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**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.

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**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.

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**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.

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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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**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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**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.

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**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.

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**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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**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.

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**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.

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**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.

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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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