While the Syria intervention lacked proper congressional authorization, constitutional considerations had nothing to do with Trump's withdrawal decision. Indeed, his administration has doubled down on Obama-era arguments asserting broad presidential authority to initiate military interventions.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office reluctantly turned over footage of shelter employees dragging, slapping, and pushing migrant children.
The suspect's previous DUI arrests didn't even put him on ICE's radar.
The officer who cooked up the story adds that he collects "a lot of great (and incredibly raw) intelligence" by reading comment threads.
In the midst of the holidays, Judge O'Connor paves the way for an appeal of his decision concluding all of the ACA is unlawful, while further demonstrating the weakness of his initial decision.
Tonal tightropes, regulatory time bombs, and a Southern soul music rivalry.
The Parkland shooting has led to policy changes, controversial court rulings, and even a free speech lawsuit.
The punishment would certainly not fit the crime.
2018 was a mixed bag, but that means there was still a lot of good news.
Two brothers were arrested at a Giants-49ers game after cursing out and flipping off the Giants players. Now they're suing.
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.
Cops supposedly smelled 25 grams of pot inside a plastic container inside a safe inside a closet 30 feet from a guy's doorstep.
Jails and prisons are punishment enough without throwing dangerous and unhealthy food into the mix.
Judge O'Connor was wrong to conclude that two individuals who would prefer not to purchase health insurance had standing to challenge the law.
Almond milk, pee tests, and the Lorax doctrine.
The man behind the "Deportation Bus" said he wanted to round up criminals. Looks like he should have started with himself.
A national strategy for arresting sex buyers and letting local cops wiretap sex workers are among the approved changes.
Challenge to ban on interstate handgun sales would be a good vehicle.
"The most significant efforts the federal government will take to date to reduce federal prison populations after decades and decades of doing the opposite."
A case to watch for both criminal justice reformers and for critics of executive overreach.
Similar cases have resulted in huge lawsuits against hospitals and police departments.
Taxpayers shell out big time to keep poor folks who haven't even been convicted of crimes behind bars.
In the absence of evidence, an innocent man was treated like a criminal.
A court rejects a clever effort to obtain President Trump's tax records
After weeks of work from advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, the Senate voted to pass the FIRST STEP Act.
No, a Texas school district did not require speech pathologist Bahia Amawi to sign a "pro-Israel oath," nor even to promise not to personally boycott Israel.
Spoiler alert: It didn't work.
Sen. Tom Cotton pushes a poison pill amendment to a vital criminal justice reform bill.
She had a history of mental illness, and was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing in July.
A Reason investigation of a notorious Texas public records loophole found 81 cases where police hid records of shootings and deaths in custody.
We continue the longstanding Volokh Conspiracy tradition of celebrating this ancient Roman holiday.
From my forthcoming book, The Digital Fourth Amendment.
Plus: Obamacare unconstitutional?
The decision says a police officer, like any other Florida resident, has a right to a pretrial hearing on his self-defense claim.
[Part of a continuing series of guest posts by Prof. Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law). -EV]
[A guest-post by Prof. Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law), a noted expert on Obamacare-related litigation. -EV]
What is the scope of the remedy in Texas v. United States?
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