#  @damonroot Damon Root Damon Root posts on X about supreme court, quot, donald trump, united states the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::228868362/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] -87% - [--] Month [---------] +2,237% - [--] Months [---------] +5,445% - [--] Year [---------] +5,226% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::228868362/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -25% - [--] Month [--] -46% - [--] Months [---] +147% - [--] Year [---] +471% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::228868362/followers)  - [--] Month [-----] +0.07% - [--] Months [-----] +0.31% - [--] Year [-----] +2.20% ### CreatorRank: undefined [#](/creator/twitter::228868362/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [musicians](/list/musicians) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) **Social topic influence** [supreme court](/topic/supreme-court), [quot](/topic/quot), [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump), [united states](/topic/united-states), [the great](/topic/the-great), [the new](/topic/the-new), [tariffs](/topic/tariffs), [searches](/topic/searches), [$6753t](/topic/$6753t), [trumps](/topic/trumps) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@reason](/creator/undefined) [@randyebarnett](/creator/undefined) [@mcmoynihan](/creator/undefined) [@mattwelch](/creator/undefined) [@petersuderman](/creator/undefined) [@justicewillett](/creator/undefined) [@notjessewalker](/creator/undefined) [@ij](/creator/undefined) [@mrteller](/creator/undefined) [@kurtloder](/creator/undefined) [@radleybalko](/creator/undefined) [@nickgillespie](/creator/undefined) [@howappealing](/creator/undefined) [@garrettquinn](/creator/undefined) [@joshmblackman](/creator/undefined) [@kennedynation](/creator/undefined) [@shawnmacomber](/creator/undefined) [@judgenap](/creator/undefined) [@bdomenech](/creator/undefined) [@adamserwer](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Dave Inc. (DAVE)](/topic/$dave) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Mike Johnson wants to spare ICE the hassle of getting the right warrant before forcibly entering a home Here's a quick reminder of what the Fourth Amendment has to say about that" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/02/05/mike-johnson-wants-to-spare-ice-the-hassle-of-getting-the-right-warrant-before-forcibly-entering-a-home/) 2026-02-05T12:01Z [----] followers, 365.1K engagements "An Unconstitutional Arrest for Refusing To Show ID to the Cops - Reason.com Fourth Amendment advocates prevail in iWingate v. Fulford/i" [X Link](https://reason.com/2021/02/08/an-unconstitutional-arrest-for-refusing-to-show-id-to-the-cops/) 2021-02-09T13:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "3 Supreme Court cases to watch in June A ton of big SCOTUS decisions will be dropping over the next few weeks. Here are three of the most noteworthy ones" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/06/10/3-supreme-court-cases-to-watch-in-june-2025/) 2025-06-10T14:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Was the Bill of Rights a bad idea Some Founding Fathers thought so. Some framers feared that if certain rights were enumerated in the text unenumerated rights would be vulnerable to government abuse" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/) 2025-08-18T18:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "How Eminent Domain Transformed a Nice Neighborhood into a Dump - Reason.com You seriously cannot make this stuff up. New London Connecticut the municipality that received the Supreme Court's notorious stamp of" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2011/09/01/how-eminent-domain-transformed) 2011-09-01T22:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Trans athletes guns and the Federal Reserve: [--] SCOTUS cases to watch The Court's January docket is already packed full of high-profile cases that deal with some of the most controversial topics in American law" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/08/transgender-athletes-guns-and-the-federal-reserve-3-scotus-cases-to-watch-in-january/) 2026-01-09T03:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "SCOTUS probably wont put any new limits on warrantless home searches The Supreme Court weighed the emergency aid exception to the Fourth Amendment in a major case this week" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/16/scotus-probably-wont-put-any-new-limits-on-warrantless-home-searches/) 2025-10-16T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "SCOTUS rules [--] for Trump limits 'nationwide injunctions' in birthright citizenship case Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch declared Justice Amy Coney Barrett" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/06/27/supreme-court-rules-6-3-for-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-case/) 2025-06-27T17:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Trumps latest tariff defense asserts uncheckable executive power Trump's transparent effort to evade the major questions doctrine deserves to be rejected by the Supreme Court" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/23/trumps-latest-tariff-defense-asserts-uncheckable-executive-power/) 2025-09-23T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "No SCOTUS did not 'invent' judicial review in Marbury v. Madison The Supreme Courts power to nullify legislative and executive acts is inherent in the Constitution" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/02/no-scotus-did-not-invent-judicial-review-in-marbury-v-madison/) 2025-12-02T20:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Brett