Trump and his underlings seem less inclined to worry about the Second Amendment when it protects people outside the MAGA coalition. --- After immigration agents fatally shot Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti on January 24, federal officials described him as a "domestic terrorist" and [...]

How the digital privacy rights of millions are at stake in Chatrie v. United States. --- In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that warrantless government tracking of cellphone users via their cellphone location records violated the [...]

Jane Bambauer and I analyze the Supreme Court's new Chiles v. Salazar decision, which struck down (by an 8-1 vote)… The post Free Speech Unmuted: Speech, Not "Conduct": Supreme Court Rules on Conversion Talk Therapy appeared first on Reason.com. --- Jane Bambauer [...]

A new Florida law would allow state leaders to designate certain groups as terror organizations. --- A new Florida law, which will broaden the state's terrorism laws, has civil liberties groups worried about the future of free speech in the Sunshine [...]

The Administration's constitutional arguments are unconvincing, but rejecting them is not necessary to decide United States v. Barbara --- Last week the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Barbara, the case challenging the lawfulness of President Trump's anti-birthright-citizenship Executive [...]

From In the Matter of K.P., decided June 26, 2024 by the Massachusetts District Court Appellate Division (Judge Thomas L.… The post Massachusetts Denial of Gun Rights Restoration Reversed by Appellate Court appeared first on Reason.com. --- From In the Matter of [...]

In November of 2016, I discussed a then new report indicating that “at least 100,000 people in America each year plead guilty to drug charges supported by police-conducted drug field tests that do not reliably indicate whether a substance [...]

$1.5 trillion. With a “t.” That’s how much US president Donald Trump wants Congress to appropriate for military (falsely called “defense”) spending in 2027. And that number — there’s no other way to put this — is insane. The [...]

Cases involving Asian immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were prominent in the discussion because of laws that prevented them from entering the US and becoming citizens. --- Peter Van Doren On April 1, the Supreme Court heard oral [...]

Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden asked the Supreme Court to abolish nationwide injunctions, which allow federal judges to stop a federal policy from going into effect. --- You may have heard that the U.S. Supreme Court killed off the practice [...]