Concurrences are underrated. Though they don’t serve as the primary explanation for a court’s ruling, they can add crucial context to majority opinions and shape how we interpret them—and the law generally. For a reminder of this, we can look to the concurrence in the legal odyssey that is McMurry v. Weaver. A short primer: […]
Bill Kristol has had a change of heart. He is now opposed to the president sending alleged foreign enemies to rot in overseas prisons, and the claims of expansive executive powers and sprawling homeland security bureaucracy that enables him to do so. “[The Department of Homeland Security] DHS, it should all be defunded,” Kristol said […]
What is the FBI doing? Since the start of the Trump administration, the FBI has ramped up their use of polygraphs, or lie-detector tests. Used in the past to suss out whether employees can be trusted with secret information, the FBI under Director Kash Patel has a new application for polygraphs: Sniffing out whether employees […]
This week the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a controversial video that lionizes the work of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which it suggests is aimed at delivering divine justice to evildoers. The video quotes Isaiah 6:8, which describes the prophet’s acceptance of a mission from God, and includes an excerpt from the […]
In Turkey, four staff members of the satirical magazine LeMan were arrested on charges of inciting “public hatred and enmity” after publishing a cartoon that authorities claim depicted Muhammad, the founder of Islam. The cartoon, which LeM Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent […]
The Supreme Court quietly reversed a lower court decision this week in a ruling that largely flew under the radar. But the short order tells an interesting story about how the same body that created a cause of action for victims of federal abuse has since undermined that very right. The case concerns a man […]
Today’s guest is Susannah Cahalan, whose new book is The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary—muse, fugitive, and heavily indicted co-conspirator in Timothy Leary’s psychedelic revolution. She talks with Reason‘s Nick Gillespie about hippie communes, outlaw drug smuggling, the war on drugs—and how the ’60s counterculture, in its best moments, ran experiments in radical individualism, using […]
It’s not difficult to attract the attention of government officials, especially if you have a relatively high profile in business, political activism, or journalism. That can lead to difficulty crossing borders, even in countries with relatively firm civil liberties protections, such as the United States. Officials at border crossings often have powers beyond those of […]
It was inevitable that there would still be more questions than answers following the verdict this week in the case against Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman acquitted of murder and manslaughter in the death of her police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe. But a couple of things about this convoluted story are unambiguous. First: O’Keefe’s death […]
Last week, a federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s unilateral deployment of the California National Guard, saying that decision was illegal and unconstitutional. That same day, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit imposed an administrative stay on U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer’s order, and […]
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