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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 7, 1941

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Josh Blackman

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Nick Gillespie

The Baffling Opinion in the Yakoby v. University of Pennsylvania Title VI Case

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Trump Thinks a $100,000 Visa Fee Would Make Companies Hire More Americans. It Could Do the Opposite.

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Today in Supreme Court History: December 6, 1865

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Josh Blackman

Review: Progressive Myths Rebuts the Left's Histrionic Takes

Politics Jack Nicastro | From the January 2025 issue Michael Huemer's new book Progressive Myths aims to inoculate readers against what the...

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Jack Nicastro

Virginia's New Blue Trifecta Puts Right-To-Work on the Line

Virginia C. Jarrett Dieterle | 12.6.2025 7:00 AM Given its proximity to Washington, D.C., Virginia has long had a reputation for its off-year...

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C. Jarrett Dieterle

Ayn Rand Denounced the FCC's 'Public Interest' Censorship More Than 60 Years Ago

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Robby Soave

Join Me in Donating to Reason

Eugene Volokh | 12.6.2025 12:41 PM I just gave to Reason, to support their excellent coverage and analysis. We are editorially independent...

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Eugene Volokh

"As Colossal a Collection of Excuses and Projection as the Court Has Seen in 25 Years on the Bench," Says Court About Lawyer's Response in Fabricated Citation Dispute

AI in Court Eugene Volokh | 12.6.2025 12:14 PM From The Doc App, Inc. v. Leafwell, Inc. , decided Nov. 26 by Judge Sheri Polster Chappell (M.D. Fla...

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Eugene Volokh

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Sealed Justice: Federal Courts' Inconsistent Record-Sealing Rules and Their Impact on Judicial Transparency," by David Ardia

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 12.5.2025 8:01 AM The article is here; the Introduction: Open courts are a cornerstone of democratic government,...

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Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: Highway Robbery

California Charles Oliver | 12.5.2025 4:00 AM West Covina, California, police officer Jose Antonio Garcia has been charged with one felony count of...

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Charles Oliver

Texas Governor Strips Two Muslim Groups of the Right to Buy Land in the State by Calling Them Terrorists

Due Process J.D. Tuccille | 12.5.2025 7:00 AM For years, Americans have complained about watch lists that subject people to extra scrutiny and...

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Mamdani and Trump Getting Chummy Is America's 'Horseshoe Theory' Nightmare

Donald Trump Steven Greenhut | 12.5.2025 7:30 AM In the run-up to New York City's mayoral election, Donald Trump let loose with one of his...

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Steven Greenhut

Today in Supreme Court History: December 5, 1933

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Josh Blackman

Plaintiff Can Add Claims to Case Alleging Carnegie Mellon Prof Said Time on Jewish-Related Project "Would Have Been Better Spent" Exploring "What Jews Do to Make Themselves Such a Hated Group"

Free Speech One claim is that CMU's Chief Diversity Officer illegally recorded meeting with student and the accused professor—and then apparently "...

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Eugene Volokh

French Study on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Finds a Drop in Severe COVID—and No Increase in Deaths

Vaccines Ronald Bailey | 12.5.2025 4:25 PM A few years before he took over the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

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Ronald Bailey

Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Birthright Citizenship (This Time for Real)

Birthright Citizenship The justices grant certiorari before judgment in one of the two cases challenging the Trump Administration's attempt to...

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Jonathan H. Adler

Reason Webathon Woodchips Through $400,000 Goal Before the Halfway Point!

Webathon Matt Welch | 12.5.2025 2:20 PM Holy hell, you people are explosively generous! Before noon on the fourth day of Reason's annual...

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Matt Welch

The Partisanship of Justice Kagan's Abbott v. LULAC Dissent

In a SCOTUS first, Justice Kagan refers to "red and blue states" and implied that redistricting was a mark of "loyalty" to Trump. Josh Blackman |...

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Josh Blackman

What America Can Learn From Japanese Housing

Housing Policy Andrew Heaton | 12.5.2025 11:00 AM I don't own a home. In fact, I don't even sleep in one. Houses are so expensive that, to save for...

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Andrew Heaton

Review: The British Spy Novelist Beloved by Fellow Spies

Espionage Matthew Petti | From the January 2026 issue John le Carré's characters were the opposite of James Bond. Like Bond creator Ian Fleming, le...

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Matthew Petti

Review: The Paper Parodies Work Life at a Struggling Local Newspaper

Entertainment C.J. Ciaramella | From the January 2026 issue Peacock attempted to recapture the magic of The Office in The Paper , a spin-off...

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D.C. Circuit Upholds Presidential Removal of MSPB and NLRB Members

Appointments Clause On the eve of Trump v. Slaughter, the D.C. Circuit offers a way to distinguish Humphrey's Executor. Jonathan H. Adler |...

