Skrmetti, Mahmoud, and B.P.J v. Bostock and Kingdom The Court seems concerned enough about transitioning children but not adult (prisoners). Reason · Oct 21
District Court Declares Vacatur (Likely) Unconstitutional "Even if Congress were to enact a law clearly empowering Article III courts to vacate agency rules or regulations and automatically cause their erasure from the Code of Federal Regulations, vacatur would likely still be inconsistent with the limited nature of the judicial power and the non-delegability of core legislative… Reason · Sep 30
A Few More Thoughts On The Missouri Ruling When electoral chaos is on the horizon, nothing else matters. Reason · Sep 27
Lightning Strikes Thrice The sun is setting shortly and I'm on the go, so my comments about the Missouri order will be brief.… The post Lightning Strikes Thrice appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 25
The Lightning Docket The Circuit Justice, like Zeus on Mount Olympus, instantly strikes down wayward lower courts with a bolt of lightning. Reason · Sep 23
Trump Goes Postal On Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett What did the Justices tell Trump during their interviews to make the President think otherwise? Reason · Sep 15
Chief Justice Roberts Goes Postal on Trump's USPS Rule Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom Of Night Will Stop The Shadow Docket. Reason · Sep 15
New in Civitas Outlook: The Supreme Law: A Quarter Century after 9/11 "But for September 11, 2001, and the events that followed, constitutional law likely would be unrecognizable today." Reason · Sep 11
A Remarkable 48 Hours In Missouri Justice Kavanaugh rules against Missouri twice, likely without even reading all the papers. Reason · Sep 10
A Strange Sorting Feature On The Supreme Court's Docket The order from the Justice is listed before the reply briefs. Reason · Sep 9
Making Sense Of The Chief Justice's Tango In The Ballroom Case It was the Chief, and not KBJ, who was holding up the case. Was he trying to flip ACB's vote? Reason · Sep 1
Strictly Ballroom: Justice Kavanaugh Defeats Chief Justice Roberts The Court rejects the D.C. Circuit's erroneous "aesthetic injury" standing precedents and the Chief can only wax about Churchill. Reason · Aug 31
First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:… The post First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 29
How To Teach Trump v. Barbara? The Barnett/Blackman casebook split up the case into six excerpts that stretch across sixty pages that can be taught in two classes. Reason · Aug 17
Reason · Aug 10 "A Tale of Two Chiefs" "This tale of two chiefs depends entirely on whether Roberts determines the decision will lead to the best of times or the worst of times. If the Chief fears rough roads ahead, less will be decided."
Reason · Aug 5 The En Banc 11th Circuit Granted Relief In Drag Show Case Where Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett Did Not After three years on the "interim" docket, Hamburger Mary will no longer be able to show "adult live performances" to minors.
Reason · Jul 29 Cert Denied, Cert Delayed, Cert Granted In at least four cases, the Court denied cert over three dissentals, and then resolved the same issue a year or more later.
Reason · Jul 28 Updating The Wall of Receipts For President Trump's Three Appointees How have Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett voted over the past year on the interim and certiorari dockets?
Reason · Jul 21 Chief Justice Roberts Broke The Fourth Wall in Cook This unusual opinion suggests something happened behind the scenes over the past ten months.
Reason · Jul 3 Some Thoughts on the Court's Opinion(s) in the Birthright Citizenship Case Did any of the other Justices happen to notice Justice Kavanaugh's argument that the entire matter could have been disposed of on statutory grounds?
Reason · Jul 1 On The Other Side Of The Looking Glass With West Virginia v. B.P.J. A debate about the meaning of "biological sex" on NPR.
Reason · Jul 1 Second Amendment Roundup: Cert Granted on Semiautomatic Rifle Bans The question is whether the Constitution guarantees the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.
Reason · Jun 30 The Final Recap of Authorship Predictions I correctly predicted that Coach Kavanaugh would have the transgender sports cases and the Chief would write birthright citizenship. I… The post The Final Recap of Authorship Predictions appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Jun 29 Recap of Today's Opinions and Predictions For The Final Four Cases My predictions from last Thursday panned out well. The Chief Justice wrote the majority opinion in both Cook and Slaughter. There… The post Recap of Today's Opinions and Predictions For The Final Four Cases appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Jun 25 Revisiting My Authorship Predictions And Making More Predictions Today the Court decided four more cases, including three opinions by Justice Alito. How did my predictions from Tuesday fare?… The post Revisiting My Authorship Predictions And Making More Predictions appeared first on Reason.com.