So concludes Guobadia v. Williams, decided Mar. 31 by Judge Mark Cohen (N.D. Ga.): Plaintiff is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who currently resides in the United Arab Emirates, and is the founder and CEO of SIMCOL Group, an investment company involved in various industries, including energy and hospitality…. Defendant is known for her role on […]
David Hogg gets the boot: “David Hogg, the young vice chair of the Democratic National Committee who divided the party over his plans to intervene in primary races against sitting Democratic lawmakers, said that he would step aside from his prominent post after the party voted to force him to run again on Wednesday,” reports The New […]
President Donald Trump has unilaterally summoned thousands of members of the California National Guard into federal service in response to the protests and riots that have broken out in Los Angeles over his immigration crackdowns. But the federal law that Trump has cited in support of that National Guard deployment would seem to forbid the […]
In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to essentially abolish the department she runs. “Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them,” reads Trump’s order. “Ultimately, the Department of Education’s main functions can, and should, be […]
A federal judge sentenced Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Douglas Kirk to four months in prison after he was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of excessive force despite being previously convicted of a felony. In Febr Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians […]
President Donald Trump and many of his allies in Congress are making grand claims about the economic growth they say will result from the recently proposed “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Trump has accused critics of not understanding the budget proposal, “especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming.” A closer examination of the economic realities involved […]
Brian Wilson, the main composer and vocal arranger for the Beach Boys, famously known as “America’s Band,” has died at age 82. Born in the suburbs of Hawthorne, California, Wilson was a very typical American of the back half of the 20th century—a Hawthorne High quarterback, with a mean mofo of a dad who both […]
From Monday’s decision by Judge Douglas Harpool (W.D. Mo.) in McClanahan v. Trump, which I think reaches the correct result: On December 11, 2019, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13899, directing federal agencies to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (“IHRA”) definition of antisemitism in enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. On […]
Penny McCarthy is not now, and has never been, Carole Rozak. Yet in March 2024, half a dozen U.S. marshals accosted McCarthy in the front yard of her Phoenix home, insisting that she was Rozak, who was wanted on a warrant for failing to comply with parole conditions after she was released from a Texas […]
Monday’s decision by Judge Liles Burke (M.D. Ala.) in Boe v. Marshall dealt with whether the defendants should be able to publicly disclose documents that they had obtained in discovery. (The underlying case involves a challenge to Alabama’s restrictions on youth gender medicine.) First, the factual background: The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (“WPATH”) […]