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Oklahoma Governor Attacks School Choice With Trans Bathroom Panic Law
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amCharter schools are included in the mandate that students use facilities of their birth sex, regardless of what students and families might want.
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Rhode Island Becomes the 19th State To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amMeanwhile, Delaware's governor has blocked a more modest step, and a legalization initiative has qualified for the ballot in South Dakota.
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Sherif Girgis on the Draft Dobbs Opinion and Its Critics
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amAn assessment of claims that Justice Alito's draft opinion rests on historical error, provides no meaningful basis for distinguishing abortion from other unenumerated rights, and forecloses constitutional protection of the mother's life.
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Supreme Court Turns Away Red State Effort to Block Social Cost of Carbon
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amWithout opinion the justices rejected Louisiana's application to vacate a lower court stay.
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The Slaughter-Free Future of Cultured Meats
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amReal factories are beginning to replace factory farms.
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Va. Judge Finds Probable Clause That "Court of Mist and Fury" and "Gender Queer" Are "Obscene for … Minors"
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amThis finding is now being used as a basis for seeking a restraining order banning Barnes & Noble from distributing the books to minors. Is that constitutional?
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Cops Handcuffed, Arrested a Uvalde Mom for Trying To Rescue Her Kids
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amWhy did it take an hour for the police to stop alleged killer Salvador Ramos?
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Your Flight Is Delayed. Thank the Feds.
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amCongress has radically restricted the number of pilots without doing anything to increase safety.
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NPR Tries To Cancel Stoner Metal Legend Matt Pike
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amAn exhaustive profile of the Sleep and High on Fire frontman focuses almost entirely on his "dangerous" affinity for David Icke's lizard people conspiracy theories.
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School Cops and TSA-Style Security Probably Won't Prevent Tragedies Like the Uvalde Shooting
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amMaking schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
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The DOJ Says a Man Whose Record Was Expunged Still Must Register As a Sex Offender, Which Is Impossible
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amA federal lawsuit argues that the department's regulations violate due process, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment.
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Court Preliminarily Enjoins New York's Limits on Unauthorized Practice of Law,
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amas applied to "program that would train non-lawyers to give [free] legal advice to low-income New Yorkers who face debt collection actions" about how to "fill out checkboxes on a one-page answer form provided by the State."
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A Double Standard Between Ukrainian and Afghan Refugees?
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amCritics allege, with some justice, that the Biden Administration is treating the former more favorably than the latter. If so, the right solution is to increase openness to Afghans and others fleeing war and repression, not bar more Ukrainians.
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Brickbat: Hands-on Education
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amAlonzo Peritore, a school bus monitor in Greece, New York, has been charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and endangering the welfare of a child for choking a 7-year-old boy on his bus. One of the boy's parents said their child told them Peritore tried to apologize, saying "they always play like that." Greece police…
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Today in Supreme Court History: May 26, 1868
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am5/26/1868: Senate acquitted President Andrew Johnson and adjourned as court of impeachment. Chief Justice Chase presided over that trial. Johnson is one of four presidents that did not appoint any Supreme Court Justices. The others are William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Jimmy Carter.
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Tennessee Court Expresses Doubt About Whether Anti-Libel Injunctions Are Allowed Under Tennessee Law
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amThe underlying lawsuit was brought by Mickell Lowery, a Commissioner for Shelby County, (which contains Memphis)—and son of longtime Memphis City Councilman Myron Lowery, who had also briefly served as Mayor—over allegedly libelous statements during his election campaign.
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Interrupting Family Member's Work Video Meeting with "Humiliating Remarks" Isn't "Family Abuse"
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amFrom A.A.R. v. Rustad, decided yesterday by the Oregon Court of Appeals (Presiding Judge Douglas Tookey, joined by Judges Jacqueline Kamins and Joel DeVore): Respondent appeals the trial court's continuation of a restraining order issued against him under the Family Abuse Prevention Act, ORS 107.700 to 107.735. While working from her marital home, petitioner was leading…
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Witnesses, Video Suggest Stunning Inaction From Uvalde Cops During School Shooting
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amPlus: Oklahoma's new strict abortion ban, Biden's new order on federal policing, and more…
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Robert Breedlove: Like the Constitution, Bitcoin 'Will Change the Way We Treat One Another'
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amThe self-described "freedom maximalist" and former hedge fund manager talks "incorruptible money," Austrian economics, and why Satoshi Nakamoto's invention is unstoppable.
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Why Is Biden Still Limiting Imports of South Korean Steel?
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amBiden's top trade adviser says tariffs must be "strategic," but what strategic value do tariffs on South Korean steel serve?
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There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amDon't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.
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"Judge Dismisses Bogus Defamation Lawsuit Against Foxconn Critic"
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amThe Institute for Justice, which represented the critic, so reports.
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Thursday Open Thread
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amWhat's on your mind?
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'Woke Capitalism' Does Not Advance Social Justice
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amIt incentivizes high-noise, low-cost signaling rather than actual cultural changes.
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Colorado Private Universities Have Contract & Tort Law Duties to Provide Fair Hearings to Accused Students
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amA "private educational institution owes a [tort law] duty, independent of any contractual promises, to adopt fair procedures and to implement those procedures with reasonable care when investigating and adjudicating claims of sexual misconduct by one student against another."
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