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Billy Binion | 5.15.2024 5:01 PM Government abuse A SWAT TEAM BLEW UP THIS INNOCENT COUPLE'S HOME AND LEFT THEM WITH THE BILL. WAS THAT CONSTITUTIONAL? Mollie and Michael Slaybaugh are reportedly out over $70,000. The government says it is immune. Billy Binion | 5.10.2024 4:41 PM Donald Trump THE DETAILS OF STORMY DANIELS' STORY ABOUT SEX WITH TRUMP ARE LEGALLY IRRELEVANT Under the prosecution's theory, Trump would be guilty of falsifying business records even if Daniels made the whole thing up. Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2024 4:10 PM Government abuse TENNESSEE APPEALS COURT RULES AGAINST WILDLIFE AGENTS WHO PLANTED CAMERAS ON PRIVATE LAND The three-judge panel concluded unanimously that while the state law at issue is constitutional, the wildlife agents' application of it was not. Joe Lancaster | 5.10.2024 3:37 PM Donald Trump STORMY DANIELS' 'CREDIBILITY ISSUES' REFLECT A BROADER PROBLEM WITH KEY WITNESSES AGAINST TRUMP New York prosecutors are relying on testimony from several people who do not seem trustworthy. Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2024 4:05 PM First Amendment THIS STUDENT WAS ALLEGEDLY SUSPENDED FOR SAYING 'ILLEGAL ALIENS.' DID THAT VIOLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT? Christian McGhee is suing, arguing a North Carolina assistant principal infringed on his free speech rights. Billy Binion | 5.7.2024 6:31 PM Police Abuse TRUMP PROMISES TO GIVE POLICE 'IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION' The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability. Billy Binion | 5.3.2024 4:15 PM Criminal Justice THIS ELDERLY MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER SHOOTING A BURGLAR IN SELF-DEFENSE—FOR CARRYING THE GUN WITHOUT A LICENSE Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not be the last. Billy Binion | 5.1.2024 4:37 PM First Amendment ILLINOIS WON'T LET HIM DO HIS JOB FILING PAPERWORK—UNLESS HE GETS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE LICENSE David Knott helps clients retrieve unclaimed property from the government. The state has made it considerably harder for him to do that. Billy Binion | 4.30.2024 3:20 PM Israel WHERE DO LIBERTARIANS STAND ON THE CAMPUS WARS? Plus: A listener asks the editors about the magical thinking behind the economic ideas of Modern Monetary Theory. Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 4.29.2024 5:15 PM Criminal Justice THE COURT WAS RIGHT TO OVERTURN HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S RAPE CONVICTION The ruling has nothing to do with #MeToo. It is about ensuring a fair trial—a principle that applies no matter how unsympathetic the defendant. Billy Binion | 4.26.2024 3:28 PM Capitalism CAPITALISM MAKES SOCIETY LESS RACIST In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers. John Stossel | 4.24.2024 12:30 AM Donald Trump THE ALARMING IMPLICATIONS OF TRUMP'S IMMUNITY CLAIM The Supreme Court will decide whether former presidents can avoid criminal prosecution by avoiding impeachment and removal. Jacob Sullum | 4.24.2024 12:01 AM Criminal Justice U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION RESTRICTS FEDERAL JUDGES' ABILITY TO USE ACQUITTED CONDUCT AT SENTENCING The little-known but outrageous practice allowed judges to enhance defendants' sentences using conduct a jury acquitted them of. C.J. Ciaramella | 4.18.2024 12:38 PM Social Media SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS HAVE PROPERTY RIGHTS TOO The push to regulate social media content infringes on rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. Ethan Blevins | 4.16.2024 6:00 AM Police Abuse A COP SHOT HER 11-YEAR-OLD SON. NOW SHE MIGHT LOSE CUSTODY OF HER KIDS. The local prosecuting attorney in Sunflower, Mississippi, is seeking to take away Nakala Murry's three children. Billy Binion | 4.5.2024 5:01 PM 8th Amendment FEDERAL APPEALS COURT SAYS TEXAS INMATE'S DECADE-LONG LAWSUIT OVER SLEEP DEPRIVATION CAN KEEP GOING Michael Garrett and other Texas inmates