When they entered the White House, the budget deficit was a pandemic-influenced $2.3 trillion, and it was set to fall to $905 billion by 2024. It's now twice what it was supposed to be.
South Carolina bans all media interviews with incarcerated people, a policy the state's ACLU chapter says is the most restrictive in the country and infringes on its First Amendment rights.
"Right now, we need to get ourselves at least to a balanced budget, and that involves cutting a lot of the third rails of American politics," the Libertarian presidential nominee tells Reason.
Federal housing officials allege a New Hampshire landlord violated the Fair Housing Act for refusing to show a unit to two women with emotional support dogs.
The Supreme Court is considering whether a rule targeting "ghost guns" exceeds the agency's statutory authority.
Ryan Walters' strict stipulations make it clear he’s steering Oklahoma schools to purchase Donald Trump’s Bibles at a hefty cost.
Why is making spirits for personal use any of the government’s business in the first place?
A recent pair of panels looking at how nationwide injunctions impact federal regulatory programs.
That just isn't happening in the United States, no matter what Donald Trump keeps claiming.
Progressives are trying to fix the errors of the past, but they're ignoring the best solution: More robust property rights.
Many citizens of the land of the free are hooked on government checks.
No one knows how many federal crimes there are, the Supreme Court justice notes in Over Ruled.
Daniel Horwitz often represents people illegally silenced by the government. This time he says a court violated his First Amendment rights when it gagged him from publicly speaking about a troubled state prison.
"The judge soon learned that, in a recorded conversation between defense counsel and the defendant, the attorney had referred to the age, race, political affiliation, and gender of the court's judges, and suggested that the court 'should look a little bit more like the people that are in front of them.' The attorney also suggested that the defendant would not receive a fair trial from the court's judges, who are a different race and gender from the defendant. Finally, the attorney used a pejorative term, drawing on racial and gender stereotypes, to refer to the complainant."
A federal judge ruled that the law was overbroad and violated the First Amendment.
While congressmen hold performative hearings to win political points, they delegate policymaking to the administrative.
Tim Walz is wrong to insist that it would "keep our dignity about how we treat other people."
The broad ban on AI-generated political content is clearly an affront to the First Amendment.
The education chapter is written by Williamson Evers, and the corporate law chapter by Robert T. Miller.
A federal judge rejected the officers' claims of qualified immunity.
Conservatives blame Proposition 47 (2014) for higher rates of shoplifting in the state, but the real story is more complicated.
The IRS fines hostages for taxes they couldn't pay while they were detained. A bill in Congress is trying to fix this.
He returned S.B. 961 to the California Senate for all the wrong reasons.
The IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act would provide outreach and training to Homeland Security Investigations staff.
Absolute immunity protects prosecutors even when they commit serious misconduct on the job.
Some people really think nonalcoholic beer is a gateway to alcoholism.
Despite billions of taxpayer dollars spent on mental illness research, Cobenfy was developed by a private biopharmaceutical company.
The decision is a reminder that independent reporters are still protected by the same First Amendment as journalists in legacy media.
A panel examining what is in store for October Term 2024.
The Court's decision to overturn Chevron should be seen as more of a "course correction" than a revolution. (Updated with Video.)
Randy Barnett developed an influential form of constitutional originalism.
Judge Joseph Bianco’s decision emphasizes that constitutional rights and protections belong to individuals, not groups.
Two brothers are asking the Supreme Court to stop their town from using eminent domain to steal their land for an empty field.
If the former president wins the 2024 race, the circumstances he would inherit are far more challenging, and several of his policy ideas are destructive.
For hundreds of years, a felony has been defined not by the action itself but by how we punish it.
The budget could be balanced by cutting just six pennies from every dollar the government spends. It used to require even less.
Lower taxes are better taxes, but they should be part of well-considered plans.
Empires with more room for cultural difference were more successful, anthropologist Thomas Barfield argues.
An interesting question divides a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Despite promises to pass orderly budgets, the House GOP is poised to approve yet another stopgap spending measure.
A prominent appellate practitioner responds to recent attacks on the justices and the Court.
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