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The Inflation Election
In retrospect, the most important incident along the road to this Election Day may not have been the Democratic Party's decision to shove aside President Joe Biden, or the unprecedented (and...
View ArticleInterpretation, Context, and "the Region Currently Under Strain"
Here's a quotation from Richard Rorty about context, and the last two sentences are instructive for legal interpretation. It is impossible to read a text without a context. Instead of even trying to,...
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Can These Voters Say Something Nice About the Other Side?
Do voters think Donald Trump or Kamala Harris have any redeeming qualities? On Monday, November 4, Reason's Emma Camp talked to voters in Washington, D.C., about which presidential candidate they...
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Live on Election Night! The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
Join Reason's Nick Gillespie live on election night at YouTube, X, and Reason.com, starting at 10 p.m. EST. Will history be made? Will it end? Joining Gillespie are The Fifth Column's Kmele Foster,...
View ArticleJudge Orders Divorcing Husband to Surrender Gun, Even Without Domestic...
In U.S. v. Rahimi, the Supreme Court held that the law may forbid gun possession by people subject to harassment restraining orders, when the orders were entered based on a showing of actual violence...
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Abolish the FCC's Equal Time Rule Before the Next Election
It's hard to imagine that one of the animating issues in the final days of the 2024 presidential campaign would be a decades-old regulation enforced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). But...
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The Housing Election That Won't Fix the Housing Crisis
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This is of course not just any Tuesday but Election Day, where the country will decide who should control Congress, the White House, and...
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Study: Mass Deportation Could Put 28 Million People at Risk of Family Separation
More than 28 million members of mixed–immigration status households in the United States are at risk of deportation or family separation if mass deportation policies, such as those supported by former...
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Prepare To Wait Awhile for Final Election Results
As I write, Americans are trudging to the polls to mark ovals on paper, touch screens, use ballot-marking devices, and otherwise record their choices for president, Congress, state legislatures, and a...
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The Best of Reason: How the Political Spectrum Turned Inside Out
This week's featured article is "How the Political Spectrum Turned Inside Out" by Jesse Walker. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in...
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Florida's Marijuana Legalization Initiative Fails To Pass
A Florida ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana failed to hit the supermajority threshold required to pass, dealing a high-profile defeat to the most well-funded legalization campaign...
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Libertarian Party Underperforms in Presidential Election
It's too soon to know the results of many downballot races, but with a number of states reporting results, it appears that the Libertarian Party (L.P.) has broken the relatively successful streak it...
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Nearly Five Years After Breonna Taylor's Death, Justice Remains Elusive
On the night Breonna Taylor died, Detective Brett Hankison stood outside her apartment and blindly fired 10 rounds through a bedroom window and a sliding glass door, both of which were covered by...
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Washingtonians Uphold State's Climate Change Program
Voters in Washington have rejected ballot initiative 2117, upholding the state's cap-and-trade program under the Climate Commitment Act (CCA). About 62 percent of voters went against the measure, with...
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Nebraska Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Medical Marijuana
Voters in Nebraska have approved the medical use of cannabis, a policy that has been adopted by 38 other states (24 of which also allow recreational use). With three-quarters of ballots counted on...
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If Trump Wins, It's Because Neither Party Had the Guts To Stop Him
Donald Trump left the White House in January 2021 as a defeated, disgraced figure, soon after the House of Representatives impeached him for a second time. When that second impeachment trial...
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Massachusetts Voters Protect the Right To Work for Tips
Massachusetts voters have decisively rejected a measure to abolish the tipped wage, declining to require that restaurants and related employers replace the current pay scheme—which allows them to...
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Brickbat: Up Against the Glass
Former Wilmington, Delaware, police officer Samuel Waters has been sentenced to probation after being found guilty of assault, official misconduct, and evidence tampering. Security video showed Waters...
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Arizona Passes Immigration Crackdown Measure That Will Invite Unaccountable...
Arizona voters have approved Proposition 314, which will increase the role of state and local law enforcement in immigration policy. Arizona joins a growing list of states that are venturing into the...
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Massachusetts Voters Reject Decriminalization of 5 Natural Psychedelics
Massachusetts voters have rejected a ballot initiative that would have eliminated penalties for noncommercial production, possession, and sharing of five naturally occurring psychedelics. With 87...
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Voters Reject Marijuana Legalization in North Dakota and South Dakota
Voters in two sparsely populated red states, North Dakota and South Dakota, have rejected ballot initiatives that would have legalized recreational marijuana. With nearly all ballots counted on...
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Voters Didn't Reject Women, They Rejected Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is the loser of the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump has 277 electoral votes, according to the Associated Press, with several states still left to be decided, but also leaning in...
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Donald Trump Won Because Kamala Harris Is Joe Biden but Worse
Donald Trump has once again won the presidency—and has done so convincingly. In the coming days and weeks, commentators will spill considerable ink trying to make sense of this result. Mainstream...
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Today in Supreme Court History: November 6, 1989
11/6/1989: Employment Division v. Smith argued. Employment Division of OregonThe post Today in Supreme Court History: November 6, 1989 appeared first on Reason.com.
View ArticleShould Felons Have the Right to Challenge Their Loss of Gun Rights, on a...
