👤 Jacob Sullum

2026-09-23 · Reason · Politics

After Banishing Journalists for Writing 'Purposely Negative' Stories, Trump Invokes 'National Security'

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2026-09-23 · Reason · Politics

Trump's Banishment of Disfavored News Outlets Reflects His Contempt for Freedom of the Press

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2026-10-07 · Reason · Crime & Law

Prettifying Executions Does Not Make Them Quicker or More Reliable

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2026-09-15 · Reason · Politics

Trump Again Condemns His Supreme Court Nominees As Too Cowardly To Agree With Him

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2026-10-02 · Reason · Politics

2 Lawsuits Cast Further Doubt on the Claim That ICE Agent Jonathan Ross Killed Renée Good in Self-Defense

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2026-10-12 · Reason · Politics

TV Networks Protested Press Bans by Declining To Cover Trump. That Might Have Been Illegal, the DOJ Says.

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2026-08-26 · Reason

🔮 Carr portrays the ABC review as a response to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" programs that may qualify as "unlawful discrimination." mixed

2026-08-27 · Reason

🔮 The case illustrates how the war on drugs invites police mendacity that may go undetected for years thanks to lax supervisors and credulous courts. assertive

2026-08-31 · Reason

🔮 The advisory, which describes the sort of information that criminals could glean from the back of your car, suggests you might be endangering yourself and your family with stickers that reveal potentially sensitive details about your life. assertive

2026-09-04 · Reason

🔮 But as he could have discovered if he had bothered to investigate Castro's claims, the ICE officer's account was inconsistent with video and physical evidence. assertive

2026-09-06 · Reason

🔮 During its next term, the Supreme Court will address the long-simmering question of whether "assault weapon" bans are consistent with the Second Amendment. assertive

2026-09-06 · Reason

🔮 Reps. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) and Eric Burlison (R–Mo.) this week introduced the Flock-Off Act, a bill that would bar federal funding of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) except at the border or for toll enforcement. assertive

2026-09-09 · Reason

🔮 The Institute for Justice has identified "well over 100" such incidents, which it notes "may be just the tip of the iceberg" given the reality of lax oversight and widespread data sharing. assertive

2026-09-11 · Reason

🔮 "The founders would have been astonished at the claim that legislatures may ban arms in common use if those arms can also be used for military purposes," he writes. assertive

2026-09-14 · Reason

🔮 Although most of the beer was boxed, a six-pack "was packed only in a grocery bag and would have been in plain view to Jouppi as he was loading the airplane," the Alaska Supreme Court noted last year. assertive

2026-09-15 · Reason

🔮 If the 5th Circuit agrees with Squire on that point, Judge Stephen Higginson warned in July, when the appeals court agreed to rehear the case, it will "have massive import for federal law," undermining "much of the United States Code." assertive

2026-09-15 · Reason

🔮 Although "there is at least a fair prospect" that the Postal Service would win on the merits, he said, "applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections." assertive

2026-09-16 · Reason

🔮 Streever called Lyons "a monstrous human being," likened him to the genocidal Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich, and predicted that he would be haunted by "shame at your own pathetic weakness" in defending the Pretti shooting "until your last day on Earth." That message was surely intemperate and insulting, but it was not illegal. assertive

2026-09-18 · Reason

🔮 Unless President Donald Trump can attach his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate warned last month, the building "will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down." assertive

2026-09-23 · Reason

🔮 If you don't cover me the way I like, Trump says, I will not let you cover me at all. assertive

2026-09-23 · Reason

🔮 The MS NOW letter lists three offending stories: a May 6 report that the FBI had "launched a criminal leak investigation" focusing on Atlantic writer Sarah Fitzpatrick, a June 11 blog post quoting an unnamed "White House official" who said Trump had "underestimated the willingness of Iran to resume conflict," and an August 6 story saying the Iran war had "significantly depleted" U.S. munitions. assertive

2026-09-26 · Reason

🔮 Those 11 exclamation points might have seemed like overkill. assertive

2026-09-28 · Reason

🔮 In the 1968 case Terry v. Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled that police may stop someone when they reasonably suspect he is involved in criminal activity and may frisk him if they reasonably suspect he is "armed and dangerous." assertive

2026-09-30 · Reason

🔮 For the time being, he said, only marijuana products currently sold by state-licensed medical dispensaries or approved in the future by the FDA would qualify for Schedule III. assertive

2026-09-30 · Reason

🔮 The planned reforms would build on progress that the FDA has made during the last couple of years, including its approval of nicotine pouches and vapes in flavors that former smokers demonstrably prefer. assertive

2026-10-02 · Reason

🔮 The day of the shooting, Trump averred that Good "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer" and that "it is hard to believe he is alive." assertive

2026-10-07 · Reason

🔮 Should Pike recover from two botched administrations of pentobarbital, which left her unconscious and unable to breathe on her own, she might travel that road in reverse after she is well enough to be killed. mixed

2026-10-07 · Reason

🔮 Less concretely, the White House says Trump has "backed law enforcement," which would seem to fall into the category of "presidential public safety signals," another potential factor that the crime experts considered. assertive

2026-10-09 · Reason

🔮 Although the relevance of those precedents might seem obvious, state and federal courts generally have perceived important differences between cellphone tracking and police use of roadside cameras that record images of passing cars. assertive

2026-10-12 · Reason

🔮 According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which last Friday demanded network communications regarding the TV pool, that show of solidarity may have violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. assertive

2026-10-14 · Reason

🔮 But in a decision that could signal a shift in the legal treatment of Flock cameras, a federal judge in Oklahoma recently recognized that they enable "a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance." assertive

2026-10-15 · Reason

🔮 Their divorced parents, Bart Rockett and Kami Ballard, agreed that Ballard, who at that point lived in Missouri, would have primary custody of the children, while Rockett, who was living in California, would be "responsible for them at the beginning of each month and 'during TV pilot season.'" assertive