While there is some genuine politicization, it is not as great as often claimed. Proposals to undermine judicial review could easily end up empowering the very sort of authoritarian president progressives fear.
Special Counsel David Weiss will face a Second Amendment challenge if he prosecutes the president's son for illegally buying a firearm.
Thankfully, you don't need fancy dining halls or a college degree to have a good life or get a good job.
Violators are rarely caught, while the unlucky few who face prosecution can go to prison for years.
The decision casts further doubt on the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a felony for illegal drug users to own firearms.
The Kids Online Safety Act imposes an amorphous "duty of care" that would compromise anonymous speech and restrict access to constitutionally protected content.
Promoting impunity for violating rights as a policy tool? What could go wrong?
The Supreme Court vacated a stay entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Justice Alito was wrong to suggest Congress has no authority to regulate the Court. But that authority is itself subject to constraint.
Ethics allegations have been raised against Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Sonia Sotomayor. Both sides have retreated into whataboutism.
Harvard law Prof. Mark Tushnet and political scientist Aaron Belkin urge President Biden to disobey "gravely mistaken" Supreme Court rulings. Doing so would set a dangerous precedent likely to be abused by the right, as well as the left.
October Term 2022 saw a significant drop in the number of paid petitions for certiorari. Is it a trend?
A critical column by Jamelle Bouie prompts an extensive reply from Peter Canellos.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline's developers seek Supreme Court intervention to prevent the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from delaying its completion.
Contrary to popular perception, the current Supreme Court overturns precedent and declares laws to be unconstitutional less often than its predecessors did.
One thing is clear about Missouri v. Biden: The decision cannot be understood by viewing it through a polarized lens.
The 11th Circuit rejected Sosa's constitutional claims, and he is asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.
Civil forfeiture is a highly unaccountable practice. The justices have the opportunity to make it a bit less so.
Biden plans to slash minimum monthly payments to just 5 percent of borrowers' income.
Plus: A listener questions last week’s discussion of the Supreme Court's decision involving same-sex wedding websites and free expression.
Contra Joe Biden, they argue that these recent rulings show respect for individual rights and concern for racial and sexual minorities.
Teachers are citing West Virginia v. Barnette to protect their right not to be compelled to say something they disagree with.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of the Court's recent rulings on affirmative action and same-sex wedding services.
Plus: A listener question on the potential efficacy of congressional term limits.
If you can't force a web designer to serve a gay wedding, can you force a web platform to serve a politician?
Plus: Fewer cops, less crime; free beer; and more....
The Court will consdier whether to invalidate the CFPB's funding, narrow standing, and overturn Chevron, among other things.
Some end-of-term comments and an assessment of my end-of-term predictions.
The President strongly criticized the Supreme Court's recent decisions, but refuses to endorse radical reform.
The decision reverses a terrible previous decision by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Plus: Perspectives on the affirmative action ruling, how U.S. policy is thwarting Cuban capitalists, and more...
and other matters from the latest episode of Divided Argument
There is no reason for public universities to grant preferential treatment to the scions of their alumni.
In a 6–3 decision, the Court ruled that race-based affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment.
The Court's core ruling is unsurprising, but its future effects are uncertain.
Leading originalist constitutional law scholar comments on the Supreme Court's recent rejection of independent state legislature theory.
Plus: Maine prostitution measure becomes law, "significant misconduct" in jail where Epstein hung himself, Mike Pence defends free markets, and more...
Chief Justice John Roberts decisively rejected the independent state legislature theory.
Plus: Why people believe doomer narratives, schools seek to define social media platforms as public nuisances, and more...
Justice Gorsuch has never voted against Native American interests in a Supreme Court case. But that probably isn't because he's biased in favor of Indians. He simply believes that much existing precedent in this field is biased the other way.
The question presented is whether the 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states.
The Supreme Court did not overturn the standing holding of MAssachusetts v. EPA, but it may have left it on life support.
Some worth-what-you-paid-for-them predictions for the final(?) week of SCOTUS opinions.
Today’s decision “is narrow and simply maintains the longstanding jurisprudential status quo,” wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the majority.
