**FDA Cracks Down on Animal Tranquilizer That Is Sometimes Mixed With Fentanyl**
The agency's action ignores the government's own role in creating a black market in the first place.
**Dr. Vinay Prasad: Stop Trusting the Public Health Establishment**
Join Reason on YouTube at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of mRNA vaccines and America's public health establishment with UCSF's Vinay Prasad.
https://reason.com/video/2023/03/01/dr-vinay-prasad-stop-trusting-the-public-health-establishment/
**A Textualist Defense of the Major Questions Doctrine**
Critics claim the doctrine is obviously at odds with textualism. But that isn't the case.
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**Ohio Woman Says Cops Broke Her Wrist for Recording During Traffic Stop**
"The Officers' actions were unreasonable, deliberately indifferent, reckless, willful, wanton, and shocking to the conscience," a new legal complaint states.
**DeSantis' Disney Drama Turns Culture War Into Political Gains**
In the old days, conservatives would have viewed unelected officials being appointed to oversee corporate decisions as a worrying intrusion of state power into private affairs. DeSantis has figured out how to get them to cheer for it.
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**DeSantis' Disney Drama Turns Culture War Into Political Gains**
In the old days, conservatives would have viewed unelected officials being appointed to oversee corporate decisions as a worrying intrusion of state power into private affairs. DeSantis has figured out how to get them to cheer for it.
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**Zelenskiy on Why He Stayed in Kiev**
Perhaps an insight on how many courageous actions actually come about.
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**Zelenskiy on Why He Stayed in Kiev**
Perhaps an insight on how many courageous actions actually come about.
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**The 2023 Scalia Lecture: Beyond Textualism?**
On Monday, I delivered the 2023 Scalia Lecture at Harvard Law School. My title was "Beyond Textualism?" and I discussed "the reductio ad Bostock"; the role of substantive canons and the major questions doctrine; Erie, legal realism, and the common law; and the original meaning of the Privileges or Immunities Clause -- in roughly that…
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**Former Arizona AG Found No Evidence of 2020 Election Fraud. He Kept Quiet.**
Mark Brnovich left office without issuing a final report, according to documents released by his successor.
**Hester Peirce, Nic Carter: The Government vs. Cryptocurrencies**
Meet the SEC commissioner who hates regulation and the bitcoin booster who says the crypto industry needs to police itself better.
https://reason.com/podcast/2023/03/01/hester-peirce-nic-carter-the-government-vs-cryptocurrencies/
**A Tavern Keeper's Last Stand at the Alamo**
Vince Cantu says the eminent domain threats to seize his property are "stupidly ironic" and "completely un-Texan."
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**Pentagon Experts Don't Trust Young Men With Guns, Red Bull**
Plus: FBI director says COVID's origins "are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of student loan forgiveness, and more...
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**John Roberts Likens Biden's Executive Action on Student Loans to Trump's Executive Action on Immigration**
That’s bad news for Biden.
**The Department of Homeland Security Turns 20. Its Legacy Is Disastrous.**
Surveilling American citizens without due process, separating undocumented children from their parents, the TSA—the DHS has been a failure.
https://reason.com/2023/03/01/the-department-of-homeland-security-turns-20-its-legacy-is-disastrous/
**The Department of Homeland Security Turns 20. Its Legacy Is Disastrous.**
Surveilling American citizens without due process, separating undocumented children from their parents, the TSA—the DHS has been a failure.
https://reason.com/2023/03/01/the-department-of-homeland-security-turns-20-its-legacy-is-disastrous/
**Sheriff's Employee Embezzled Funds in Keeping with the Spirit of Civil Asset Forfeiture**
One guy with gambling debts is a news story, but a formal policy of legalized theft is a national scandal.
**Today in Supreme Court History: March 1, 1880**
3/1/1880: Strauder v. West Virginia decided.
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**Brickbat: Quick Action**
Less than two weeks after a driver rammed into one of the bedrooms of his Austin, Texas, home, Chris Newby got a letter from the city telling him his house was now in violation of city code and that he had 30 days to get it repaired or he faced $2,000 a day in fines.…
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**Updated Model Motion to Suppress For Unlawful Internet Preservation**
Hey, criminal defense lawyers, this is for you.