No, said an Eighth Circuit panel in U.S. v. Jackson earlier this year; yesterday, the court refused to rehear the case en banc, so the answer is still no in the Eighth Circuit. Judge David Stras,...
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Chase Oliver Calls Libertarian Party Presidential Run 'Honor of My Lifetime'
While battleground states continue counting votes—and some may not have official results for some time—it seems that the Libertarian Party (L.P.) will fall short of its relative recent successes. The...
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Part IV: The Executive Power
Ex Parte Merryman (1861) Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) Korematsu v. U.S. (1944) The post Part IV: The Executive Power appeared first on Reason.com.
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Pro-Choice Abortion Initiatives Pass in Seven Out of Ten States
It was a pretty good night for reproductive freedom initiatives, which prevailed in seven of the ten states where they were on the ballot. Measures meant to protect abortion access were approved by...
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Trump Has Many Grudges. Now He Has a Chance To Act on Them.
"If there is an advantage to electing a preening, petty, thin-skinned, whiny, vindictive, vacuous, mendacious, boorish bully" to the White House, I wrote in November 2016, "it may be that he prompts a...
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He's Back!
Good morning. Donald Trump is the president-elect. The race was officially called around 5:30 a.m. when Wisconsin's results finally came in. Trump had already won North Carolina, Georgia, and...
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Democratic Hubris Blows Up in Michigan
Perhaps Vice President Kamala Harris thought she could take Michigan's Middle Eastern communities for granted. In a state with a huge Iraqi-American community, Harris touted the endorsement of former...
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California's Rent Control Initiative Goes Down in Flames
California voters roundly rejected rent control for the third time in six years tonight. With 51 percent of the vote reported, Proposition 33—which would have repealed all state-level limitations on...
View ArticleGetting a Sense of Voters Who Voted Biden in 2020 but Trump in 2024
If you voted this way, or feel you can reliably and sympathetically report on the views of family members or close friends who voted this way, please tell us in the comments why you did that. The Trump...
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Arizonans Approve Life in Prison for Sex Trafficking a Minor
Arizona Proposition 313 has passed. This is bad news, no matter how much the ballot measure's backers portrayed it as a simple measure to indicate that "children are not for sale." Obviously, selling...
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Ranked Choice Voting Initiatives Massively Fail
Initiatives related to ranked choice voting in political primaries and general elections were on the ballots in eight states and the District of Columbia. On the ballots were also an initiative that...
View ArticleThe Buckeye Institute Summer Legal Fellowship
I am pleased to pass along this announcement from my friends at the Buckeye Institute in Ohio: The Buckeye Institute is seeking first- and second-year law students to apply for a Summer Associate Legal...
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Can an Immigrant Workforce Save Dying Factory Towns?
When Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were vilified in a campaign of politicized fabrications about eating pets, Faranak Miraftab's mind went to a place she knew well. A professor of urban and...
View ArticleBret Stephens (N.Y. Times) on the Causes of Harris's Defeat
I liked this piece (by someone who "voted reluctantly for Harris"), and thought I'd pass it along. An excerpt: How, indeed, did Democrats lose so badly, considering how they saw Donald Trump — a...
View ArticleBurying the Hatchet Post-Election in Delaware (with Special Bonus Ox Roast)
A University of Delaware page reports: The State Law of 1791 moved the county seat in Sussex County from Lewes to a more centrally located area of the county, later naming the town Georgetown after one...
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Harris' Career As Prosecutor Left Her Totally Unprepared for a Fair Fight
The results are in and Donald Trump has won a commanding victory in the 2024 presidential race. Pundits, pollsters, and wonks will be trying to explain why Vice President Kamala Harris did so poorly...
View ArticleQuick Reminder: Don't Compare the Final 2020 Popular Vote Totals with...
Right now, Harris is at about 67M (N.Y. Times data), but about 45% of California votes aren't yet included in that tally, plus 30% of Oregon votes, 35% of Washington votes, 35% of Arizona votes, and...
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Colorado Might Allow More People To Provide Veterinary Care
Colorado is set to pass Proposition 129, with 72 percent of votes counted at the time of posting. Proposition 129 establishes a new, legally recognized and regulated class of veterinary care providers...
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The House Is Democrats' Best Chance To Check Trump's Executive Powers
A majority in the House of Representatives could provide Donald Trump with the necessary power to cement some of his most ambitious policy plans—or could serve as a critical check on his worst...
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Missouri Voters Reject Court Fee Hike for Police Pensions
On Tuesday, Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 6, which would have changed the state constitution to allow court fees to pay for law enforcement salaries and retirement benefits. The...
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This Week's Election Results Are a Discouraging Sign for Drug Policy Reformers
The last time voters sent Donald Trump to the White House, I barely noticed on Election Night because I was so pleasantly surprised by the electoral success of marijuana reform. In 2016, voters in...
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In Michigan, the CIA Beat the FBI
Whichever way the elections in Michigan swung, the intelligence community would have gained a new ally. Retired CIA analyst and incumbent Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, was running for a promotion...
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Central Planning Won Big on Election Night
Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are surely experiencing disappointment, but one of the Biden-Harris administration's pillars—"industrial policy"—won big on Tuesday. That's because it's...
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