Kavanaugh says Trump threatens Federal Reserve independence Trumps legal arguments would weaken if not shatter the independence of the Federal Reserve the justice said" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/22/brett-kavanaugh-says-trump-threatens-federal-reserve-independence/) 2026-01-22T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Chief Justice John Roberts is both friend and foe to executive power Roberts has now been the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court for [--] years. His record reveals an uneven judicial philosophy" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/02/after-20-years-as-chief-justice-john-roberts-is-now-friend-and-foe-to-executive-power/) 2025-10-02T14:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A free speech lesson from Karl Marx Censorship tends to blow up in the faces of the censors. Just ask Karl Marx" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/07/17/a-free-speech-lesson-from-karl-marx/) 2025-12-05T14:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Trumps case against birthright citizenship is a constitutional loser Trumps case against birthright citizenship is an insult to the text history and original public meaning of the Constitution" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/) 2025-05-14T19:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Eyes on Gorsuch as SCOTUS weighs transgender student athlete bans SCOTUS heard arguments this week over state bans on transgender student athletes. Heres why Court watchers were paying close attention to Neil Gorsuch" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/15/eyes-on-gorsuch-as-scotus-weighs-transgender-student-athlete-bans/) 2026-01-15T12:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "What Neil Gorsuch gets wrong about judges and government power Gorsuch has drawn attention to an urgent legal problem but has failed to reckon with the role that his own court has played in making that problem worse" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/) 2025-07-25T13:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When the government censored Dracula Frankenstein and King Kong Monstrous government censors once hacked and slashed their way through Hollywood's original horror classics" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/) 2025-10-30T19:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "SCOTUS Won't Make Gay Marriage a Constitutional Right: Damon Root on Prop. [--] Oral Arguments "The Supreme Court seems to think that the backers of California's Proposition [--] don't have the standing to bring this" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2013/03/26/scotus-wont-make-gay-marriage-a-constitu) 2013-03-26T20:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Louis Marshall: The forgotten lawyer who fought Jim Crow Marshall championed economic liberty in regulatory cases while championing racial ethnic and religious minorities in civil rights cases" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/18/the-forgotten-classical-liberal-who-fought-jim-crow-and-championed-immigration/) 2025-11-18T19:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Why MAGA turned on Amy Coney Barrett Amy Coney Barrett helped the Supreme Court expand gun rights and eliminate the right to abortion. Why are some right-wingers now attacking her" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/) 2025-06-19T11:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "SCOTUS sounds ready to let Trump fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case with huge implications for presidential power and the future of independent federal agencies" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/09/scotus-sounds-ready-to-let-trump-fire-ftc-commissioner-rebecca-slaughter/) 2025-12-09T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Supreme Court Rules Against Florida Regulators Imposing "Extortionate Demands" on Property Owner - Reason.com Credit: Library of Congress In a major win for property rights advocates the U.S. Supreme Court today in Koontz v" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2013/06/25/supreme-court-rules-against-florida-regu) 2013-06-25T14:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Do cops still need a warrant to search your home in an 'emergency' SCOTUS will soon decide" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/08/19/do-cops-still-need-a-warrant-to-search-your-home-in-an-emergency/) 2025-08-19T14:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Overruling Trumps tariffs should be an easy decision for SCOTUS Trump unilaterally imposed tariffs on much of the world. Yet the president has no such authority under Article II of the Constitution" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/06/05/overruling-trumps-tariffs-should-be-an-easy-decision-for-scotus/) 2025-06-05T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Did Brett Kavanaugh just apologize for butchering the Fourth Amendment Maybe. Puzzling over a curious omission from the conservative United States Supreme Court justice" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/01/did-brett-kavanaugh-just-apologize-for-butchering-the-fourth-amendment-maybe/) 2026-01-01T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trump vs. the Judiciary - Reason.com Trump attacks "so-called judge" who issued nationwide temporary restraining order against travel ban" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/05/trump-vs-the-judiciary) 2017-02-05T21:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Dont let federal agents dodge accountability for violating rights The Supreme Court ruled last week that an innocent family's lawsuit against the federal government over a wrong house raid may now proceed" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/06/17/dont-let-rights-violating-federal-agents-dodge-accountability/) 2025-06-17T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "John Roberts touts judicial independence subtly rebukes Trump In his annual review of federal courts the SCOTUS chief justice calls the judiciary 'a counter-majoritarian check on the political branches.'" