# Reason.com > The leading libertarian magazine and covering news, politics, culture, and more with reporting and analysis. ## Latest Posts - [Declassified Documents Detail the FBI's Surveillance of a Libertarian Sci-Fi Author](https://reason.test/2025/11/18/inside-vernor-vinges-fbi-file/): Vernor Vinge--the Hugo Award-winning science fiction author who passed away in March 2024--imagined a world where individuals, not governments, held the power. His 1981 novella True Names featured hackers known as "warlocks" fighting a corrupt, incompetent government, while his 1985 novel The Peace War made the case for anarcho-capitalism. "People are more diverse and distributed and resourceful and even coordinated... - [AI Might Help Doctors Be More Efficient and Lower Medical Costs](https://reason.test/2025/11/17/ai-vs-paperwork/): At September's National Conservatism Conference, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) argued AI "threatens the common man's liberty" and that "only humans should advise on critical medical treatments." Yet AI promises to enhance the human experience by reducing the price of critical services like health care. The price of medical care has outpaced the consumer price index by 35... - [Brickbat: Doesn't Add Up](https://reason.test/2025/11/17/brickbat-doesnt-add-up/): After 27 years, the Berkeley Math Circle's flagship BMC-Upper program has shut down because the University of California, Berkeley implemented new background check rules requiring campus visitors to be fingerprinted. As part of the process, prints must be sent off to the state government, and the process can take more than a month. Berkeley Math... - [Less Indictable Than a Ham Sandwich](https://reason.test/2025/11/16/less-indictable-than-a-ham-sandwich/): In August 2025, President Donald Trump took control of the police force in Washington, D.C., and deployed the National Guard throughout the city. To justify the incursion, he said the district was experiencing a "crime emergency"--a highly debatable characterization. Violent crime remains a problem in the district, but the homicide rate has been down over the... - [The Art of the Presidential Health Cover-Up](https://reason.test/2025/11/15/the-art-of-the-presidential-health-cover-up/): When the St. Petersburg Times first launched PolitiFact in 2007, its purpose was to assess the veracity of statements made by "members of Congress, the president, cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, people who testify before Congress and anyone else who speaks up in Washington." Fast forward to September 2025, and the trailblazing fact-checker has been reduced to informing us that "President Donald Trump... - [Review: 'The Greatest Songwriter of All Time' Finally Gets a Biography](https://reason.test/2025/11/14/carole-king/): The Shirelles, an all-black girl group out of New Jersey, had just cracked the Top 40 in September 1960 and needed a follow-up hit. Don Kirshner, impresario of a songwriting factory in Manhattan's Brill Building, gave his teams the assignment. Within 24 hours, the husband-wife combo of composer Carole King and lyricist Gerry Goffin came... - [Review: The Smithsonian's 'Futures in Space' Exhibit Is Surprisingly Backward-Looking](https://reason.test/2025/11/14/futures-in-space/): The jewel of the new "Futures in Space" exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is a Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule. Visitors who come to the museum to be in the presence of objects that have touched the heavens may be disappointed when they learn that the capsule... - [Brickbat: Puff? Pass.](https://reason.test/2025/11/14/brickbat-puff-pass/): The Maldives has banned anyone born on or after January 1, 2007, from buying, using, or selling tobacco. The health ministry says the ban "applies to all forms of tobacco, and retailers are required to verify age prior to sale." A tobacco control official cited previous action against vaping as a first step. He noted... - [Brickbats: December 2025](https://reason.test/2025/11/13/brickbats-december-2025/): A federal grand jury in Boston indicted former postal fraud inspector Scott Kelley on wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering for allegedly using his position to steal over $330,000 from elderly victims of telemarketing scams. Prosecutors say from 2019 to 2023, Kelley had postal employees send him a total of 1,950 packages that had... - [Brickbat: Both Sides of the Coin](https://reason.test/2025/11/13/brickbat-both-sides-of-the-coin/): Former Fresno police officer Rey Medeles has been charged with two counts each of grand theft and preparing false evidence. Officials say he stole more than $60,000 in cash from the department's evidence room. Even as he faces criminal charges, the city is defending him in three separate civil rights lawsuits filed by local business... - [5 Legal Reforms To Consider as Government Officials Lean on Critics](https://reason.test/2025/11/12/5-legal-reforms-to-consider-as-government-officials-lean-on-critics/): Next month, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee over his role in browbeating ABC into briefly suspending late-night "comedian" Jimmy Kimmel. After Charlie Kirk's assassination, Kimmel made stupid and insensitive comments that prompted Carr to wade into the fray, threatening to use his regulatory power to punish... - [Brickbat: Float Like a Butterfly, Steal Like a Thief](https://reason.test/2025/11/12/brickbat-float-like-a-butterfly-steal-like-a-thief/): Nashid Akil, a former Philadelphia police captain, and eight current or former officers have