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The Alarming Implications of Trump's Immunity Claim

Executive Power Jacob Sullum | 4.24.2024 12:01 AM When Congress impeaches and removes a federal official, the...

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The Alarming Implications of Trump's Immunity Claim

When Congress impeaches and removes a federal official, the Constitution says, "the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to...

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Does the Constitution Protect the Right To Get High?

Drug Policy Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2024 7:00 AM The Constitution of the War on Drugs , by David Pozen, Oxford...

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Alvin Bragg's 'Election Interference' Narrative Is Nonsensical

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SCOTUS Misses a Chance To Protect Peaceful Protesters

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2024 12:01 AM In his last protest march, Martin Luther King Jr. led a parade of...

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SCOTUS Misses a Chance to Protect Peaceful Protesters

In his last protest march, Martin Luther King Jr. led a parade of demonstrators down Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, lending his support to...

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Most Justices Seem Skeptical of Charging Capitol Rioters With Obstructing an Official Proceeding

Capitol Riot Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2024 5:30 PM About 350 Donald Trump supporters who participated in the 2021 Capitol...

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The Best of Reason: Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2024 5:55 PM This week's featured article is "Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled...

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Alvin Bragg Says Trump Tried To Conceal 'Another Crime.' What Crime?

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 4.15.2024 1:30 PM As jury selection begins this week in the New York criminal case...

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Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the May 2024 issue Around 2 a.m. on Monday, December 6, 1875, a "posse of police"...

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Critics of the Arizona Supreme Court's Abortion Ruling Seem Confused About What Judges Are Supposed To Do

Abortion Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2024 3:15 PM When the Arizona Supreme Court resurrected a sweeping 19th-century...

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A Florida Judge Says $165,000 in Fines for 3 Minor Code Violations Is Not 'Excessive'

Excessive Fines Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2024 2:30 PM A Florida judge yesterday ruled against a Lantana homeowner who...

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Trump's Abortion Stance Is Convenient, but That Does Not Mean He's Wrong

Abortion Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2024 12:01 AM "On abortion," The New York Times claims, former President Donald Trump...

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Trump's Abortion Stance Is Convenient, But That Does Not Mean He's Wrong

"On abortion," The New York Times claims, former President Donald Trump "chose politics over principles." In reality, Trump's recent clarification of...

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Embracing a Federalist Approach to Abortion, Trump Condemns Democrats As 'Radical'

Abortion Jacob Sullum | 4.8.2024 4:40 PM In a Truth Social video posted this morning, Donald Trump says abortion...

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Colorado Legislators Ditch Plan To Ban Guns in Dozens of 'Sensitive Places'

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Albuquerque's Police Chief Ran a Red Light and Broadsided a Car. A Review Board Says It Was Unavoidable.

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Drug Dealers Did Not Kill Cecilia Gentili. Prohibition Did.

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 4.3.2024 2:50 PM A federal indictment unsealed this week charges two men, Antonio Venti...

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New York's Pot Legalization 'Disaster' Was Entirely Predictable

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 4.3.2024 12:01 AM Three years after New York legalized marijuana, unauthorized pot shops...

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New York's Pot Legalization 'Disaster' Was Entirely Predictable

Three years after New York legalized marijuana, unauthorized pot shops outnumber licensed retailers by more than 20 to 1. Legislators and regulators...

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Judge Quashes Felony Murder Charges Against Former Houston Cop Whose Lies Led to a Deadly 2019 Drug Raid

Police Abuse Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2024 1:25 PM It has been more than five years since Houston police officers killed...

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Don't Blame Decriminalization for Oregon Drug Deaths

Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the May 2024 issue In March, Oregon legislators overwhelmingly approved recriminalization...

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If Ronna McDaniel Is Beyond the Pale, NBC May Have Trouble Presenting 'Diverse Viewpoints'

Media Criticism Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2024 4:35 PM Two weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Ronna McDaniel,...

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Biden and Trump Try To Wish Away the Looming Entitlement Crisis

Entitlements Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2024 12:01 AM In a recent interview with former President Donald Trump, CNBC's Joe...

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A 5th Albuquerque Cop Resigns Amid Widening DWI Corruption Scandal

Police Abuse Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2024 5:15 PM Another Albuquerque police officer resigned last week amid a widening...

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This Colorado Bill Would Abolish the Right to Armed Self-Defense in Many 'Sensitive Places'

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.25.2024 1:40 PM After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms in...