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Jonathan H. Adler

X Gets Fined

Social Media Liz Wolfe | 12.5.2025 9:30 AM European Union slaps Elon Musk on the wrist: As of today, X became the first company to be fined (to the...

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Liz Wolfe

Seventh Circuit Rejects Claim That Eviction for Flying Palestinian Flag Violated Discrimination Law

The apartment building owner told plaintiff "to take the flag down pursuant to a policy that the building would stay 'neutral' amidst the Israel-...

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Eugene Volokh

How Israeli Lawyers Vet Bombing Targets

David Bernstein | 12.5.2025 11:59 AM This past week, I was in Israel with a group of lawyers from the US, Canada, Bulgaria, and Latvia on a trip...

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David Bernstein

The 'Threat' That Supposedly Justified Killing 2 Boat Attack Survivors Was Entirely Speculative

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2025 1:45 PM On Thursday, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, commander of the newly controversial September 2 operation that...

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Jacob Sullum

Abbott v. LULAC and Trump v. Anderson

Both cases attempted to hijack the Fourteenth Amendment to help one political party. Josh Blackman | 12.5.2025 12:57 PM In the moment, it is very...

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Josh Blackman

My New Washington Examiner Article on "Foot Voting, Housing, and Affordability"

Property Rights We can make housing more affordable and empower people to "vote with their feet" by curbing exclusionary zoning. Left and right...

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Ilya Somin

Ask Us Anything: Libertarians Answer Your Questions

Webathon Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Robby Soave, and Matt Welch | 12.5.2025 5:03 PM HD Video Download It's that time of year when we ask...

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Peter Suderman

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

Politics A bag of cash, Senate confirmations, and removal for cause. John Ross | 12.5.2025 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit,...

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John Ross

Philip Hamburger on "The Importance of Granting Cert in Canna Provisions v. Bondi"

Marijuana Columbia Prof. Philip Hamburger urges the Supreme Court to hear this caseand take the opportunity to overturn Gonzales v. Raich. Ilya...

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Ilya Somin

Warner Bros. Accepts Netflix's $83 Billion Bid, but Antitrust Threats Still Loom

Entertainment Jack Nicastro | 12.5.2025 3:36 PM Netflix announced its plan to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for $83 billion on Friday. The...

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Jack Nicastro

The Cyberselfish Revival Shows Libertarianism Continues To Be Misunderstood

Libertarianism Brian Doherty | 12.4.2025 2:00 PM Paulina Borsook was an early writer for Wired magazine in the 1990s who became alarmed by what she...

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Brian Doherty

The Supreme Court Should Hear Case Seeking to Overturn Gonzales v. Raich

Federalism Raich is one of the Court's worst federalism decisions, holding that Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce allows it to ban...

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Ilya Somin

Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled?

Education Emma Camp | 12.4.2025 12:12 PM The students at America's elite universities are supposed to be the smartest, most promising young people...

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Emma Camp

Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation Can't Sue Inter-American Development Bank as a Pseudonymous "Doe Corporation"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 12.4.2025 4:42 PM From today's Doe Corp. 1 v. Inter-American Development Bank , decided by D.C. Circuit Judges Karen...

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Eugene Volokh

Boat Attack Commander Says He Had To Kill 2 Survivors Because They Were Still Trying To Smuggle Cocaine

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 12.4.2025 3:15 PM If we call a cocaine smuggler an "unlawful combatant" in an "armed struggle" against the United...

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Jacob Sullum

Leaving AI Regulation to the States Could Strangle AI

Artificial Intelligence Jack Nicastro | 12.4.2025 1:15 PM Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly in the United States, but one thing...

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Jack Nicastro

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Gitlow as a Guide to Holmes," by Joseph Blocher

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

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Eugene Volokh

$2900 in Sanctions for AI Hallucinations in Filings by Self-Represented Litigant

AI in Court Eugene Volokh | 12.4.2025 1:05 PM From Monday's decision in Lothamer Tax Resolution, Inc. v. Kimmel , by Chief Judge Hala Jarbou (W.D....

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Eugene Volokh

Razzle Dazzle Racism

Brown, Milliken, and Judge Brown. Josh Blackman | 12.4.2025 8:29 PM Today the Supreme Court decided the Texas redistricting case by a 6-3 vote....

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Josh Blackman

Libel Lawsuit over Critical Race Theory Book That Accused Doctor of "Mass Hysterectomies"

Politics Eugene Volokh | 12.4.2025 8:28 AM Last year, Dr. Mahendra Amin prevailed in part in his lawsuit against NBC over certain accusations; from...