been charged with conspiracy, theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, and receiving stolen property. They are accused of misusing about $392,000 in city anti-violence grant funds tied to Guns Down, Gloves Up--an after-school youth boxing program Akil started. Prosecutors say... - [Trump Says He Hates Socialism. So Why Is He Acting Like a Socialist?](https://reason.test/2025/11/12/trump-says-he-hates-socialism-so-why-is-he-acting-like-a-socialist/): "America will never be a socialist country!" says President Donald Trump. I hope not. Trump rightly declared socialism "the wrecker of nations and destroyer of societies." But I fear he's confused about what socialism is. "Trump says he's against socialism, but he is having the government get involved in owning companies and directing companies," complains... - [The Perils of Viewing Psilocybin Strictly As a Psychiatric Medication](https://reason.test/2025/11/12/the-perils-of-viewing-psilocybin-strictly-as-a-psychiatric-medication/): The Scottsdale Research Institute (SRI) grows psilocybin mushrooms in Arizona with permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Late last month, the organization announced that it will use those mushrooms in a state-funded study testing their effectiveness in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). That project, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has greenlit, exemplifies a... - [Candace Owens Can't Present Serious Evidence for Her Charlie Kirk Assassination Theories](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/candace-owens-cant-present-serious-evidence-for-her-charlie-kirk-assassination-theories/): For critics of the mainstream media--myself very much included--it is tempting to always feel some kinship toward independent media commentators, reporters, and influencers. After all, we have lived through an era in which the skeptics of establishment media institutions were proven right again and again: from the hysterically off-base mainstream contentions regarding Russiagate and Hunter... - [Trump Pardons Mountain Runner Michelino Sunseri, Who Was Prosecuted for Using an Unapproved Trail](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/trump-pardons-mountain-runner-michelino-sunseri-who-was-prosecuted-for-using-an-unapproved-trail/): "In an unbelievable twist that even Hollywood couldn't write," mountain runner Michelino Sunseri announced on Facebook yesterday, "I woke up this morning to find out I've been given a PRESIDENTIAL PARDON from Donald J. Trump." Thus ends what Sunseri facetiously described as "the trail trial of the century"--his prosecution for taking an unauthorized route while... - [The 50-Year Mortgage: Completely Fine or a Total Flop?](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/the-50-year-mortgage-completely-fine-or-a-total-flop/): Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes a look at the Trump administration's proposal to create a 50-year mortgage product to rival the 30-year mortgage that became standard during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration. Mortgage analysts are split on whether this is a benign, even beneficial, idea or a complete catastrophe.... - [Tariff Stimulus Checks Are an Unserious Idea](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/tariff-stimulus-checks-are-an-unserious-idea/): President Donald Trump's proposal to deliver huge stimulus checks to many American households is the latest bit of fiscal fantasy to emerge from the White House. In a post on Truth Social, Trump promised checks of $2,000 to low- and middle-income Americans, supposedly to be funded out of tariff revenue. It's not the first time... - [No One Is Winning the YouTube TV Dispute With ESPN. It's Time for Both Sides To Call It Off.](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/no-one-is-winning-the-youtube-tv-dispute-with-espn-its-time-for-both-sides-to-call-it-off/): Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Be kind to your water bottles this week, lest they end up hitting an innocent bystander. Ten million people haven't had access to ESPN and the rest of Disney's channels for almost two weeks, and it's starting to get on my their nerves. We'll get into... - [Punching Bag Schumer](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/punching-bag-schumer/): Senate passed bill to end shutdown: Last night, the Senate voted 60-to-40 to advance a bill that would end the shutdown, with a critical group of Democrats breaking with their own party and voting with the Republicans. "We had no path forward on health care because the Republicans said, 'We will not talk about health care... - [This Foreign Policy Precedent Might Aid Trump's Tariffs at SCOTUS](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/): If you followed last week's U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments over President Donald Trump's supposed power to impose tariffs without first receiving clear authorization from Congress, you may have noticed that Solicitor General John Sauer repeatedly cited a Supreme Court precedent called United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation (1936). By my count, Sauer mentioned Curtiss-Wright... - [Greta Rideout's Landmark Rape Case Against Her Husband: 'I Did It for My Daughter'](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/what-happened-after-greta-rideouts-husband-raped-her/): Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, by Sarah Weinman, Ecco, 320 pages, $32 A woman shows up at the police station and says she would like to press charges for rape. Asked about