A cert petition was recently filed at the Supreme Court in Case v. Montana on the Fourth Amendment standards for entry into a home to help people in an emergency. The question presented: Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, […]
Last week, in Held v. Montana, the Montana Supreme Court held that the Montana Constitution’s guarantee of a “clean and healthful environment” encompasses a right to a “stable climate system that sustains human lives and liberties.” On this basis it concluded that legislative amendments to the State Energy Policy Act and Montana Environmental Policy Act barring […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman welcome special guest Tim Carney to the show. The panelists discuss Joe Biden’s commutations of 37 out of 40 federal death row sentences, before unpacking the latest on the traditional end-of-year struggle in Congress to pass a spending deal. 00:39 – […]
The Supreme Court last month declined to hear a case from an elderly woman whose house was destroyed by a SWAT team, leaving open the question of whether or not innocent people are constitutionally entitled to compensation when law enforcement lays waste to their property in pursuit of public safety. In July 2020, while chasing […]
From today’s decision in Doe v. Ga. Dep’t of Corrections, by Chief Judge William Pryor and Judges Adalberto Jordan and Stanley Marcus: Plaintiff-Appellee, Jane Doe, is a transgender woman currently in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections (“GDOC”) serving a sentence of life imprisonment. On December 6, 2023, she sued the GDOC and […]
In a report released today, the House Ethics Committee says it found “substantial evidence” that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R–Fla.), President-elect Donald Trump’s first pick for attorney general, paid women thousands of dollars for sex, used illegal drugs, committed statutory rape, and accepted gifts that violated the chamber’s rules. Gaetz concedes that he “probably partied, […]
Just as democracy means a system of government ruled by the dēmos, or the common people, gerontocracy refers to rule by the elderly. It was coined in the 19th century as a pejorative to describe the aged French parliament, but it can refer to any government whose leaders are of sufficiently advanced age. While being […]
An Arkansas statute (Act 372) makes it a crime (in its section 1) for librarians and booksellers to “[f]urnish a harmful item to a minor.” The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment doesn’t protect distribution of “obscenity,” a narrow category that basically covers hard-core pornography. To be obscenity, a work must satisfy […]
This holiday season, thousands of foreign-born religious workers find themselves unsure whether they’ll be allowed to continue serving their communities in the coming years thanks to a backlog in green card applications. Religious leaders are pushing for solutions as the Trump administration prepares to take office next month. Many churches and other places of worship […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs would result in higher prices, lower economic growth, less investment in the United States, reduced productivity by American workers, and fewer exports. On the other hand, they would marginally reduce the federal budget deficit. Those are the trade-offs presented in a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report analyzing Trump’s campaign trail […]
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