Trump Gets Bored With the War in Yemen
The pendulum within Trump’s Middle East policy has swung back toward deal making, for now.
https://reason.com/2025/05/07/trump-gets-bored-with-the-war-in-yemen/
Today in Supreme Court History: May 7, 1873
5/7/1873: Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase died. One month earlier, he dissented in the Slaughter-House Cases, and was the lone dissenter in Bradwell…
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https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/07/today-in-supreme-court-history-may-7-1873-6/
Wednesday Open Thread
What's on your mind?
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/07/wednesday-open-thread-15/
SCOTUS Permits Discharge In COVID and Transgender Cases
Comparing Navy Seals and Shilling.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/06/scotus-permits-discharge-in-covid-and-transgender-cases/
Rent Control Delayed but Not Dead in California
Plus: Arkansas legalizes ADUs, activists sue to stop missing middle housing, and Trump's housing plans for federal lands
https://reason.com/2025/05/06/rent-control-delayed-but-not-dead-in-california/
Brickbat: Hide and Seek Champion
In Clayton County, Georgia, the sheriff's office placed the jail on lockdown when deputies couldn't find convicted murderer Julian Brooks…
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https://reason.com/2025/05/06/brickbat-hide-and-seek-champion/
No Preliminary Injunction for Yale MBA Student Suing Over Discipline for Alleged Use of AI on Exam
From today's decision by Judge Sarah Russell (D. Conn.) in Rignol v. Yale Univ. (a case I first wrote about…
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School Choice Could Defuse Culture War Fights
A Supreme Court case about religious parents' rights underscores a deeper problem: Without choice, public schools become a culture war battleground with no exit.
https://reason.com/2025/05/05/school-choice-could-defuse-culture-war-fights/
Andor v. Star Trek
How Star Wars gets government right.
The Trump Administration Is Using Tattoos, Logos, and Clothes To Identify Supposed Gang Members
ICE deported Andry Hernandez Romero because his "mom" and "dad" tattoos were allegedly related to a Venezuelan gang.
Brickbat: Stop and Go
In Auckland, New Zealand, police officer Morne de Lange was convicted for carelessly driving and assaulting a motorcyclist after a…
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America First Legal Foundation v. Chief Justice John Roberts
A FOIA lawsuit that seeks executive branch control over the Judicial Conference of the United States and Administrative Office of the United States.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/04/america-first-legal-foundation-v-chief-justice-john-roberts/
What if the President Tries to Annex Greenland and Canada?
Trump's new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense.
https://reason.com/2025/05/04/what-if-the-president-tries-to-annex-greenland-and-canada/
Trump's Budget Calls for $17 Billion Cut to NIH, Citing Lax Oversight of Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan
The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."
5 Times the Trump Team Told Americans To Accept Being Poorer
Trump's comment about how "dolls" will "cost a couple of bucks more" is the latest in a long trend of nationalist conservatives disparaging affordable stuff.
https://reason.com/2025/05/02/5-times-the-trump-team-told-americans-to-accept-being-poorer/
U.S. Government: We Didn't Use 'Political Violence' in Iraq
A training slideshow reveals how deluded American leaders continue to be about the Iraq War, more than two decades later.
https://reason.com/2025/05/02/u-s-government-we-didnt-use-political-violence-in-iraq/
Brickbat: Toxic Trio
In Ohio, three former East Cleveland Police Department officers—Detective Ian McInnes, Sergeant Anthony Holmes, and Commander Larry "Pac Man" McDonald—were…
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Yes, the Media Covered for Biden
It wasn't just staffers and strategists.
https://reason.com/2025/05/01/yes-the-media-covered-for-biden/