the perpetrator's identity, she says "My husband." A laugh track plays. The show... - [Brickbat: No Stone Unturned](https://reason.test/2025/11/11/brickbat-no-stone-unturned/): A woman in Brampton, Ontario, died in a November 1 car crash, but police did not discover her body until hours later, after the vehicle was towed away. First responders had only found and removed a male driver from a wrecked Honda Civic, but a woman's family later reported her missing, and her location was... - [Trump Baselessly Accuses Meat Packers of 'Criminally Profiting at the Expense of the American People'](https://reason.test/2025/11/10/trump-baselessly-accuses-meat-packers-of-criminally-profiting-at-the-expense-of-the-american-people/): American families are paying significantly more for beef at the checkout counter--over 75 cents per pound more in September than they were in January. President Donald Trump thinks he has a plan to solve these higher prices: more government intervention. On Friday, Trump called out "Majority Foreign Owned Meat Packers" for artificially inflating prices and... ## Latest: Podcasts - [There's More Than One Way To Get Sober](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/11/12/theres-more-than-one-way-to-get-sober/): The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world a more libertarian--or at least more interesting--place by championing free minds and free markets. Today's guest is Katie Herzog, co-host of the popular Blocked & Reported podcast and author of the paradigm-shattering new book Drink Your Way... - [Did Democrats Blow It on the Government Shutdown?](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/11/10/did-democrats-blow-it-on-the-government-shutdown/): This week, Reason editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by the editor in chief of The Argument, Jerusalem Demsas, to discuss the end of the government shutdown and what Democrats actually gained from it. They examine the renewed focus on Obamacare subsidies and how both parties are struggling to articulate a coherent health... - [Campus Activism in the Wake of Charlie Kirk's Murder](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/11/06/campus-activism-in-the-wake-of-charlie-kirks-murder/): Nick Gillespie speaks with Dr. Wolf von Laer of Students for Liberty, and Sean Themea of Young Americans for Liberty about how campus activism may change after the murder of Charlie Kirk. They discuss how the tragedy has affected their organizations, what it means for the future of student organizing, and how libertarian ideas about... - [Veterans Are Suffering Because of Government Red Tape](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/11/05/veterans-are-suffering-because-of-fda-red-tape/): The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world a more libertarian--or at least a more interesting--place by challenging worn-out ideas and orthodoxies. Today's guests are Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jon Shenk and former Navy SEAL Marcus Capone. Shenk is co-director, with Bonni Cohen, of the new Netflix documentary In... - [Will a Mamdani Victory Push the Democrats Further Left?](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/11/03/will-a-mamdani-victory-push-the-democrats-further-left/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the upcoming New York City mayoral election and what a Zohran Mamdani victory could mean for both the city and national politics. They weigh the best-case/worst-case scenarios of a leftward turn in New York, asking whether Mamdani represents a lasting anti-AI socialist movement or simply the... - [Jake Tapper on Censorship, Media Failings, and Presidential Power](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/10/29/jake-tapper-on-censorship-media-failings-and-presidential-power/): The Reason Interview goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers who are making the world a more libertarian--or at least more interesting--place by challenging worn-out orthodoxies and ideas. Today's guest is Jake Tapper, the host of The Lead on CNN and author of the new book, Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn... - [Javier Milei's Libertarian Policies Win Shock Election](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/10/27/javier-mileis-libertarian-policies-win-shock-election/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch are joined by associate editor Liz Wolfe to discuss Argentine President Javier Milei's strong midterm showing and what it suggests about the durability of his libertarian reform agenda. They debate whether the results vindicate Trump's earlier currency-swap bailout, how Milei's spending-cut program is playing out, and what lessons... - [Is Oregon Proof That Drug Decriminalization Will Fail?](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/10/24/does-oregon-show-that-drugs-should-be-illegal/): Drug policy scholar Kevin Sabet and Reason's Zach Weissmueller debate the resolution, "The failure of Oregon's experiment in decriminalizing all drugs is compelling evidence that other attempts at complete decriminalization will fail just as badly." Arguing for the affirmative is Sabet, the director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, and the... - [What Happened to the Republican Party?](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-the-republican-party/): The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world more libertarian--or at least more interesting--by challenging worn-out ideas and orthodoxies. Today's guest is Jeff Flake, former Arizona senator and U.S. ambassador to