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The Reason Roundtable weighs in on the latest coronavirus policy debate.
The Reason Roundtable weighs in on the latest coronavirus policy debate.
"Using a bait-and-switch tactic, a detective posing as [eighteen-year-old] Amber chatted and flirted with DeMare online and via text message for four days as an adult before revealing on the fifth day that she was actually a minor."
An analysis finds that Trump is both more stingy and more self-serving than his predecessors in how he has used the pardon power to date
Stone was set to report to federal prison to serve 40 months for lying to Congress and witness tampering.
Distorted partisan descriptions of the Department of Education changes could be doing real damage.
Abolishing tariffs would have short- and long-term benefits for the economy.
The chief justice has managed to infuriate every major political faction.
The article critiques the majority decision, and outlines a better way to limit Congress' subpoena power.
Vance strikes me as compelling and correct. Mazars creates a complex and unwieldy balancing test.
The Supreme Court weighs the legality of subpoenaing Trump’s financial records.
The Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump's claims of immunity, but reaffirmed limits on investigatory powers, and ruled in favor of Native American tribal claims against Oklahoma.
On the penultimate day of the October 2019 term, the Supreme Court expands the ministerial exception and upholds exemptions to the contraception coverage mandate.
The judicially invented license for police abuse undermines the rule of law and the separation of powers.
In a decision considering federal limitations on robocalls, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its longstanding approach to severability.
The push to reclassify independent contractors is harming many of the workers it's supposed to help.
This isn't a bill about fighting child porn. Don't fall for it.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejects a procedural trick used by FERC to avoid judicial review.
Plus: Tech giants will testify in Congressional antitrust hearing, Seattle police clear out CHOP, and more...
Former federal judge Michael Luttig thinks that the D.C. Circuit did not really understand what was at stake.
The House voted to recognize the District of Columbia as a state, but many obstacles still lie ahead.
If the U.S. Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission disagree, does the case belong in federal court?
SCOTUS rules 5–4 in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Roberts dissented in 2016 when SCOTUS struck down an abortion law. What changed this time around?
The article explains why these policies, which made made America more closed to immigration than at any previous time in history, are both harmful and a dangerous executive power grab.
Federal civil asset forfeiture bill reintroduced as police reform efforts hit a partisan wall.
There's a lot going on. Here's a rundown of significant police reform news from around the country.
Republicans have said ending qualified immunity is off the table, and for the moment policing reform looks dead in Congress.
The plaintiffs argue that the city's tolerance of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest has resulted in lawlessness and lost business.
In the name of fighting lynching, the bipartisan bill authorizes 10-year sentences for minor crimes like vandalism.
A Second Amendment hypocrite with a plan to undermine federalism
As much as $1.4 billion might have been paid to deceased Americans. The IRS says that money must be returned.
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Another case of typical congressional carelessness.
The chemical company has agreed to create a $10 billion settlement fund
Crime Victims Rights Amendment
A 2-1 ruling concludes that the district court cannot even hold a hearing on the subject.
A new, terrible anti-encryption bill with a twist
The legal doctrine frequently allows police officers to violate your rights without fear of civil liability.
The Department of Justice is finding creative ways to file federal charges against rioters and looters.
Professor Christopher Walker explores a potential wrinkle in the DACA decision.
A Sixth Circuit panel rejects claims of qualified immunity for officers and Monell immunity for a Cleveland suburb.
Professor Zach Price on the Chief Justice Roberts' Decision in Dept. of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California
Everybody is talking about changing law enforcement, but not all proposals are equally worthy—or serious.
In what appears to be a quite narrow ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts holds that if Trump wants to get rid of DACA, he'll have to try again.
That uniform rule is different from the policies favored by Donald Trump and House Democrats.
A unanimous panel concludes the Department of Health and Human Services Lacked Statutory Authority to Impose the Rule
"Only the written word is the law, and all persons are entitled to its benefit."
"I have previously expressed my doubts about our qualified immunity jurisprudence," writes Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in a dissent.
"The fundamental protections set forth in our Constitution," Thomas writes, should be "applied equally to all citizens."