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Political Stupidity and Bureaucratic Bungling Created New York's Pot Legalization 'Disaster'

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2024 4:05 PM As of last June, more than two years after New York legalized...

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Will the Supreme Court Let Sylvia Gonzalez Sue the Political Enemies Who Engineered Her Arrest?

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2024 3:15 PM Sylvia Gonzalez, a former Castle Hills, Texas, city council member,...

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Biden Decries Criminalization of Cannabis Consumers Even As He Insists They Have No Second Amendment Rights

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.20.2024 3:05 PM In his State of the Union address this month, President Joe Biden...

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The Supreme Court Should Reject Clandestine Government Censorship of Online Speech

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.20.2024 12:01 AM When federal officials persistently pressured social media...

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The Supreme Court Should Reject Clandestine Government Censorship of Online Speech

When federal officials persistently pressured social media platforms to delete or downgrade posts those officials did not like, a government lawyer...

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Supreme Court Says Officials Who Block Critics on Social Media Might Be Violating the First Amendment

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2024 4:15 PM When Donald Trump was president, he provoked a First Amendment...

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SCOTUS Ponders Whether the Biden Administration Coerced Social Media Platforms To Censor Speech

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.18.2024 5:00 PM The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday considered dueling interpretations...

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The New York Times Again Worries That Free Speech Endangers Democracy

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.17.2024 6:15 PM On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral...

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Because 'Marijuana Is Dangerous,' 2 Inveterate Drug Warriors Say, 'Legalizing It Was a Mistake'

Drug Legalization Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2024 4:20 PM It will surprise no one to learn that William Barr, who made it clear when Donald Trump picked...

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Oklahoma Autopsy Finds That a Bullied Nonbinary Student Committed Suicide

Public schools Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2024 2:15 PM Nex Benedict, a nonbinary Oklahoma student who died on February 8,...

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RIP Marc Sandhaus, Whose Obsession With Cannabis Landraces Finally Bore Flower

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 3.13.2024 3:00 PM The last time I heard from Marc Sandhaus was on Sunday, February 25, when...

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Expanding the Drug War To Include Tobacco Would Be a Big Mistake

Tobacco Jacob Sullum | 3.13.2024 12:01 AM Last month, New Zealand scrapped a law that would have gradually...

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Expanding the Drug War to Include Tobacco Would Be a Big Mistake

Last month, New Zealand scrapped a law that would have gradually prohibited tobacco products by banning sales to anyone born after 2008. But...

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Interview Transcripts Support Robert Hur's Description of Biden's 'Poor Memory'

Joe Biden Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2024 6:15 PM Former Special Counsel Robert Hur faced bipartisan flak on Tuesday during...

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FIRE Highlights the Blatant Hypocrisy of State Officials Who Decry Government Meddling With Social Media

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.11.2024 2:15 PM Next Monday the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments...

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Biden's Inaccurate and Inadequate Lip Service to Marijuana Reform Ignores Today's Central Cannabis Issue

Drug Policy Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2024 12:55 PM President Joe Biden's perfunctory reference to marijuana reform during...

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New Mexico MADD 'Officer of the Year' Resigns Amid DWI Corruption Scandal

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After 17 Years, Feds Stop Trying To Imprison a Licensed Medical Marijuana Provider

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 3.6.2024 12:01 AM Seventeen years ago, the federal government raided Charlie Lynch's...

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After 17 Years, the Feds Stop Trying to Imprison a Licensed Medical Marijuana Provider

Seventeen years ago, the federal government raided Charlie Lynch's medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, California, and charged him with five...

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A Belated Bureaucratic Reversal on Pot

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | From the April 2024 issue Since 1970, marijuana has been listed in Schedule I of the...

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Oregon Legislators Overwhelmingly Vote To Recriminalize Low-Level Drug Possession

Drug Policy Jacob Sullum | 3.4.2024 4:45 PM Oregon legislators last week overwhelmingly approved recriminalization...

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Supreme Court Unanimously Rules That States May Not Disqualify Trump As an Insurrectionist

Supreme Court Jacob Sullum | 3.4.2024 12:20 PM The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that states may not exclude...

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California Violated the Second Amendment by Disarming People Based on Nullified Convictions

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2024 3:05 PM The state of California employed Kendall Jones as a correctional...

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Sheriff Who Presided Over Violent 'Goon Squad' Tries To Play Dumb

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the March 2024 issue "I'm just floored and shocked," Rankin County, Mississippi,...

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