For the past several years, states have been trying to regulate the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Out of the 635 AI-related bills considered in 2024, nearly 100 were signed into law, and 1,000 more bills have been proposed this year. A federal law that would prevent the proliferation of reactionary local AI regulation passed […]
On Friday, a federal appeals court affirmed an earlier ruling blocking a Louisiana law mandating that public school classrooms display posters of the Ten Commandments. The decision is the latest development in a series of state-level attempts to mandate religious instruction in public schools. “This is a resounding victory for the separation of church and […]
Police in Miami suspended an officer pending an investigation into an incident in which she sat in her patrol car while numerous bikers assaulted a man in front of her. Video shows the bikers not only beating the man but jumping on the hood and roof of his car and breaking his windshield, while the […]
Two former employees of Caltrain, a California public commuter rail line, were sentenced to jail for embezzling public funds to build secret apartments inside two train stations. Joseph Navarro, a former deputy director, was convicted of felony embezzlement and sentenced to 120 days in jail with Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine […]
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch examine the latest U.S. military strike on Iran, unpacking the bipartisan pattern of anti-war campaign rhetoric followed by hawkish foreign policy once in office. They debate whether intervention is ever justified, what escalation might look like, and why Congress keeps abdicating its war […]
There’s new evidence in Washington state that enforcement of campaign finance laws often isn’t about better government—it’s about punishing political opponents. Consider four recent cases there that reveal the system’s nature. The Service Employees International Union Healthcare 1199NW—a union of more than 30,000 healthcare workers across Washington, created by employees to advocate for common interests—failed […]
Photo 27165352 © Valentin M Armianu | Dreamstime.com In two previous posts, I critiqued a dangerous provision of the Senate version of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which – if enacted – would severely undermine judicial protection against unconstitutional federal government actions (see here and here). In the process, I highlighted critiques by Arizona Supreme Court […]
From today’s decision by Judge Timothy Savage (E.D. Pa.) in Wax v. Univ. of Pa.: After a lengthy disciplinary process, the University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”) found that longtime law professor Amy Wax had engaged in “flagrant unprofessional conduct.” It imposed sanctions of a one-year suspension at half pay, loss of summer pay in perpetuity, loss […]
When U.S. bombers attacked three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, the Iranian government downplayed the damage. And Iran’s response was a piece of kayfabe. Iranian missile forces launched 14 missiles, the same number of bunker-buster bombs dropped on Iran, at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. base in the Middle East. The Iranian […]
A characteristically excellent analysis, from a leading scholar of the subject, at his Executive Functions substack. An excerpt: A lot of people over the next few days are going to argue with confidence that President Trump violated, or didn’t violate, the Constitution when he bombed Iran over the weekend without congressional authorization. You might think […]