From Thomas Starkie’s 1813 libel law treatise, pp. 199-200 (some paragraph breaks added): Were every malicious and oppressive act to be considered illegal, the law would be very agreeable to the theorist, but utterly unfit for the practical purposes of society, on account of the infinite perplexity and uncertainty which would occur in distinguishing between […]
The U.S. Constitution requires the president to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Yet President Donald Trump has not only refused to enforce the federal law banning TikTok, but his administration has also told multiple tech companies that they may openly violate the TikTok ban “without incurring any legal liability” because the Department […]
7/10/1832: President Jackson vetoes the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States. He wrote that the bill was unconstitutional. President Andrew Jackson The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 10, 1832 appeared first on Reason.com. Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians […]
This is part of Reason‘s 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. The suggestion that Argentina could be the home of a self-described libertarian president would have seemed far-fetched, to say the least, only a few years ago. Yet today Javier Milei’s Buenos Aires is the city where libertarian history is happening. […]
The district attorney’s office in Cobb County, Georgia, admitted a critical error led to the wrongful arrest of 83-year-old Alice Cordell in Bartow County, where she spent six hours in a holding cell for a crime she didn’t commit. Cordell’s family t Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to […]
This morning, at 11:00 ET, I spoke at the “Scholars and Scribes” Supreme Court Roundup at the Heritage Foundation. And this evening, at 6:00 CT, I spoke at the Houston Federalist Society’s Supreme Court Roundup. It has been some time since I did two events in two cities in the same day. (Back in 2012, […]
NA Yesterday, the Liberty Justice Center and IÂ filed our appellate brief VOS Selections, Inc. v. Trump, the case challenging Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs on behalf of five small businesses. We are working with Neal Katyal and Michael McConnell, both leading constitutional law scholars and appellate litigators. The case is before the US Court […]
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, 2025 (El Salvador Presidential Press Office)  Last month, Brennan Center attorneys Katherine Yon Ebright and Leah Tulin, and I submitted an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit case of W.M.M. […]
From Judge Tanya Chutkan (D.D.C.) today in U.S. v. Tamberg: Defendant Alexis James Andreas Tamberg pleaded guilty to transmitting threats in interstate commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) based on a series of Facebook messages threatening President Donald J. Trump and Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio Cortez. In light of Tamberg’s extensive mental health issues, […]
The feds are vacuuming up a lot of data on Americans in the name of stopping illegal immigration. Their latest target? Your insurance data. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now using data from the Insurance Services Office’s ClaimSearch, a private industry service for detecting car and health insurance fraud, according to ICE documents obtained […]