit a state from providing 'a strictly secular education in its public schools'"—and, the court held, that extends to California charter schools and their parental "home-based direct instruction approved by the school and coordinated, evaluated, and supervised by state-certified teachers."
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, who once opposed government jawboning, now says people should be banned from both social media and public life over their posts.
We should welcome renunciations of violence from those who disagree with Kirk, and dispute nonsense across the political spectrum.
A unanimous three-judge panel concluded that "no historical tradition supports" the 1987 law.
"[T]he only evidence of disruption pointed to by Defendants is the fact that a teacher felt uncomfortable at a session designed with the expectation that participants would feel uncomfortable."
Equating drug trafficking with armed aggression, the president asserts the authority to kill anyone he perceives as a threat to "our most vital national interests."
The justice’s stance on immigration enforcement is undermined by the facts of the case before him.
Journalist and activist Lenore Skenazy explains how fear and over-parenting left kids more anxious and less independent, and and how a movement to restore that independence is gaining ground.
Such a gun ban is not authorized by statute or allowed by the Second Amendment.
Two years after the state attorney general charged dozens of protesters with racketeering, a judge found the case unconvincing.
Such drag shows are protected unless they fit within the (fairly narrow) category of obscenity, which is limited to certain material that depicts sexual conduct (not just cross-dressing).
The president claims The Wall Street Journal inflicted "billions of dollars" in reputational damage by confirming a well-established relationship.
California tried to use drones to find illegal marijuana operations, but they found building code violations instead.
FIRE is one of the leading free speech advocacy and litigation groups in the country, and Greg is not only its long-time head but also coauthor of several books, including Coddling of the American Mind (with psychologist Jonathan Haidt) and War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail (with law professor and former ACLU President Nadine Strossen).