Reason New York Gov. Mario Cuomo (D) this week announced that he plans to impose an “emergency” ban on e-cigarettes in flavors other than tobacco and menthol. Like the recent decision …
A Charlottesville Circuit Court judge has ruled that the town’s Confederate monuments must remain in place, citing an early 20th century law that allows local governments to erect war memorials but …
Calligraphy is a form of expressive speech, and therefore the city of Phoenix cannot compel a local studio to create wedding invitations for same-sex couples, Arizona’s highest court ruled yesterday. …
Criticism of The New York Times‘ botched story on a previously unreported sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh prompted the paper to answer questions about the editorial process—though …
News reports often give the impression that human beings have wrecked the earth, the middle class is disappearing, and the world is getting more dangerous. “We are destroying the planet,” …
Randy Barnett and I are proud to announce An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know. All students even those unfamiliar with American history will learn …
An interesting—and, in my experience factually unusual—example of a lawsuit over an adult’s false statements about a 7th-grader. From Hamor v. Topol, 2019 WL 4325125 (Mass. Super. Ct. July 30, …
This week, in excerpts from a forthcoming article, I am offering several predictions about a post-qualified immunity world. Today, I explain why plaintiffs’ rate of success in civil rights cases …
In hindsight, I should have suspected we had crossed over some bizarre new threshold of weaponized policy rhetoric when the education bureaucrats selling a new middle school admissions system to …
Federal prosecutors have charged Fall River, Mass., Mayor Jasiel Correia with extortion conspiracy and aiding and abetting extortion for shaking down marijuana vendors for money in exchange for non-opposition letters …