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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 28, 1856

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Research Suggests People Who Work From Home Are Having More Babies

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Today in Supreme Court History: December 27, 1771

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Josh Blackman

The John Galt of Comic Books

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Brian Doherty

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Politics Citizen flag poles, mega-appeals, and land acknowledgments. John Ross | 12.26.2025 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of Short...

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John Ross

Trial Court Had Ordered Mother to Only Call Son by First Name (Javier), not Middle Name (Reece), in Public

Free Speech But the Colorado Court of Appeals just reversed that, in part on First Amendment grounds. Eugene Volokh | 12.26.2025 8:51 AM From In re...

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Eugene Volokh

Were Statements in Roblox Chats About "Deal[ing] a Grievous Wound upon the Followers of the Cross" True Threats on Violence?

Politics No, a district court held earlier this month, because they were made "while playing an online video game, speaking as a character, among...

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Eugene Volokh

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Representing Benjamin Gitlow: Charles Recht and Walter Nelles," by Eric Easton

From the "Gitlow v. New York at 100" symposium, held this year at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Eugene Volokh |...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 26, 1907

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Josh Blackman

From Nixon to Trump, the 'War on Drugs' Has Been a Disaster for Americans' Freedom

War on Drugs Steven Greenhut | 12.26.2025 7:30 AM The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President...

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Steven Greenhut

Review: A Novel About Masculinity and Weightlifting

Book Reviews Peter Suderman | From the January 2026 issue In the years since the pandemic, weightlifting has frequently been associated with right-...

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Peter Suderman

"[T]he First and Fifth Amendments Require ICE to Provide Information About the Whereabouts of a Detained Person"

Free Speech ICE Salt Lake City apparently isn't answering its phone. Eugene Volokh | 12.26.2025 2:29 PM From Reyes v. U.S. ICE , decided Wednesday...

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Eugene Volokh

Here Are 5 Wars Trump Started or Expanded in 2025

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 12.26.2025 1:00 PM President Donald Trump came into office presenting himself as a peace president. "We will measure...

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Matthew Petti

Discrimination and Defamation Claim Stemming from Firing Based on Allegedly Racist Conduct Can Go Forward

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 12.26.2025 3:21 PM Birch v. John Muir Health , decided Tuesday by California Court of Appeal Justice Carin Fujisaki,...

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Eugene Volokh

Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is 'Domestic Terrorism'

First Amendment Autumn Billings | 12.26.2025 10:00 AM After leaving the Chicago area in November, U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino made...

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Autumn Billings

Brickbat: Big Boss Man

Brickbats Charles Oliver | 12.26.2025 4:00 AM Former Clayton County, Georgia, jailer Jabin Bethea pleaded guilty in federal court to violating a...

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Charles Oliver

The Logical Consequence of Enforcing Indigenous Treaties

Politics A Canadian judge held a 513-day trial, and ruled that the "indigenous Cowichan Nation holds 'Aboriginal title' over 800 acres of land."...

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Josh Blackman

Archives: January 2026

Politics Reason Staff | From the January 2026 issue "As the market matures and companies begin to merge, antitrust authorities might decide to get...

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Reason Staff

The Fourth Amendment's Erratic Year at the Supreme Court

Supreme Court Damon Root | 12.25.2025 7:00 AM The right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had an up-and-down sort of year at the U.S....

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Damon Root

How Does He Know When You've Been Bad or Good?

Thought I'd reprise a post that I'd put up a couple of times before. Eugene Volokh | 12.25.2025 5:33 PM This was supposedly written for and sung at...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 25, 2009

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Josh Blackman

Brickbat: the Music Man

Florida Charles Oliver | 12.25.2025 4:00 AM Lawton Chiles Middle School in Oviedo, Florida, briefly went into a "Code Red" lockdown after an AI-...

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Charles Oliver

The Most Overlooked Holiday Miracle: Abundance

Economic Growth Veronique de Rugy | 12.25.2025 1:37 AM The Christmas season is a time to reflect on what we have, which includes the kind of...

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Veronique De Rugy

Mamdani's $6 Billion Child Care Expansion Would Be a Handout to Wealthy New Yorkers

Policy Liz Wolfe | From the February/March 2026 issue In the February/March 2026 issue of Reason, we explore Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's policy...

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Liz Wolfe

When Washington Crossed the Delaware on Christmas 1776, It Wasn't in the Name of Christian Nationalism

Conservatism Steven Greenhut | 12.25.2025 7:30 AM I grew up a few miles from where George Washington and his Continental Army crossed the Delaware...