get less than four hours of sleep a night. He argues it's cruel and unusual punishment. C.J. Ciaramella | 4.4.2024 4:00 PM Property Rights ARE 'SQUATTERS' RIGHTS' OUT OF CONTROL? Too many property owners are having trouble asserting their rights, but not everything is "squatter's rights." Christian Britschgi | 3.29.2024 10:40 AM Squatters SQUATTERS INVADED HIS MOM'S HOUSE—SO HE FOUGHT BACK Thanks to "squatters' rights" laws, evicting a squatter can be so expensive and cumbersome that some people simply walk away from their homes. John Stossel | 3.27.2024 11:55 AM Prisons LAWSUITS ALLEGE MICHIGAN SHERIFFS COLLUDED TO END IN-PERSON JAIL VISITS AND PRICE GOUGE FAMILIES FOR CALLS Two class-action lawsuits say Michigan counties take cuts of the exorbitant costs of inmate phone calls while children go months without seeing their parents in person. C.J. Ciaramella | 3.22.2024 4:20 PM Documentary REVIEW: HOW RAY TRAPANI SCAMMED THE CRYPTO WORLD AND GOT AWAY WITH IT Netflix's Bitconned explores Centra Tech's scammy business dealings. Katarina Hall | 3.22.2024 6:00 AM Criminal Justice MAURICE JIMMERSON WAS LOCKED UP FOR 10 YEARS WITHOUT A TRIAL. HE'S FINALLY FREE. The Georgia man was released after making a plea deal. He spent a decade in jail before ever being convicted of a crime. Emma Camp | 3.21.2024 3:46 PM Guns ANOTHER JUDGE SAYS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HAVE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS Some supposed defenders of the right to bear arms react with alarm. Brian Doherty | 3.20.2024 4:15 PM Donald Trump TRUMP FILES DEFAMATION LAWSUIT AGAINST ABC FOR SAYING HE WAS FOUND LIABLE FOR RAPE INSTEAD OF SEXUAL ASSAULT The defamation lawsuit is the latest in Trump's campaign of lawfare against media outlets, but all of those suits have failed so far. C.J. Ciaramella | 3.19.2024 2:59 PM Criminal Justice NO, IMPRISONING A SCHOOL SHOOTER'S PARENTS ISN'T JUSTICE James Crumbley, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, may be an unsympathetic defendant. But this prosecution still made little sense. Billy Binion | 3.15.2024 5:32 PM Excessive Fines ENDING FEES AND FINES FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS IS BEST FOR REHABILITATION A former chief judge of Delaware's Family Court argues that imposing fines and fees on juvenile offenders undermines their potential to become productive, law-abiding adults. Chandlee Kuhn | 3.13.2024 2:15 PM Fourth Amendment LOUISIANA LAW LETS WILDLIFE AGENTS TRESPASS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY A lawsuit from the Institute for Justice claims the law violates the Louisiana Constitution. Joe Lancaster | 3.13.2024 1:00 PM Free Speech YOUR LOCAL DMV MAY HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR Censorship of 2,872 Pennsylvania license plates raises free speech questions. Varad Raigaonkar | 3.6.2024 1:42 PM Criminal Justice A PARAMEDIC GOT 5 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ELIJAH MCCLAIN'S DEATH. THAT'S NOT JUSTICE. It can certainly be true that Peter Cichuniec made an egregious professional misjudgment. And it can also be true that punishing him criminally makes little sense. Billy Binion | 3.4.2024 4:30 PM Privacy TEXAS SUES PORNHUB FOR FAILING TO CHECK IDS A federal judge in an ongoing case called the porn age-check scheme unconstitutional. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn't seem to care. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.28.2024 11:30 AM Police Abuse ALBUQUERQUE COPS ALLEGEDLY GOT PAID TO MAKE DWI CASES DISAPPEAR The scandal has resulted in the dismissal of some 200 DWI cases, an internal probe, and an FBI investigation. Jacob Sullum | 2.23.2024 3:25 PM Criminal Justice THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT QUIETLY ENDS REPROSECUTION OF MAN WHO RECEIVED CLEMENCY FROM TRUMP Philip Esformes was sentenced for charges on which a jury hung. After receiving a commutation, the federal government vowed to try to put him back in prison. Billy Binion | 2.23.2024 2:47 PM Donald Trump TRUMP ORDERED TO PAY $364 MILLION FOR INFLATING HIS ASSETS IN CIVIL FRAUD TRIAL Despite brazenly lying on financial documents and inventing valuations seemingly out of thin air, Trump's lender did not testify that it would have valued his loans any differently. Joe Lancaster | 2.16.2024 4:43 PM Criminal Justice THIS PROSECUTOR SECRETLY WORKED FOR THE JUDGES OVERSEEING HIS CASES. WILL HIS VICTIMS BE ABLE TO SUE? Ralph Petty likely violated the Constitution. In a rare move, a federal court signaled this week that lawsuits against him may not be dead on arrival. Billy Binion | 2.16.2024 4:40 PM Election 2020 CONSERVATIVE GROUP CONCEDES IT CAN'T BACK UP ITS ELECTION FRAUD CHARGES True the Vote told a Georgia court that it can't produce any evidence to support claims of widespread ballot fraud in Georgia. Eric Boehm | 2.15.2024 1:45 PM Social Media KIDS HAVE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TOO, FEDERAL JUDGE REMINDS STATE LAWMAKERS Banning people under age 16 from accessing social media without parental consent "is a breathtakingly blunt instrument" for reducing potential harms, the judge writes. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.14.2024 11:40 AM Vaccines COVID VACCINE INJURIES DESERVE A DAY IN COURT Injury claims for COVID vaccines are subject to a different process than other vaccines. Christian Britschgi | 2.12.2024 6:00 AM Bail GEORGIA BILL WOULD HOBBLE BAIL FUNDS EVEN AS IT EXPANDS CASH BAIL By definition, people assigned bail have been judged safe to release into the general population. Requiring them to post cash bail is needlessly punitive. Joe Lancaster | 2.9.2024 2:50 PM Mass Shootings MOM'S MANSLAUGHTER CONVICTION FOR HER SON'S SCHOOL SHOOTING SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT In some sense, the case seemed to hinge on what prosecutors wished the law said, not on what it actually says. Billy Binion | 2.6.2024 5:10 PM First Amendment SHE WAS ARRESTED FOR HER JOURNALISM. A FEDERAL COURT SAYS SHE CAN'T SUE. Priscilla Villarreal, also known as "Lagordiloca," has sparked a debate about free speech and who, exactly, is a journalist. Billy Binion | 1.30.2024 11:27 AM Criminal Justice 'SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE TODAY': DID DANIEL PENNY ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE? "I have encountered many things," one witness told the grand jury, "but nothing that put fear into me like that." Billy Binion | 1.19.2024 4:12 PM Donald Trump HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER (ACCORDING TO TRUMP'S LAWYERS) Step 1: Become president. That's the hardest part. Eric Boehm | 1.12.2024 1:00 PM Donald Trump BEDLAM IN THE COUNTRY Plus: Migrant shelter stabbing, Hollywood doom, Cuban spies, and more... Liz Wolfe | 1.10.2024 9:30 AM Abortion JUDGE BLOCKS ATTEMPT TO DISMISS LAWSUIT CHALLENGING IDAHO ABORTION BAN A state judge ruled that a lawsuit seeking clarification on Idaho's vague abortion ban can move forward, despite dismissing some of the suit's claims. Emma Camp | 1.2.2024 1:52 PM Housing Policy COURT'S WILD ZONING DECISION BLOCKS 'MONTANA MIRACLE' Plus: More local "missing middle" reforms pass in Maine and Virginia, Colorado court blesses crackdown on student housing, and Florida tries to escape its slow growth past. Christian Britschgi | 1.2.2024 10:15 AM Donald Trump THEY CAN'T GET HIM Plus: Milei, Melania, mice, and more... Liz Wolfe | 12.21.2023 9:30 AM Criminal Justice SENTENCING COMMISSION AGAIN PROPOSES RESTRICTING JUDGES' USE OF ACQUITTED CONDUCT Judges can sentence defendants for charges they were acquitted of by a jury, a practice that troubles criminal justice advocates, civil liberties groups, and several Supreme Court justices. C.J. Ciaramella | 12.20.2023 12:50 PM More * About * Browse Topics * Events * Staff * Jobs * Donate * Advertise * Subscribe * Contact * Media * Shop * Amazon Reason Facebook@reason on XReason InstagramReason TikTokReason YoutubeApple PodcastsReason on FlipboardReason RSS © 2024 Reason Foundation | Accessibility | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Notifications