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'Hamstringing the Government': A Viral Narrative Distorts Ketanji Brown Jackson's Understanding of Free Speech

If partisans have one thing in common, it's confirmation bias.

Reason · Mar 19, 2024

Court Should Focus on Coercion in Murthy v. Missouri

The government is entitled to try to persuade social media to take down posts, but not to coerce them to do so.

Reason · Mar 19, 2024

Supreme Court seems wary of barring government contacts with social media

At issue was a sweeping Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that barred government officials from having contacts with social media platforms.

WEKU · Mar 18, 2024

SCOTUS Ponders the Implications of Prosecuting Gun Owners for a Crime Invented by Bureaucrats

Several justices seemed troubled by an ATF rule that purports to ban bump stocks by reinterpreting the federal definition of machine guns.

Reason · Feb 29, 2024

Supreme Court Looks Poised To Gut Restrictive Social Media Laws

The First Amendment restricts governments, not private platforms, and respects editorial rights.

Reason · Feb 28, 2024

Most Justices Seem Skeptical of the Florida and Texas Social Media Laws

The Supreme Court seems inclined to recognize that content moderation is protected by the First Amendment.

Reason · Feb 27, 2024

Supreme Court Seems Likely to Strike Down Florida and Texas Social Media Laws

The laws violate the First Amendment because they require social media sites to abjure most content moderation, and platform speech they disapprove of.

Reason · Feb 27, 2024

Second Amendment Roundup: D.C.'s Magazine Ban Argued Again in D.C. Circuit

It was déjà vu, but this time post-Bruen.

Reason · Feb 21, 2024

Former FBI informant charged for lying about Biden-Ukraine allegations

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnoff has been charged with lying about President Biden and his son Hunter's involvement with Burisma. The FBI arrested S...

Top News · Feb 15, 2024

SCOTUS Is Troubled by the Claim That States Can Disqualify Trump From the Election As an Insurrectionist

Most of the justices are clearly inclined to reject a Colorado Supreme Court decision asserting that power under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Reason · Feb 12, 2024