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Steven Greenhut

Thoughts on the Supreme Court Ruling Against Trump in the Illinois National Guard Case

Donald Trump The decision is a preliminary "shadow docket" ruling. But it strongly suggests the majority believes Trump's use of the Guard is...

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Ilya Somin

Searching Old Digital Haystacks: Some Thoughts on the Richman v. United States Litigation

Interesting Fourth Amendment issues, with a novel remedy. Orin S. Kerr | 12.24.2025 3:09 PM In federal district court in Washington, DC, Judge...

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Orin S. Kerr

No Pseudonymity in Ex-Professor's Sexual Harassment and Assault Lawsuit Against Norwich University

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 12.24.2025 8:01 AM From Doe v. Norwich University , decided last week by Washington County (Vermont) Superior Court...

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Eugene Volokh

Evidence of Plaintiff's Suicide Excluded in Lawsuit Alleging Threats of Prosecution Aimed at Censoring His Posts About High School Girls' Bathrooms

Free Speech "Plaintiff has not alleged that Defendants' conduct caused a mental condition in which Mr. McBreairty could not control his suicidal...

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Eugene Volokh

Conviction for Use "of Racially Charged Language" to Police Officer

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 12.24.2025 8:34 AM From Montmouth County (N.J.) Superior Court Judge Michael Guadagno's opinion in State v. Metcalfe,...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 24, 1798

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Josh Blackman

Brickbat: Cool Down

New York City Charles Oliver | 12.24.2025 4:00 AM The New York City Council has passed a bill that would require landlords to provide air...

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Charles Oliver

John Roberts Serves A Blue Plate Special, And The Progressives Forget All Of Their Complaints About The Shadow Docket

Trump v. Illinois is Robertsian faux minimalism at its worst. Josh Blackman | 12.24.2025 1:44 AM Trump v. Illinois is the kind of Supreme Court...

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Josh Blackman

Refusing To Let Trump Deploy the National Guard in Chicago, SCOTUS Adds a New Wrinkle To the Debate

Executive Power Jacob Sullum | 12.24.2025 1:55 PM The Supreme Court yesterday declined to let President Donald Trump deploy federalized National...

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Jacob Sullum

How Tariffs and Inflation Are Hitting Holiday Sweets

Tariffs Fiona Harrigan | 12.24.2025 7:00 AM Americans are paying more for all kinds of festive products this year, from decorations to toys to...

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Fiona Harrigan

How 'Deck the Halls' Lost Its Booze

Christmas Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.24.2025 8:00 AM "Don we now our gay apparel." When countless Americans sing this line each Christmas season,...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

How Robert Crumb Inspired the Underground Comix Movement

Comics Jay Kinney | From the January 2026 issue Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life , by Dan Nadel, Scribner, 480 pages, $35 "In the spring of 1962, an...

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Jay Kinney

The DOJ Assails D.C.'s 'Assault Weapon' Ban As an Arbitrary, Historically Ungrounded Gun Law

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 12.24.2025 5:15 PM In Washington, D.C., a gun cannot be legally owned unless it is registered, and it cannot be...

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Jacob Sullum

Trump's Marijuana Order Vindicates Longstanding Criticism of the Plant's Legal Classification

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 12.24.2025 12:01 AM Nearly four decades ago, Francis Young, chief administrative law judge at the Drug Enforcement...

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Jacob Sullum

Why College Students Prefer Socialism—and Why They're Wrong

Capitalism John Stossel | 12.24.2025 12:30 AM People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation Lab poll says, "College students prefer...

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John Stossel

Another New Mexico Cop Lauded for Nabbing Drunk Drivers Admits Taking Bribes To Let Them Off the Hook

Corruption Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2025 4:45 PM In September 2021, Albuquerque police officer Timothy McCarson arrested an intoxicated driver who had...

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Jacob Sullum

Why the Economic Impact of Immigration Restrictions is Similar to that of Racial Discrimination and Apartheid

Immigration Economist Tarnell Brown explains. Ilya Somin | 12.23.2025 4:46 PM In an insightful recent post, economist Tarnell Brown explains why...

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Ilya Somin

Politicians Say AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Costs. That's Not How Energy Prices Work.

Artificial Intelligence Marc Oestreich | 12.23.2025 4:00 PM A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts...

