ICE vs. Wine Moms, Rogan on Fauci's Crimes, and the Star Wars Prequels
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss ICE in Minnesota
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ICE Agents Flouted DHS Policies That Could Have Prevented Renee Good's Death
Jonathan Ross and Renee Good
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Video Shows Feds Shooting ICE Protester With Nonlethal Round at Point-Blank Range, Blinding Him in One Eye
A man with a bloodied and bruised left eye
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Arkansas Case on Zoning Laws Being Used to Exclude Gun Shops
In yesterday's Arkansas Supreme Court decision in Eureka Gun & Pawn, LLC v. City of Eureka Springs, the majority dismissed… The post Arkansas Case on Zoning Laws Being Used to Exclude Gun Shops appeared first on Reason.com.
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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Bad aim, conjugal visits, and a cavalier gun dealer.
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Do Cellphones Cause Cancer? RFK Jr.'s HHS Is Suppressing FDA Data Confirming Cellphone Safety.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. holding a cell phone to his ear
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She Let Her 6-Year-Old Ride to the Park Alone. Georgia Called It Neglect.
Despite a new state law protecting childhood independence, child welfare officials accused these Atlanta parents of neglect—and put their family under surveillance.
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Business Is Apparently Selling AI-Hallucination-Filled Documents to Unwary Litigants, Court Says
From Judge Michael Liburdi (D. Ariz.) last Friday in Gardner v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC: Through these proceedings, brought by Plaintiff… The post Business Is Apparently Selling AI-Hallucination-Filled Documents to Unwary Litigants, Court Says appeared first on Reason.com.
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Trump's Push To Restore 'Truth and Sanity in American History' Tests Nonpartisan Institutions
Smithsonian Museum
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Delivers Anarchy in the U.K., Again
Scene from ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’
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Year in Prison for Role in Hate Crime Hoax
So Judge Regina M. Rodriguez (D. Colo.) decided yesterday in U.S. v. Blackcloud; for more on the case, see this November… The post Year in Prison for Role in Hate Crime Hoax appeared first on Reason.com.
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Currying Favor
Donald Trump receiving María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Price in the Oval Office
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"The Waning of Racial Preferences at American Law Schools, 2021-2025," by My UCLA Colleague Rick Sander
From this new draft, cowritten by Prof. Sander and Henry Kim: In June 2023, the Supreme Court broadly held that… The post "The Waning of Racial Preferences at American Law Schools, 2021-2025," by My UCLA Colleague Rick Sander appeared first on Reason.com.
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Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing, Abstract to Concrete: Analogies and Metaphors.
Make the important interesting. —James Fallows We have plumbed the depths of abstract words, but what about abstract ideas? Abstractions… The post Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing, Abstract to Concrete: Analogies and Metaphors. appeared first on Reason.com.
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Today in Supreme Court History: January 16, 1919
1/16/1919: The 18th Amendment is ratified. The post Today in Supreme Court History: January 16, 1919 appeared first on Reason.com.
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Today in Supreme Court History: January 15, 1908
1/15/1908: Muller v. Oregon argued.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: January 15, 1908 appeared first on Reason.com.
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Greenlanders Don't Consent To Becoming Americans
President Donald Trump, and a globe with Greenland highlighted.
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Review: D.C.'s $500 Million Shrine to Capitalism
A bright and ornate room with paintings, chandeliers, and fancy ceiling tiles
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Brickbat: Hearty Appetite
A shopping cart full of food heads down a grocery store aisle.
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When a Justice Shares The Name With The Party
Justice Barrett did not write Barrett v. United States, but other Justices wrote the majority opinion who shared a name with a party.
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Hecox May Still Hide In Justice Kennedy's Shadow
There is nothing originalist about Footnote Four, animus, and suspect classes. Let it go already.
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Second Amendment Roundup: Hawaii's Ban on Firearms on Property Open to the Public
In Wolford, the Supreme Court should clarify the facial/as-applied issue.
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Second Amendment Roundup: Important Wolford Brief Addresses Bruen Methodology
Prof. Alicea explains the proper way to apply Bruen.
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Second Amendment Roundup: An Opportunity to Clarify 1791 vs. 1868
Time period to assess Second Amendment rights may arise in Wolford argument.
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Opinion Allowing Elon Musk's Claims Against OpenAI to Go Forward, Partly Allowing Claims Against Microsoft
The opinion by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (N.D. Cal.) in Musk v. Altman was just posted. Musk's breach of charitable… The post Opinion Allowing Elon Musk's Claims Against OpenAI to Go Forward, Partly Allowing Claims Against Microsoft appeared first on Reason.com.
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When Is a Corporation Also New Jersey?
A few thoughts on the oral argument in Galette v. N.J. Transit Corp.
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Yes, the Middle Class Is Shrinking—Because It's Moving Up
A man climbs a ladder over a suburban, middle-class neighborhood
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More on Lawyer Hijinks in Laura Loomer's and Bill Maher's Depositions
From an order today by Magistrate Judge Philip Lammens in Loomer v. Maher (M.D. Fla.) (the underlying case is a… The post More on Lawyer Hijinks in Laura Loomer's and Bill Maher's Depositions appeared first on Reason.com.
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Renee Good Was a Casualty of Trump's Order Against 'Political Violence'
Renee Good and President Donald Trump
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American Quartz Manufacturers Want To Make Kitchen Countertops Even More Expensive
Illustration of a block of quartz with an upward trending arrow
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Can You Waive A Substantive Canon?
Justice Gorsuch suggested that the West Virginia did not raise the clear statement rule, Justice Sotomayor countered that a substantive canon cannot be waived.
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What If A Supreme Court Case Becomes Moot Before June?
Hecox will not graduate in May, but such mootness could have arisen in King v. Burwell.
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Seizing Greenland Might Be the Least Popular Idea in American Political History
Leaders from Denmark and Greenland on the left, and President Donald Trump on the right.
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Andrew Hale Leaves Heritage for Advancing American Freedom
"I can roll with policy changes, but what I can't roll with is a tolerance or an overlooking of antisemitism or any form of bigotry."
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Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing: Impactful Introductions
A great introduction is fine art, crafted with great care and purpose. A first impression matters. If the reader never… The post Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing: Impactful Introductions appeared first on Reason.com.
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'We Cannot Be Afraid To Do Something Because the Left Might Do It in the Future'
Vice President J.D. Vance on the nature of power
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Justice Sotomayor Asks "Have You Studied The People" In SCOTUS Cases.
I have. Conservative litigants are vilified. Liberal litigants are celebrated.
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The As-Applied/Facial Fad Comes for the Equal Protection Clause
Justice Kagan ponders at great length about whether there can be an as-applied challenge based on the Equal Protection Clause.
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Trump's Unconstitutional Plan to Withhold all Federal Funding From Sanctuary Cities and States
The plan violates multiple constituitonal provisions and goes against Supreme Court precedent. If somehow allowed to stand, it would gravely imperil federalism and the separation of powers.
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Ohio State Student's Posts Urging "Resistance and Escalation" in Response to Israel's Actions in Gaza Protected by First Amendment
So holds a court, reversing student Guy Christensen's "disenrollment." The student also wrote, responding to the murder of two Israeli embassy employees in D.C. outside the Capital Jewish Museum, "I do not condemn the elimination of those two Zionist officials."
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Federal Agents Used a Battering Ram to Enter a Minneapolis Home Without Valid Warrant, Video Shows
A still from the video showing immigration agents entering a home without a warrant
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The Transgender Athletics Cases
They were not as combative as I would have expected, and maybe even not 6-3.
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