Turkey, and now head of the brand-new Institute of Politics at Arizona State... - [Does Argentina's Bailout Prove Libertarians Wrong?](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/10/20/does-argentinas-bailout-prove-libertarians-wrong/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch examine Argentina's $20 billion bailout and what it means for President Javier Milei's promise of a libertarian turnaround. They debate whether foreign aid undermines his free market agenda and what the deal suggests about Washington's own commitment to fiscal restraint. The editors also discuss this weekend's "No... - [Can the ACLU Serve Progressives, Libertarians, and Conservatives?](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/10/15/can-the-aclu-serve-progressives-and-conservatives/): The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world more libertarian--or at least more interesting--by championing free minds and free markets. Today's guest is Ben Wizner, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He says that President Donald Trump's second term... - [Trump's Art of the Deal for Peace in the Middle East](https://reason.test/podcast/2025/10/13/trumps-art-of-the-deal-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch celebrate the release of over 2,000 hostages, political prisoners, and detainees, while considering whether President Donald Trump's Israel-Gaza deal represents a genuine step toward lasting peace in the Middle East. They discuss whether Trump's foreign policy approach is consistent, examining his recent strikes in Venezuela, and whether... ## Latest: Video - [How Oregon's Drug Experiment Backfired](https://reason.test/video/2025/10/01/how-oregons-drug-experiment-backfired/): In 2020, Oregon became the first state in America to decriminalize all drugs. Was it a catastrophic mistake? Has this famously progressive city been mugged by reality? Reason visited Portland and talked to drug users, politicians, and police to find out what actually happened and uncovered a very different story. As we shadowed Officer Eli Arnold,... - [Donald Trump and Peter Thiel Are Using AI To Supercharge the Surveillance State](https://reason.test/video/2025/09/25/donald-trump-and-peter-thiel-are-using-ai-to-supercharge-the-surveillance-state/): Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, has a provocative theory about how the Antichrist could take over the Earth and enslave humanity. "My speculative thesis is that if the Antichrist were to come to power it would be by talking about Armageddon all the time," Thiel told Hoover Institution interviewer Peter Robinson... - [Here's What Would Happen If We Seized All the Wealth From America's 800 Billionaires](https://reason.test/video/2025/09/09/heres-what-would-happen-if-we-seized-all-the-wealth-from-americas-800-billionaires/): Budget deficits of nearly $2 trillion--and speeding towards $4 trillion within a decade--will force increasingly difficult budgetary trade-offs. Many on the left, and sometimes the populist right, respond with: "Easy, just tax the rich. Problem solved." But is it really that easy? Can most of these soaring budget deficits be closed by higher taxes on... - [The Socialist Transit Plan That Could Break NYC](https://reason.test/video/2025/09/05/the-socialist-transit-plan-that-could-break-nyc/): New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to make every city bus ride free. The democratic socialist assemblyman says the policy would cost about $700 million a year, which sounds like a lot until you compare it to New York state's $254.3 billion budget. Mamdani argues that when stacked against that number, his plan... - [Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Obscenity Blocks, Cooking Oil, and D.C.'s Tipped Minimum Wage (Vol. 19)](https://reason.test/video/2025/08/29/great-moments-in-unintended-consequences-obscenity-blocks-cooking-oil-and-d-c-s-tipped-minimum-wage-vol-19/): Great moments in unintended consequences--when something that sounds like a great idea goes horribly wrong. Watch the whole series. Part One: Bleep Creep The Year: 1996 The Problem: People on the internet swear too much! The Solution: A content filter that blocks profane words and naughty letter combinations. Sounds like a great idea, with the... - [Why Do So Many Jobs Require a License?](https://reason.test/video/2025/08/22/why-do-so-many-jobs-require-a-license/): Around 20 percent of American workers must hold a professional license to do their job. Why? Andrew Heaton has an answer. And it's infuriating. - [Why Does the Government Run Air Traffic Control?](https://reason.test/video/2025/07/29/why-does-the-government-run-air-traffic-control/): Air traffic control is probably something you don't spend much time thinking about--but when you board an airplane, you really want it to work. Unfortunately, the American air traffic control system is kind of a mess right now. It relies on outdated technology and is beset by staffing shortages. Fixing those problems is essential, but... - [Remy: I Need a Boat (GOP Spending Version)](https://reason.test/video/2025/07/22/remy-i-need-a-boat-gop-spending-version/): You can't torpedo spending if you're torpedo spending. Parody of Morgan Wallen's "Need A Boat," written and performed by Remy. Music tracks mastered by Ben Karlstrom. LYRICS This draft bill don't look fine right now And it ain't doing the trick (No...) We're so dangerously indebted now And this adds to the debt. It adds... - [There's No Evidence That Climate Change Has Increased the Rat Population](https://reason.test/video/2025/07/15/theres-no-evidence-that-climate-change-has-increased-the-rat-population/): As