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Marc Oestreich

New York Attorney General Forum Shops Case Against CFPB to Judge Aiken in Eugene Division of District of Oregon

AG James had a 100% chance of drawing a Democratic appointee, and drew a judge that the Ninth Circuit had to repeatedly reverse. Josh Blackman |...

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Josh Blackman

Lessons of the Heritage Foundation's Implosion

Conservatism The decline of this major conservative institution has been a wakeup call for conservative intellectuals. But will they draw the right...

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Ilya Somin

Volokh Conspiracy Commenter ReaderY Makes The Big Time!

Free Speech Comment on this blog = reaction "from the Stanford Law School" = "negative reaction of the legal community." Eugene Volokh | 12.23.2025...

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Eugene Volokh

5 Things You Should Know About the Latest Bari Weiss 60 Minutes Controversy

Media Criticism Robby Soave | 12.23.2025 3:19 PM CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss intervened to prevent 60 Minutes from airing a segment on the...

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Robby Soave

10 Times That 2025 Tried To Stop Kids From Growing Up

Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy | 12.23.2025 3:00 PM Free-range parents may remember 2025 as the year that proved just how hard it still is to give...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 28, 1856

Josh Blackman

Research Suggests People Who Work From Home Are Having More Babies

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Today in Supreme Court History: December 27, 1771

Josh Blackman

The John Galt of Comic Books

Brian Doherty

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

John Ross

Trial Court Had Ordered Mother to Only Call Son by First Name (Javier), not Middle Name (Reece), in Public

Eugene Volokh

Were Statements in Roblox Chats About "Deal[ing] a Grievous Wound upon the Followers of the Cross" True Threats on Violence?

Eugene Volokh

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Representing Benjamin Gitlow: Charles Recht and Walter Nelles," by Eric Easton

Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 26, 1907

Josh Blackman

From Nixon to Trump, the 'War on Drugs' Has Been a Disaster for Americans' Freedom

Steven Greenhut

Review: A Novel About Masculinity and Weightlifting

Peter Suderman

"[T]he First and Fifth Amendments Require ICE to Provide Information About the Whereabouts of a Detained Person"

Eugene Volokh

Here Are 5 Wars Trump Started or Expanded in 2025

Matthew Petti

Discrimination and Defamation Claim Stemming from Firing Based on Allegedly Racist Conduct Can Go Forward

Eugene Volokh

Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is 'Domestic Terrorism'

Autumn Billings

Brickbat: Big Boss Man

Charles Oliver

The Logical Consequence of Enforcing Indigenous Treaties

Josh Blackman

Archives: January 2026

Reason Staff

The Fourth Amendment's Erratic Year at the Supreme Court

Damon Root

How Does He Know When You've Been Bad or Good?

Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 25, 2009

Josh Blackman

Brickbat: the Music Man

Charles Oliver

The Most Overlooked Holiday Miracle: Abundance

Veronique De Rugy

Mamdani's $6 Billion Child Care Expansion Would Be a Handout to Wealthy New Yorkers

Liz Wolfe

When Washington Crossed the Delaware on Christmas 1776, It Wasn't in the Name of Christian Nationalism

Steven Greenhut

Thoughts on the Supreme Court Ruling Against Trump in the Illinois National Guard Case

Ilya Somin

Searching Old Digital Haystacks: Some Thoughts on the Richman v. United States Litigation

Orin S. Kerr

No Pseudonymity in Ex-Professor's Sexual Harassment and Assault Lawsuit Against Norwich University

Eugene Volokh

Evidence of Plaintiff's Suicide Excluded in Lawsuit Alleging Threats of Prosecution Aimed at Censoring His Posts About High School Girls' Bathrooms

Eugene Volokh

Conviction for Use "of Racially Charged Language" to Police Officer

Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 24, 1798

Josh Blackman

Brickbat: Cool Down

Charles Oliver

John Roberts Serves A Blue Plate Special, And The Progressives Forget All Of Their Complaints About The Shadow Docket

Josh Blackman

Refusing To Let Trump Deploy the National Guard in Chicago, SCOTUS Adds a New Wrinkle To the Debate

Jacob Sullum

How Tariffs and Inflation Are Hitting Holiday Sweets

Fiona Harrigan

How 'Deck the Halls' Lost Its Booze

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

How Robert Crumb Inspired the Underground Comix Movement

Jay Kinney

The DOJ Assails D.C.'s 'Assault Weapon' Ban As an Arbitrary, Historically Ungrounded Gun Law