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America is slipping steadily down the slippery slope to a surveillance state.

City Journal's Rafael Mangual and Charles Fain Lehman debate Reason's Billy Binion and Jacob Sullum on legalizing all drugs.

The Supreme Court's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton weakens the First Amendment rights of adults everywhere.

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to open city-owned grocery stores. The U.S. already has a few, and they're a cautionary tale.

It's Trump v. CASA, Inc.; Sam was cited extremely heavily (16 times by my count). The post Congratulations to Sam Bray and Will Baude, Cited in the Universal Injunction Case appeared first on Reason.com.

Classroom commandments, the FBI's Most Wanted, and a phone book artifice.

Democratic critics of the new program overlook the injustice of permanently disarming Americans who pose no threat to public safety.

More government agencies are using facial recognition for enforcement than ever before.

Marcy Rheintgen was the first person to be arrested for trying to challenge Florida's bathroom bill. The case against her has been tossed out.

What are the First Amendment rights of minors? You might imagine two extreme positions: Minors have the same rights as… The post Today's Porn Age Verification Decision Doesn't Consider Minors' First Amendment Rights More Broadly appeared first on Reason.com.

The lawsuit is a win not just for Anthropic, but for all users of large language models.

Prohibiting the distribution of porn to minors, the Court says, legitimately carries with it some burdens on adults as well, when the burdens are closely linked to distinguishing the adults and the minors.

The Supreme Court may have reached the wrong result in FCC v. Consumers Research. But ruling emphasizes there are significant constitutional limits to legislative delegation to the executive.

"Strict scrutiny is unforgiving because it is the standard for reviewing the direct targeting of fully protected speech.... [A]s a practical matter, it is fatal in fact absent truly extraordinary circumstances."

Justice Jackson cites my Notre Dame Law Review article, and Justice Gorsuch cites the amicus brief I wrote for the Reason Foundation.

“Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch,” declared Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Today's Supreme Court ruling barring nationwide injunctions could empower the federal government to engage in large-scale violations of the Constitution. Exactly how bad the consequences will be depends on the extent to which other remedies can be used to…

A nice touch, I thought, in Justice Kagan's dissent in today's Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton: To account for that… The post "See (Sorry)": A New Citation Signal appeared first on Reason.com.

From today's majority opinion by Justice Thomas in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton: Age-verification laws like H. B. 1181 fall… The post Porn, Guns, Marriage, and Voting appeared first on Reason.com.

Other than the Chief, Justice Kagan wrote the fewest opinions.

The trade deficit is getting bigger, the deals aren't coming, and foreign investment has declined.

The two newest justices spar over universal injunctions.

From Justice Jackson's concurrence today in FCC v. Consumers' Research: Respondents in this case have challenged the Federal Communications Commission's……

A roaring, swaggering, immensely entertaining throwback to the Jerry Bruckheimer Dad Action Movies of yore.

Justice Barrett writes for the Court's majority that universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable power of federal courts.

Dismissing asylum applications for migrants who entered the U.S. unlawfully would boost immigration-related arrests, but have little impact on public safety.

Plus: Trump the Jacksonian, a big day for SCOTUS decisions, and more...

The Seventh Circuit is generally much more hesitant than courts in other circuits to allow pseudonymity in such cases.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York has repeatedly missed opportunities to forthrightly condemn antisemitic violence.