Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions
An eggregrious price fixing scheme, a tear gas accident, and a post-SWAT raid code inspection.
An eggregrious price fixing scheme, a tear gas accident, and a post-SWAT raid code inspection.
World's fourth largest country -- and largest Muslim country -- had long been seen as tolerant on such matters, but that has been changing.
The court holds that Lawrence v. Texas limits government restrictions on extramarital sex.
Tomorrow's Soho Forum/Reason debate asks whether well-intentioned laws to protect victims do more harm than good.
Amicus brief in Supreme Court cert. petition argues that Alameda County, Calif., ban on new gun stores violates the Second Amendment.
Meanwhile, drunk driving and vehicular assault by officers are not firing offenses in Hudson County.
Paternalistic nudging in action
And Donald Trump just might be the president to give ICE free rein.
Reason/Soho Forum debate in New York looks at the unintended consequences of a popular mandate. Tickets available or watch online.
Our president thinks that Rep. Nunes will go down in history as "a great American." He is wrong.
Families should never consent to have school resource officers search kids' phones.
The FBI's disappointing surveillance of Carter Page illustrates the difficulty of implicating the president in illegal collusion.
A guest-post from two authors who have commented heavily (and influentially) on the Emoluments Clauses litigation against President Trump; more to come later this week.
In a series of protests, strip club workers and their allies are pushing back against abusive policing.
I'm delighted to report that the District Court agreed with our position.
Hot cells, effluent injections, and illegal downloading.
Interesting provisions in some state supreme courts -- but are they constitutional when applied to claims that statutes violate the federal Constitution?
Governments have gone to great effort to keep the sources and methods of their death penalty regimes secret.
ISIS supporter Joshua Van Haften "also believes, for example, that Britain's Prince William is the Antichrist, that people can use numerology to predict the future, and that most Western political leaders are closet Satanists."
The state uses a panel of partisan officials with absolute discretion to determine who gets to vote again
Minneapolis is being transformed into a police state.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the president's role in writing an ass-covering statement that was misleading but not illegal.
"Without this information, we're all left in the dark."
...by the Illinois Supreme Court in a decision this morning.
Restrictionists are inflaming public opinion to justify a harsh crackdown
Gorsuch advances another property rights theory of the Fourth Amendment that Alito rejects.
A divided D.C. Circuit holds Congress may insulate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Presidential Control. Will the Supreme Court agree?
Retroactivity is a powerful tool we don't use often enough.
Did DOJ actually need to disclose who funded the Steele dossier? Very likely not.
Several commentators (myself included) continue the debate over Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles' important new book.
"We will embark on reforming our prisons to help former inmates who have served their time get a second chance."
Jonathan Chait's accusations to the contrary ignore a great deal of the actual libertarian reaction to the president's policies. But some libertarians are indeed too soft on both Trump and right-wing nationalism generally.