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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason, a monthly magazine that covers politics and culture from a libertarian perspective. During two decades in journalism, he has relentlessly skewered authoritarians of the left and the right, making the case for shrinking the realm of politics and expanding the realm of individual choice. Jacobs’ work appears here at AmmoLand News through a license with Creators Syndicate.
It authorizes domestic military deployments when any of the listed illegal activities “opposes or obstructs the execution” of federal laws or “impedes the course of justice under those laws.”
Both questions are important, especially since “criminal laws have grown so exuberantly” that “almost anyone can be arrested for something,” as Justice Neil Gorsuch observes.
Why the hurry? Since the charges against Comey stem from his congressional testimony on Sept. 30, 2020, they would have been barred by the five-year statute of limitations…
Trump is taking the same position as former President Joe Biden, whose administration doggedly defended this gun ban against challenges by marijuana users.
The NRA Supports SCOTUS Petitioners Who Lost Their Gun Rights Because of Nonviolent Offenses: The Cases Give the Justices a Chance to Address a Constitutionally Dubious Policy That Disarms Peaceful Americans
Government licensing of newspapers, websites or streaming services would be a constitutional nonstarter, inviting all sorts of interference with freedom of speech. Government licensing of broadcasters poses similar perils,…
Whether He Is Waging the Drug War, Imposing Tariffs, Deporting Alleged Gang Members, or Fighting Crime, the President Thinks He Can Do ‘Anything I Want to Do’…
…federal appeals courts have ruled that categorical statutory bans on gun ownership, whether based on illegal drug use or criminal convictions, may be unconstitutional as applied to specific individuals.
The Gun-Free School Zones Act is federal overreach at its worst—stretching the Commerce Clause beyond recognition and gutting the Second Amendment. By turning law-abiding citizens into felons for
Two members of the House Judiciary Committee say the case against Michelino Sunseri epitomizes the overcriminalization that President Trump decries…
The Widely Resented and Ridiculed Policy, Which the U.S. Was Nearly Alone in Enforcing, Never Made Much Sense…
Gorsuch was appropriately skeptical when the government’s lawyer argued that safety considerations precluded the agents from checking the address…
Federal prosecutors charged Sunseri with a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail for using a trail that the Park Service described as closed, although it had never bothered to clearly inform the public.
Gibson’s inclusion smacks of political favoritism, Bondi’s move is part of a long overdue effort to restore the 2nd Amendment rights of “prohibited persons” who pose no threat to public safety.
Last July, the Supreme Court recognized that social media platforms, in deciding which speech to host and how to present it, are performing essentially the same function as newspapers…
President Trump owns the “general administrative control of those executing the laws, including the power of appointment and removal of executive officers.
Unless Trump successfully challenges his 34 felony convictions on appeal, he will suffer a lifelong 2A penalty that should trouble civil libertarians across the political spectrum.
The Oneida County NY Industrial Development Agency nixed that plan by agreeing to take the property so a competing business next door could use it for a parking lot…
The misplaced criticism of Hur was one of the year’s most audacious attempts at blame-shifting. Here are some more highlights….
The President Trump makes valid points in highlighting potential abuses of prosecutorial power with incoming J6 political-prisoner pardons…
Hunter Biden avoided the consequences of a criminal justice system that punishes people for conduct that violates no one’s rights and compounds that punishment when they demand the trial…
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Songer. Hankison “violated one of the most fundamental rules of deadly force,” “If they cannot see the person they’re shooting at, they cannot pull the trigger.”
The charges, which could send Colin Gray to prison for the rest of his life, are part of a broader attempt to criminalize parental failures…
Chip Mellor’s legacy, in short, is an organization that challenges people to rethink what it means to defend civil liberties, promote freedom, and help the disadvantaged.
Walz thinks the First Amendment is no barrier to government censorship of “hate speech” or “misinformation,” as he made clear in a 2022 MSNBC interview.
One of the dirty little not-so-secret secrets of the criminal justice system is undercover narcotics officers intentionally lying under oath….
Supply-side measures, which are doomed by the economics of prohibition, not only have failed to reduce drug-related deaths. They have had the opposite effect.
The film vividly illustrates the unjust consequences of civil asset forfeiture, a system of legalized larceny that allows police to seize property that is allegedly tainted by crime.
In 1990, when Trump was famous as a billionaire New York developer rather than a politician, he called the war on drugs “a joke” and recommended legalization instead.
It looks like the Supreme Court will have to remind the lower courts that criminal use of guns does not negate the right of law-abiding Americans to own them.