the earth gets warmer, there's one species that supposedly will really benefit."Climate Change is amazing," reported National Geographic. "If you're a rat." The horrific prospect of these pizza-dragging, toilet-bathing, plague-spreading, baby-eating, cannibalistic beasts swarming the sweltering streets of our major cities helps to explain why a recent study allegedly demonstrating a global warming-induced increase... - [Trump Can Take Revenge on the 'Deep State': Pardon Snowden](https://reason.test/video/2025/07/08/trump-can-take-revenge-on-the-deep-state-pardon-snowden/): Twelve years after facilitating the largest national security leak in American history, Edward Snowden remains exiled in Russia, unable to set foot on U.S. soil without losing his freedom. A bipartisan consensus denouncing Snowden as a criminal traitor quickly formed in Washington, D.C., following the revelation of his identity in 2013: "I don't think Mr.... - [How Texas Beat California on Housing](https://reason.test/video/2025/06/30/how-texas-beat-california-on-housing/): San Francisco and Austin are both known for their trendsetting tech sectors and cultural scenes. But while Austin is enjoying the best of times, for San Francisco, it's starting to feel like the worst. San Francisco's population has dropped for the fourth year in a row. It saw one of the largest percentage declines among... - [Tariff Fight: California vs. Texas](https://reason.test/video/2025/06/28/tariff-fight-california-vs-texas/): It's not who ends up worse off, but who ends up worst off. ## Latest: The Volokh Conspiracy - [Today in Supreme Court History: November 17, 1880](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/17/today-in-supreme-court-history-november-17-1880-7/): 11/17/1880: The United States and China sign treaty that protects Chinese laborers residing in the United States. This treaty was implicated in Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886). - [Today in Supreme Court History: November 16, 1939](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/16/today-in-supreme-court-history-november-16-1939-7/): 11/16/1939: Justice Pierce Butler dies. - [Open Thread](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/13/open-thread-9/) - [Today in Supreme Court History: November 12, 1975](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/12/today-in-supreme-court-history-november-12-1975-7/): 11/12/1975: Justice William O. Douglas resigns. - [Open Thread](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/12/open-thread-7/) - [Oh *SNAP*! Did KBJ Not Refer *Rollins* To The Full Court?](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/11/oh-snap-did-kbj-not-refer-rollins-to-the-full-court/): Tonight, the Court extended the administrative stay in Rollins v. RI Council of Churches for 48 hours. This order blocks the TRO that required the Trump Administration to immediately pay out billions for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Justice Jackson dissented from the extension of the administrative stay, and from the application altogether. The order... - [Lawsuit Against Saudi Arabia Over Al-Shamrani Mass Shooting at Pensacola Naval Air Station Can Go Forward, in Part](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/11/lawsuit-against-saudi-arabia-over-al-shamrani-mass-shooting-at-pensacola-naval-air-station-can-go-forward-in-part/): From yesterday's Eleventh Circuit decision by Judge Stanley Marcus, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and Britt Grant, in Watson v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: This violent and tragic case arose out of a shooting rampage involving Royal Saudi Air Force ("RSAF") Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Al-Shamrani ... at Pensacola Naval Air Station ... on December... - [Nothing New Under the Sun, Part 2713, Here as to Family Pardons](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/11/nothing-new-under-the-sun-part-2713-here-as-to-family-pardons/): I thought I'd pass along an item I came across in the 1856 reminiscences of a Philadelphia lawyer (David Paul Brown, The Forum, or, Forty Years Full Practice at the Philadelphia Bar, vol. 1, p. 365), a book I was looking at for an entirely different purpose. The author is offering what he sees as... - [Today in Supreme Court History: November 11, 1975](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/11/today-in-supreme-court-history-november-11-1975-7/): 11/11/1975: Virginia State Bd. of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. argued. - [Open Thread](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/11/open-thread-8/) - [After Nearly One Year, SCOTUS Denies Cert In Vehicle To Overrule *Kagama*](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/11/after-nearly-one-year-scotus-denies-cert-in-vehicle-to-overrule-kagama/): On July 26, 2024, a cert petition was filed in Veneno v. United States. The Petitioner asked the Court to overrule United States v. Kagama, a precedent that established Congress's "plenary" powers over Indian tribes. The government promptly waived its response on August 8, 2024, I think in an effort to get it into the... - [Heard Today at the Supreme Court...](https://reason.test/volokh/2025/11/10/heard-today-at-the-supreme-court/): Heard today at the Supreme Court in oral arguments in GEO Group, Inc. v. Menocal, a case about derivative federal contractor immunity, where I filed an amicus brief: "it is clear from the Court's reasoning and Professor Volokh does a great job explaining this in his amicus brief..."