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/06/john-roberts-touts-judicial-independence-subtly-rebukes-trump-in-year-end-report-on-federal-courts/) 2026-01-06T22:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Amy Coney Barretts case for originalism falls short The Supreme Court justices new book fails to practice the same historical fidelity that it preaches" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/16/amy-coney-barretts-case-for-originalism-falls-short/) 2025-09-16T18:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "No ICE agents do not have absolute immunity from state prosecution J.D. Vance's assertion that federal agents enjoy 'absolute immunity' from state prosecution is unsound as a statement of law" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/13/no-ice-agents-do-not-have-absolute-immunity-from-state-prosecution/) 2026-01-13T12:01Z [----] followers, 21.3K engagements "Yes the First Amendment applies to non-citizens in the U.S. A conservative appeals court judge says free speech may not cover non-citizens. Supreme Court precedent and history say otherwise" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/18/yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states/) 2025-12-18T20:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "What happens when U.S. presidents defy court orders The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/04/18/what-happens-when-presidents-defy-court-orders/) 2025-04-18T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Warrantless searches tariffs and the unitary executive: [--] SCOTUS cases to watch this fall In a new Supreme Court term packed with big cases these disputes stand out" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/07/warrantless-searches-tariffs-and-the-unitary-executive-3-scotus-cases-to-watch-this-fall/) 2025-10-07T11:01Z [----] followers, 14.8K engagements "What Frederick Douglass can still teach us about the Fourth of July Douglass set an example for all of us to follow not only on Independence Day but on every day" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/07/03/what-frederick-douglass-can-still-teach-us-about-the-fourth-of-july/) 2025-07-04T03:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "How the 'Curtiss-Wright' precedent might aid Trump's tariffs at SCOTUS For the justices the question is just how much deference the president deserves" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/) 2025-11-11T14:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Why does SCOTUS hear so few Second Amendment cases The right to keep and bear arms occupies a curious place in American legal history" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/13/why-does-scotus-hear-so-few-second-amendment-cases/) 2025-11-13T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "SCOTUS is now poised to overrule 'Humphreys Executor' a [----] precedent limiting presidential power The Supreme Court is poised to rule in favor of Donald Trump and overturn a [----] precedent limiting presidential power" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/) 2025-09-25T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor Join Forces in Gun Case Dissent - Reason.com The Supreme Court rules 6-2 in emVoisine v. United States./em" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2016/06/27/clarence-thomas-and-sonia-sotomayor-join) 2016-06-27T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "On National Guard deployments Trump tells SCOTUS his power is unreviewable According to President Trump he alone gets to decide the conditions for when state National Guard members are called into federal service" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/21/on-national-guard-deployments-trump-tells-scotus-his-power-is-unreviewable/) 2025-10-21T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "On tariffs it was Gorsuch vs. Trump at SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch likely sees Trump's tariffs as a violation of the separation of powers and nondelegation doctrine" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/) 2025-11-06T14:18Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements "Trump hopes to bully SCOTUS into upholding his tariffs. Will it work Will it work" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/) 2025-10-28T18:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trumps unconstitutional act of war against Iran Plus: A criminal justice case that managed to unite Alito and Gorsuch" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/06/24/trumps-unconstitutional-act-of-war/) 2025-06-24T13:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Amy Coney Barrett is right to reject 'common good constitutionalism' Limits on government power are a venerable and beneficial feature of our system" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/) 2025-10-09T20:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Zora Neale Hurstons Inconvenient Individualism - Reason.com The author of emTheir Eyes Were Watching God/em defies easy political categorization" [X Link](https://reason.com/2022/05/22/zora-neale-hurstons-inconvenient-individualism/) 