In the last episode of The Reason Roundtable in 2024, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman select undercovered stories from the past year across three categories: politics, global affairs, and private industry. Au revoir, 2024! 00:14—Undercovered stories in politics 18:07—Undercovered stories in global affairs 33:14—Undercovered stories in private industry/commerce 48:24—2024 under the radar cultural recommendations […]
A few moments ago, Jack Smith and his co-counsel filed a motion to withdraw from the Florida case: Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 27 and Eleventh Circuit Rule 27-1, the United States of America moves to withdraw from this case the following attorneys: Jay I. Bratt, David V. Harbach, II, James I. Pearce, […]
Portions of an Arkansas law that would have subjected librarians to criminal charges for letting kids check out books deemed “harmful to minors” were struck down by a federal judge last week, who ruled that parts of the law violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Act 372, signed into law by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders […]
In his first year as president, Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, urged Congress to decriminalize low-level marijuana possession, saying “penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.” Forty-three years later, Joe Biden, who for decades had […]
Former President Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at 100 years old. In the century he spent on earth, his single terms as U.S. president and governor of Georgia somehow pale in comparison to an extensive post-presidency spent building houses for the needy and winning a Nobel Peace Prize. But while there is much to consider […]
This suggests that, whatever one thinks of gerrymandering and of geographic representation (as opposed to proportional representation), they didn’t seem to have a particularly distortive effect on this year’s race. (For the aggregate House vote totals, I’m looking at the Cook Political Report totals.) As it happens, I don’t much like gerrymandering, though I’m not […]
Yesterday, I wrote about President-Elect Trump’s brief in the TikTok case, which urged the Court to “grant a stay to preserve the status quo in a case that presents novel.” Trump is not actually asking for a stay. A stay is used to put on hold a lower-court injunction. In this case, the D.C. Circuit […]
Prof. Eric Goldman (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) has the details; an excerpt from the majority opinion that Prof. Goldman highlights: [H]uman communication is often subtle. Words, phrases, gestures and symbols may carry more than one meaning. All of this gives rise to the potential for ambiguity and uncertainty and, Read More Article from Reason.com
The short introduction from the 17,000-word Carroll v. Trump, decided today by Second Circuit Judges Denny Chin, Susan Carney, and Myrna Pérez: In this case, after a nine-day trial, a jury found that plaintiff-appellee E. Jean Carroll was sexually abused by defendant-appellant Donald J. Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1996. […]
This is from David Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; other sources have slightly different numbers, but not by much (especially as to the two major candidates). This is about 1M less than I expected (on Nov. 11) for Harris and Trump, estimating based on the then-far-from-complete totals; and it shows that Harris received 6.3M fewer votes […]
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