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"I want to ask this," Nick Gillespie breathed into a microphone on November 10, 2016.

10/7/1982: I.N.S. v.

As I write, I have my virtual private network (VPN) set to show me as surfing the internet from Berlin, Germany, despite my location in Arizona, for no good reason other than that I can.

Farmington, New Mexico, officials have agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a family whose father was shot and killed by Farmington police.

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After Tennessee unsuccessfully tried to execute Christa Pike last week, an ambulance whisked her to a Nashville hospital, where the condemned murderer became a patient in urgent need of lifesaving care.

The latest edition of the Wall Street Journal's Potomac Watch podcast is an interview with Justice Samuel Alito (who, if you have not noticed, has a new book to promote).

In this segment of Free Media, Reason Senior Editor Robby Soave and Daily Caller Editor in Chief Amber Duke discuss the recent news of former President Barack Obama supporting Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for Senate, on the campaign tr…

When President Donald Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House on September 18, he was clear about his motivation.

In this segment of Free Media, Reason Senior Editor Robby Soave and Daily Caller Editor in Chief Amber Duke discuss new developments in the "Cornell Seven" lawsuit, especially in light of released audio between Jane Doe and one of the fraternity members.

Today the Chief Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit released this order: On March 24, 2023, the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit identified Complaint No.

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free.

Recently, Judge Ho of the Fifth Circuit issued a concurrence that cited my post, The Audition Trap.

A local school board in Minnesota has taken censorship to absurd heights.

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From Magistrate Judge James M.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has drawn scrutiny from across the political spectrum for his take on the future of AI.

The federal government built a system that records the lawful trading activity of tens of millions of Americans, invades their financial privacy, and makes investors pay for the surveillance.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent!

On Monday, the Energy Department unveiled a conditional loan package of up to $4.2 billion to retail electricity and power generation company Vistra Corp. to finance upgrades to nuclear power plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

"Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement."

Rentrée, interrupted: The fall season is termed rentrée in France, referring to the return to work and school after summer breaks.

I thought I'd pass along the amicus brief that I just filed yesterday on behalf of Prof.

The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society, by James Marriott, Doubleday, 208 pages, $26 The last few years have seen a glut of sky-is-falling books about kids.

10/6/2010: Snyder v.

A man in Evanston, Illinois, was injured after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents mistakenly detained him because he resembled a man they were looking for.

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I enjoyed being on this panel with Nita Farahany of Duke Law School and Daniel Solove of the George Washington University Law School where we debated the proper role of artificial intelligence in the creation and production of legal scholarship—and, more…

Justice Samuel Alito (CNP/AdMedia/Sipa/Newscom) In a recent Wall Street Journal article, based on his forthcoming book on the same subject, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito offers his take on constitutional originalism.

On this special edition of The Reason Roundtable, Senior Editor Robby Soave is joined by Associate Editor Liz Wolfe, reporter Reem Ibrahim, and Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller to discuss the sexual assault allegations against seven Cornell University fr…

From Judge James Ho's concurrence Friday in Pittsburgh Logistics Sys., Inc. v.

In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir, by Francis Fukuyama, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pages, $29 In his thirties, Francis Fukuyama was pursuing a respectable but low-key career as a RAND Corporation analyst and State Department bureaucrat focused on…

After Joseph Johnson was convicted of unauthorized marijuana cultivation in Colorado 11 years ago, his sentence was limited to probation.

Ten-year interest rates have vaulted from around 4.5 percent in July to nearly 5.3 percent this week.

New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars, by Rainer Zitelmann, Skyhorse Publishing, 282 pages, $32.99 Much of the public is unaware of the gradual transformation of space activity from a purely governmental arena to a commercial industr…

Robby Soave interviews Frances Haugen five years after she disclosed the Facebook Papers, just as her story is about to be dramatized in Aaron Sorkin's upcoming film The Social Reckoning.

Today, Lawfare published my new article "The President Doesn't Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import Bans."

I think the debate about Todd Butler's nomination to the Fifth Circuit has been revealing.

When Eagle Sports Range in Cudahy, Wisconsin, removed its three Flock Safety cameras in August, general manager Saad Jaber cited broader customer privacy concerns, not misuse at the range.

Occasionally, I hear people make arguments in favor of constitutional rights claims by arguing that the Constitution was set up to protect liberty.

I joined Facebook in 2004, Twitter in 2007, and Instagram in 2012—and I loved them.

Dan Osborn is running to become Nebraska's next U.S.

I appreciate my friend Michael Buschbacher taking the time to respond to my amicus brief in Suncor Energy v.

Bloodbath?

I am honored to open up the 18th Season of FantasySCOTUS.

The old Wantagh logo, from the 2020 version of the site (via Internet Archive).

An excerpt from McWilliams v.

The Harlan Institute is pleased to announce the Fifteenth Annual Virtual Supreme Court Competition.

This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Suncor Energy v.

Fiscal year 2026 ended last week, and while official figures aren't out yet, it looks like the federal government spent $2 trillion more than it took in.