A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Mar. 16, 2025Â (El Salvador Presidential Press Office) Â President Trump has been trying use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool for mass deportation. The AEA allows […]
(NA) Conservative Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby rightly decries a pernicious provision in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Buried near the end of the ludicrously named “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” approved by the House Budget Committee over the weekend is a new 5 percent tax on remittances [now reduced to 3.5%], the gifts of money […]
Rereading a 1995 article of mine reminded me of the late Vernor Vinge’s then-recent A Fire Upon the Deep (one of my favorite science fiction books). Referring to an inters Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, and thought-provoking commentary. Championing […]
(Photo 181642336 © Zimmytws | Dreamstime.com) The Trump Administration has been trying to leverage federal grants in ways that force various people and organizations to give up their constitutional rights or submit to constraints that go beyond the constitutional authority of the federal government. A standard response to criticisms of such policies that people have […]
5/25/1861: John Merryman arrested. Chief Justice Taney ruled that his detention was unconstitutional in Ex Pa Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, and thought-provoking commentary. Championing the principles of individual freedom, limited government, and free markets, the site offers a […]
The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism, by Sheena Michele Mason, Pitchstone Publishing, 256 pages, $17.95 Is race real? In The Raceless Antiracist, a follow-up to her 2022 book Theory of Racelessness, Sheena Michele Mason argues not only that it isn’t, but that trying to stop racism while keeping the concept of race […]
The Circuit Justices do not apply uniform rules when it comes to emergency applications. Justice Jackson, for example, refused to promptly call for a response in Libby v. Fectau, a case where the majority ultimately granted emergency docket relief. I have also been keeping my eye on Trump v. AFGE. On May 9, A federal […]
A draft of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed regulation to undo the Biden Administration’s regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is undergoing White House review. If finalized, this rule would end EPA regulation of greenhouse gases from power plants, and put on ice greenhouse gas regulation of other stationary sources under the Clean […]
(NA) On May 21, The US Court of International Trade (CIT) held oral arguments in Oregon v. Trump, a case challenging Trump’s massive IEEPA tariffs filed by twelve states led by the state of Oregon. The Oregon case is similar to that filed by the Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf of five US […]
An excerpt from Judge Ho’s concurrence in the Little v. Llano County en banc decision (he also joined the majority opinion as to listener interests and the seven-judge decision as to library curation decisions being government speech): The Constitution protects “the freedom of speech.” That freedom ensures that citizens are free to speak—not that we […]
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