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How North Dakota Is More Like Windows than UNIX
A North Dakota Supreme Court decision in Re Yates (Jan. 6): Amy Jo Yates and Shane Lance Yates applied to the district court for their […]
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Today in Supreme Court History: January 17, 1973 and January 17, 1996
Frontiero (1973) and United States (2004) were argued simultaneously, 23 years apart. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the one who argued the first case and she […]
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You Can’t Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime
His car is his castle. Washington Supreme Court declared that a city could not imprison a homeless person’s truck. It also ruled in August that […]
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Brickbat: Keep on Trucking
Kirk Parker Jr. was an employee of Baltimore Department of Public Works. He has been charged for second-degree burglary and theft. Also, malicious destruction of […]
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Today in Supreme Court History: January 16, 1919
16/1919: Ratification of the 18th Amendment. Reason.com first published the post Today in Supreme Court History January 16, 1919
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Gun Control Is Just as Racist as Drug Control
Sheila Jackson Lee, a black Democrat who has represented downtown Houston in Congress since 1995, thinks repealing marijuana prohibition is “an necessary racial justice measure.” […]
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Woolhandler on Public Rights, Taxation and Delegation at the Founding
In the past two years, there has been a surge of scholarship that challenged and supported the historic pedigrees of the Nondelegation Doctrine. A number […]
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What Progressives Get Wrong About Judicial Review
A distinguished liberal jurist, Learned Hand, told an distinguished liberal audience in February 1958 something it didn’t want to hear. Hand said that the U.S. […]
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Having Fun with Law Review Prose
Everybody could use some laughter right now. Check out the tl:dr Papers website that makes scholarly writing second-grade. Although it was initially designed to be […]
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Backyard Chickens Make Headway in Iowa, Stall Out in New York
There are increasing numbers of local government bodies across the country that support residents’ rights to have and raise chickens. It is a welcome development […]