Words of wisdom from Judge Jennifer Dorsey (D. Nev.) last week in Naessens v. Breslin: [The self-represented plaintiff] takes issue with an order of mine in an unrelated case calling a pro se plaintiff’s filings “wholly nonsensical” and argues that such language “suggests an undue predis Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine […]
This book demonstrates that, with few exceptions, the ECtHR’s general approach to hate speech has been overly expansive, often undervaluing both the significance of free speech and the harms resulting from the suppression of relatively low-threshold expressions. While this book does not advocate for an entire revision of the European approach to hate speech as […]
7/18/1942: Justice George Sutherland dies. Justice George Sutherland The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 18, 1942 appeared first on Reason.com. 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 […]
Officials in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate announced they will ban members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party from holding public office. The order would bar any applicants who are members of extremist groups or have been members within the past five years. Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website […]
The post Friday Open Thread appeared first on Reason.com. 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 diverse range of articles, videos, and podcasts […]
Yesterday, in Walmart v. Chief Administrative Law Judge, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected Walmart’s challenge to constitutionality protecting Administrative Law Judges in executive branch agencies from removal without cause. In an extensive and quite thorough opinion by Judge Hull, joined by Judges Jordan and Jill Pryor, the court concluded that […]
It’s not often that the word fuck comes up at a Senate confirmation hearing. But Sen. Adam Schiff (D–Calif.) said it six times during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s June 25 hearing on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has faced criticisms recently for agents wearing masks to conceal their identities while making immigration-related arrests. Now, immigration judges are withholding the names of lawyers representing ICE from public record, The Intercept revealed this week. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu, an immigration judge in New York […]
Eight healthy babies who have genes derived from three different parents have been born healthy in the United Kingdom. This happy result was reported in The New England Journal of Medicine. The treatment involved taking the nucleus from a fertilized egg that contained defective mitochondria and installing it into a donor egg with healthy mitochondria […]
After a slew of teen arrests related to illegal fireworks in Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood were made over the July 4 weekend, the city’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Juvenile Curfew Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 into law on July 7. The legislation expanded the city’s curfew to apply to all persons ages […]
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