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A Texas Reporter Busted for Asking Questions Asks SCOTUS To Reject the Criminalization of Journalism
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amPriscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
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Cert Petition Filed in United States v. Streett
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amA follow-up to my post last year on the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule.
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Chemerinsky: "Anti-Semitism is not taken as seriously as other kinds of prejudice"
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am"A plainly anti-Semitic poster received just a handful of complaints from Jewish staff and students"
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Student Movements Are Often Wrong
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amWe shouldn't assume that student political movements necessarily have a just cause. Far from it.
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Justin Amash on Why Congress Is Broken
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am"Today it is highly centralized, where a few people at the top control everything," the former five-term congressman tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
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Big Beer vs. Canned Cocktails in the Grocery Aisle
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amUncovering Big Beer’s crafty campaign to limit consumer access to canned cocktails.
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Today in Supreme Court History: April 27, 1822
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am4/27/1822: President Ulysses S. Grant's birthday. He would appoint four Justices to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Waite, Justice Strong, Justice Bradley, and Justice Hunt.
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Brickbat: Bus Stopped
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amLittleton, Colorado, police have arrested Kiarra Jones on charges of third-degree assault for crimes against an at-risk juvenile. Video captured Jones, a paraprofessional with Littleton Public Schools, slapping a 10-year-old boy with autism in the face, stomping his feet, and elbowing him in the stomach as they rode a school bus to a school for…
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Review: Here There Are Blueberries Investigates a Nazi Photo Album
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am"Where is the line between complacency, complicity, and culpability?” asks producer Matt Joslyn.
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Australia Tries To Censor the World
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amLocal hostility to free speech may become a global problem.
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Today in Supreme Court History: April 26, 1995
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am4/26/1995: U.S. v. Lopez decided.
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California's New Social Media Law Invites Expensive Lawsuits
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amInstead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
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Court Upholds #TheyLied Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Award Against Student Who Accused Professor of Sexual Assault,
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 ambut throws out a similar award against another professor who backed the student's allegations. (A jury had concluded the student's allegations were false and defamatory.)
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Challengers Is the Horny Tennis Movie Hollywood Needs
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amA witty, erotically charged three-way love story about tennis, sex, and ambition.
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School's Out
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amPlus: Campus echoes of Occupy Wall Street, Trump's presidential immunity claims, plans to undo the Fed's independence, and more...
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The FBI Was Monitoring Student Protests Against Ben Shapiro
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amA newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.
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A Soho Forum Discussion of COVID with Tom Woods
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amIn lieu of the planned debate with Brent Orrell, Gene Epstein and Tom Woods discuss the prudence of COVID-related restrictions.
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Two Posts Relevant to Current Campus Conflicts Over Israel and Hamas
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amMy October 2023 posts on the roots of far-left support for Hamas and the reasons why some "cancellations" are justified remain sadly relevant.
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Alabama Bill Would Criminalize Librarians Who Allow 'Material Harmful to Minors'
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amThe bill also attempts to ban drag performances at public libraries.
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These New York Agencies Benefit From Giving Away Taxpayer Money
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amA report from Good Jobs First found that 80 percent of state development agency revenue comes from fees: The more tax money they give out, the more they get to keep.
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Nick Gillespie: Keep America's Borders Open
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am"We should be building a wall around the welfare state, not the United States," Nick Gillespie argued at a recent immigration debate.
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The Court Was Right To Overturn Harvey Weinstein's Rape Conviction
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amThe ruling has nothing to do with #MeToo. It is about ensuring a fair trial—a principle that applies no matter how unsympathetic the defendant.
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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amReasonable SWAT mistakes, lying forensic pathologists, and de minimis injuries.
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No Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful-Discipline Lawsuits, Holds Seventh Circuit
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amThe decision departs from what most courts have done in such Title IX cases—but tracks what most courts do in the many other cases where disclosing a plaintiff’s name might damage the plaintiff’s reputation and professional prospects.
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MIT President's Statement on the Anti-Israel Students' Encampment
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBoNDRuyLww Here's the transcript; on balance, the message seems to me to be correct (though I would be inclined to say that such encampments, if they violate content-neutral rules—as they usually do—should be removed more promptly): Hello, everyone. As you surely know, campus communities across the country are struggling to cope with strongly contending views…
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