👤 Ilya Somin

2026-09-15 · Reason · Politics

Supreme Court Refuses to Block Lower-Court Ruling Against Trump's Mail-in Ballot Executive Order

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2026-09-11 · Reason · Politics

First Circuit Refuses to Stay District Court Injunction Against Trump's Executive Order on Mail-In Voting

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2026-08-24 · Reason · Politics

Trump Imposes Harmful and Illegal Section 338 Tariffs Against Many Canadian Imports

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2026-09-14 · Reason · Politics

Major Questions, Nondelegation, and the Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

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2026-09-21 · Reason · Education

Exit, Voice, and Nikole Hannah-Jones

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2026-10-01 · Reason · Politics

Second Federal Court Rules Against Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

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2026-08-24 · Reason

🔮 I expect there will be legal challenges to these tariffs, and those challenges will deserve to prevail. assertive

2026-09-11 · Reason

🔮 It requires action by the States' "chief election official[s]" and its policy justification is "protect[ing] the integrity of federal elections…."To the extent that appellants argue that we should read statutes authorizing the Postal Service to issue general postal regulations as supplying the necessary congressional authorization for the Final Rule, see 39 U.S.C. § 401(2) (authorizing USPS to make "such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this title, as may be necessary in the execution of its functions"); id. § 401(10) (authorizing USPS to exercise "all other powers incidental, necessary, or appropriate to the carrying on of its functions or the exercise of its specific powers"); id. § 404(a)(1) (conferring on USPS the power "to provide for the collection, handling, transportation, delivery, forwarding, returning, and holding of mail, and for the disposition of undeliverable mail") assertive

2026-09-14 · Reason

🔮 In this post, I will explain how the legal case against these actions is bolstered by the major questions and nondelegation doctrines. assertive

2026-09-14 · Reason

🔮 Here's a summary of our brief, which I prepared for the Cato website (which will also post the brief soon): assertive

2026-09-15 · Reason

🔮 Other contributors include prominent scholars and commentators, such as VC co-blogger Jonathan Adler (William and Mary), Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Samuel Moyn (Yale), Andrew McCarthy (National Review), Molly Reynolds (Brookings Institution), Rick Hasen, John McGinnis (Northwestern), Julia Azari, Aziz Huq (Chicago), Robert George (Princeton), and many more. assertive

2026-09-21 · Reason

🔮 Hannah-Jones hoped that putting her daughter there would help improve education for disadvantaged minority children, as her family's wealth and skills as political activists might stimulate reforms. assertive

2026-09-29 · Reason

🔮 Two recent books further explain the socialist elements of Nazi economic policy, and will hopefully put the final nails in the coffin of the myth that the Nazis were "capitalists" or free marketeers. assertive

2026-10-01 · Reason

🔮 That suggests appellate courts (and, ultimately, perhaps, the Supreme Court) might rule the same way. assertive

2026-10-01 · Reason

🔮 I commend Wolfers and the others for being willing to admit error and learn from it. assertive

2026-10-02 · Reason

🔮 We should not allow emergency powers intended to be used only in extreme situations to become a blank check that the executive can wield at will. assertive

2026-10-04 · Reason

🔮 And almost none of us would trade it for any of the alternatives actually on offer. assertive

2026-10-05 · Reason

🔮 And, as with tariffs, interpreting these authorities in a way that gives the president a blank check to impose import bans would run afoul of the major questions doctrine and constitutional nondelegation. assertive

2026-10-06 · Reason

🔮 What would they make of that language? assertive

2026-10-07 · Reason

🔮 I wish there was something I could say to ease the continuing pain of the victims of the attack and their families. assertive

2026-10-15 · Reason

🔮 But some would like to revive it. assertive