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Eugene Volokh

Defamation Lawsuit Over Peacock TV Docuseries "Duplicity: A True Story of Crime and Deceit" Can Go Forward

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 12.4.2025 8:52 AM From Doe v. Finkelman , decided yesterday by the Florida Court of Appeal by Judge Spencer Levine,...

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Eugene Volokh

Anti-Stalking Injunction Requires More Than Just a Showing of "Being Weirded Out or Uncomfortable"

Free Speech "[Appellants'] homemade signs talked about May being mental health awareness month, one referenced the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 4, 1933

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Josh Blackman

New Legal Trouble for a Father Still Mourning His Son

Parental Rights Lenore Skenazy | 12.4.2025 11:55 AM North Carolina dad Sameule Jenkins is due back in court this month on charges stemming from the...

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Lenore Skenazy

Federal Judge Confirms What We Already Knew: DHS Is Breaking Its Own Rules in D.C. Immigration Arrests

Immigration Autumn Billings | 12.4.2025 11:37 AM President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign received a legal setback on Tuesday when a...

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Eugene Volokh

Today in Supreme Court History: December 7, 1941

Josh Blackman

Why I Support Reason with a Tax-Deductible Donation (and You Should Too!)

Nick Gillespie

The Baffling Opinion in the Yakoby v. University of Pennsylvania Title VI Case

David Bernstein

Trump Thinks a $100,000 Visa Fee Would Make Companies Hire More Americans. It Could Do the Opposite.

Fiona Harrigan

Today in Supreme Court History: December 6, 1865

Josh Blackman

Review: Progressive Myths Rebuts the Left's Histrionic Takes

Jack Nicastro

Virginia's New Blue Trifecta Puts Right-To-Work on the Line

C. Jarrett Dieterle

Ayn Rand Denounced the FCC's 'Public Interest' Censorship More Than 60 Years Ago

Robby Soave

Join Me in Donating to Reason

Eugene Volokh

"As Colossal a Collection of Excuses and Projection as the Court Has Seen in 25 Years on the Bench," Says Court About Lawyer's Response in Fabricated Citation Dispute

Eugene Volokh

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Sealed Justice: Federal Courts' Inconsistent Record-Sealing Rules and Their Impact on Judicial Transparency," by David Ardia

Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: Highway Robbery

Charles Oliver

Texas Governor Strips Two Muslim Groups of the Right to Buy Land in the State by Calling Them Terrorists

J.d. Tuccille

Mamdani and Trump Getting Chummy Is America's 'Horseshoe Theory' Nightmare

Steven Greenhut

Today in Supreme Court History: December 5, 1933

Josh Blackman

Plaintiff Can Add Claims to Case Alleging Carnegie Mellon Prof Said Time on Jewish-Related Project "Would Have Been Better Spent" Exploring "What Jews Do to Make Themselves Such a Hated Group"

Eugene Volokh

French Study on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Finds a Drop in Severe COVID—and No Increase in Deaths

Ronald Bailey

Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Birthright Citizenship (This Time for Real)

Jonathan H. Adler

Reason Webathon Woodchips Through $400,000 Goal Before the Halfway Point!

Matt Welch

The Partisanship of Justice Kagan's Abbott v. LULAC Dissent

Josh Blackman

What America Can Learn From Japanese Housing

Andrew Heaton

Review: The British Spy Novelist Beloved by Fellow Spies

Matthew Petti

Review: The Paper Parodies Work Life at a Struggling Local Newspaper

C.j. Ciaramella

D.C. Circuit Upholds Presidential Removal of MSPB and NLRB Members

Jonathan H. Adler

X Gets Fined

Liz Wolfe

Seventh Circuit Rejects Claim That Eviction for Flying Palestinian Flag Violated Discrimination Law

Eugene Volokh

How Israeli Lawyers Vet Bombing Targets

David Bernstein

The 'Threat' That Supposedly Justified Killing 2 Boat Attack Survivors Was Entirely Speculative

Jacob Sullum

Abbott v. LULAC and Trump v. Anderson

Josh Blackman

My New Washington Examiner Article on "Foot Voting, Housing, and Affordability"

Ilya Somin

Ask Us Anything: Libertarians Answer Your Questions

Peter Suderman

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

John Ross

Philip Hamburger on "The Importance of Granting Cert in Canna Provisions v. Bondi"

Ilya Somin

Warner Bros. Accepts Netflix's $83 Billion Bid, but Antitrust Threats Still Loom

Jack Nicastro

The Cyberselfish Revival Shows Libertarianism Continues To Be Misunderstood

Brian Doherty

The Supreme Court Should Hear Case Seeking to Overturn Gonzales v. Raich

Ilya Somin

Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled?

Emma Camp

Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation Can't Sue Inter-American Development Bank as a Pseudonymous "Doe Corporation"