The Supreme Court Said States Can't Discriminate in Alcohol Sales. They're Doing It Anyway.
Two decades after Granholm v. Heald was supposed to end protectionist shipping laws, states and lower courts continue to undermine the decision.
Two decades after Granholm v. Heald was supposed to end protectionist shipping laws, states and lower courts continue to undermine the decision.
Legislators have used the state Constitution to avoid accountability for egregious traffic violations.
Plus: the federal government tries to stiff landlords over eviction moratorium one last time, the Supreme Court declines to take up eminent domain case, and starter home bills advance in Arizona and Texas.
Lawmakers in Arizona and California are attempting to overcome local resistance to meaningful starter home reforms.
Waymo is expanding its autonomous taxi fleet that can carry passengers on public roads, no human driver required.
He’ll be around to protect our freedom for a few more years.
The ballot initiative would have put guardrails on the abuse of power from governors who declared states of emergency.
This isn't a policy that corrects for injustice but one that increases it.
Most of these weren't close calls at all.
Proposition 314 will allow state and local police to enforce immigration law—and shield them from lawsuits over misconduct related to that enforcement.
Blame bad laws, not fraud, for delays in vote counting in some swing states.
Rebekah Massie's removal and arrest from a city council meeting was "objectively outrageous," the judge ruled.
Tyron McAlpin's lawyers say he couldn't hear the commands of the officers when they jumped out of a police cruiser and immediately attacked him.
Families like guiding their kids’ education, but the governor and state attorney general disagree.
Plus: the transformation of California's builder's remedy, the zoning reform implications of the Eric Adams indictment, and why the military killed starter home reform in Arizona.
Rebekah Massie criticized a proposed pay raise for a city attorney. When she refused to stop, citing her First Amendment rights, the mayor had her arrested.
Kevin Fair fell behind on his property taxes in 2014. The local government eventually gave a private investor the deed to his home.
A recent boom in entrepreneurship challenges red-tape hurdles.
A handful of Republican lawmakers worked with Democrats to repeal an 1864 law banning most abortions.
Phoenix police are trained that "deescalation" means overwhelming and immediate force, whether or not it's necessary.
Law enforcement could arrest those they suspect of crossing into the state illegally—and they’d be “immune from liability for damages.”
The Sixth Amendment was originally seen as vital to preserving liberty. Yet it has been consistently watered down.
A new California law amends the state's ban on out-of-state doctors practicing medicine to allow doctors from Arizona to perform abortions for patients who are also from Arizona.
Plus: Austin shrinks its minimum lot sizes, Florida builds on past zoning reforms, and Arizona passes ADU and missing middle bills.
The case hinged on statutory interpretation, not the merits of the state's 1864 ban.
State government officials deploy scare tactics against families of special needs students seeking alternatives.
Plus: Defunding NPR, defending Lionel Shriver, and more...
Plus: New York refreshes rent control, AOC and Bernie Sanders call for more, greener public housing, and California's "builder's remedy" wins big in court.
Tucson and Pima County have a history of passing restrictions that conflict with state law.
And the real kicker is that Intel was probably going to create those jobs without taxpayers funding anything.
Plus: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is fooled by TikTok housing falsehoods, Austin building boom cuts prices, and Sacramento does the socialist version of "homeless homesteading."
Plus: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs dithers over whether to veto bipartisan Starter Homes bill, Biden says "build, build, build," and Massachusetts sues anti-apartment suburb.
The proposal would harm business owners, consumers, and workers without much benefit in return.
Parents in Arizona have already proven themselves capable of holding schools accountable.
"Governors don't get to print money," the former Arizona governor tells Reason.
The Supreme Court supposedly put an end to “home equity theft” last year. But some state and local governments have found a loophole.
It's taxpayers who lose when politicians give gifts, grants, and loans to private companies.
Gov. Katie Hobbs hates that families are guiding their own children’s schooling.
A veto from Gov. Katie Hobbs killed a bill that would’ve brought the trade above ground. Now lawmakers have launched a new legalization effort.
Plus: the Supreme Court weighs housing fees and homelessness, YIMBYs bet on smaller, more focused reforms, and a new paper finds legalizing more housing does in fact bring costs down.
The former governor argues that beating up on businesses "is only sharpening the knife that the left will eventually use on us."
The former governor argues that beating up on businesses "is only sharpening the knife that the left will eventually use on us."
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