2022-05-23T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Trump wont enforce the TikTok ban. Is that constitutional The U.S. Constitution requires the president to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/07/10/trump-wont-enforce-the-tiktok-ban-is-that-constitutional/) 2025-07-10T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Supreme Courts chance to restore the separation of powers Congress let presidents and agencies assume its powers. SCOTUS can now either enforce constitutional limits or let that drift continue" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/11/a-judicial-solution-for-presidential-overreach-and-congressional-abdication/) 2025-12-11T15:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "James Madison said the role of the judiciary was to stand as an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive. If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power. If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1888636008696361108) 2025-02-09T17:08Z [----] followers, 27.6K engagements "Excited to read this. WAGING WAR FOR FREEDOM WITH THE 54TH MASSACHUSETTS is a fresh look at the service of this famed regiment as told through John W. M. Appleton's memoirthe most complete first-person account available about their service. Save 40% when you order now: https://t.co/ut4zBlzAye https://t.co/PeRRP9AaKd WAGING WAR FOR FREEDOM WITH THE 54TH MASSACHUSETTS is a fresh look at the service of this famed regiment as told through John W. M. Appleton's memoirthe most complete first-person account available about their service. Save 40% when you order now: https://t.co/ut4zBlzAye" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1917991208669921304) 2025-05-01T17:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "David Souter will probably not be remembered for anything that he wrote as a justice. But he will be remembered for the backlash that his judicial appointment inspired. https://reason.com/2025/05/12/david-souter-shaped-the-supreme-court-through-the-backlash-he-inspired/ https://reason.com/2025/05/12/david-souter-shaped-the-supreme-court-through-the-backlash-he-inspired/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1922062497051259247) 2025-05-12T22:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a consolidated case arising from Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship. If the Courts self-professed originalists practice what they preach the case will be a defeat for Trump. https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/ https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1923009114419974353) 2025-05-15T13:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Libertarian lawyers get the job done. US Court of International Trade just issued decision in case against Trump tariffs filed by @LJCenter and me. All "Liberation Day"/IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal and blocked by injunction see link for opinion. I will have much more to say soon: https://t.co/tg6LDgk65A US Court of International Trade just issued decision in case against Trump tariffs filed by @LJCenter and me. All "Liberation Day"/IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal and blocked by injunction see link for opinion. I will have much more to say soon: https://t.co/tg6LDgk65A" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1928085465518805230) 2025-05-29T13:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "JD Vance says the courts should be extremely deferential to Donald Trump. But Vance misunderstands both the design of the American constitutional order and the judiciarys role in it" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1928526637336875210) 2025-05-30T18:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "J.D. Vance thinks the courts should be extremely deferential to Donald Trump. But the courts are supposed to be a bulwark against presidential overreach not a rubber stamp. https://reason.com/2025/05/30/what-j-d-vance-gets-wrong-about-judicial-deference-to-executive-power/ https://reason.com/2025/05/30/what-j-d-vance-gets-wrong-about-judicial-deference-to-executive-power/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1928815248624013666) 2025-05-31T14:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trump remade the Republican Party in his own MAGA image. Will he now do the same to the conservative legal movement Trumps attack on the Federalist Society suggests we may soon find out. https://reason.com/2025/06/02/trumps-attack-on-the-federalist-society-is-a-bad-omen-for-originalism/ https://reason.com/2025/06/02/trumps-attack-on-the-federalist-society-is-a-bad-omen-for-originalism/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1929900108868354537) 2025-06-03T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Would watch the 10-part Netflix documentary about this. So I sent postcards to basically everyone I knew saying 'My God come here.'" -- me talking to Czech Radio's @Ian_Willoughby about [----] Prague & what came after. https://t.co/MW9lcKKuRT So I sent postcards to basically everyone I knew saying 'My God come here.'" -- me talking to Czech Radio's @Ian_Willoughby about [----] Prague & what came after. https://t.co/MW9lcKKuRT" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1930372378233536982) 2025-06-04T21:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "My new @reason newsletter INJUSTICE SYSTEM officially launches today and the inaugural issue has it all. Come for the constitutional case against Trumps tariffs stay for my love letter to the heavy metal band Slayer. Link follows. I hope youll check it out" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1930632173071077481) 2025-06-05T14:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@reason https://reason.com/2025/06/05/overruling-trumps-tariffs-should-be-an-easy-decision-for-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/06/05/overruling-trumps-tariffs-should-be-an-easy-decision-for-scotus/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1930632246643302410) 2025-06-05T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The clock is ticking for SCOTUS. The current term closes this month and over two dozen cases are still pending. Which means a ton of big decisions will be dropping soon. This morning I wrote about the three cases that Im watching out for" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1932440260652277864) 2025-06-10T14:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "For more about these cases and about the other constitutional conflicts now roiling the courts subscribe to my @reason newsletter INJUSTICE SYSTEM. https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-page/ https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-page/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1932442427572318264) 2025-06-10T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The latest INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter dropped today and this one goes above and beyond. Come for the legal battle over online porn age-verification and the First Amendment stay for my ode to watching zombie movies at the local drive-in. Link follows. You know what to do" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1932525648553390325) 2025-06-10T19:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A welcome win for the good guys today at SCOTUS in the wrong-house raid case Martin v. U.S. Justice Gorsuchs majority opinion ruled for the innocent family and let their lawsuit against the feds move forward. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-362_mjn0.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-362_mjn0.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1933188188702495217) 2025-06-12T15:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This is the case arising from an FBI raid that was supposed to be carried out at a different house on a different block in search of a different person. But the lower court said the innocent family was blocked from filing suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1933189027978711471) 2025-06-12T15:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Trump has unilaterally summoned thousands of members of the California National Guard into federal service. But the federal law that Trump has cited in support of that National Guard deployment would seem to forbid the very thing that Trump is now doing" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1933245254955905200) 2025-06-12T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "SCOTUS ruled 9-0 last week that an innocent familys lawsuit over a wrong-house raid may proceed. Thats the good news. But the ruling was also a depressing reminder that all too many people face all too many legal obstacles when it comes to suing federal agents for misconduct" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1935069907944976733) 2025-06-17T20:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Link: https://reason.com/2025/06/17/dont-let-rights-violating-federal-agents-dodge-accountability/ https://reason.com/2025/06/17/dont-let-rights-violating-federal-agents-dodge-accountability/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1935070001435644272) 2025-06-17T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about MAGA's bizarre attack on the Trump appointee who has helped to expand gun rights curtail affirmative action kill Chevron deference and eliminate abortion rights. Link follows. Thank you for your attention to this matter" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1935806928334340334) 2025-06-19T21:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Link: https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/ https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1935807035062337718) 2025-06-19T21:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For more on MAGA v. ACB and on the other legal controversies now roiling the courts please subscribe to my newsletter. https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1935807950410375387) 2025-06-19T21:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As youre waiting for SCOTUS to release more opinions this morning why not read about MAGAs bizarre attack on the Trump appointee who helped to expand gun rights limit affirmative action overrule Chevron deference and eliminate the right to abortion. https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/ https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1936057676850774493) 2025-06-20T13:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about how the framers wisely placed the power to declare war in the hands of Congress not in the hands of the president" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1937548742799802407) 2025-06-24T16:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As James Madison explained "the constitution supposes what the History of all Govts. demonstrates that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war & most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the Legisl."" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1937549118940791210) 2025-06-24T16:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Some members of the founding generation did argue that the president should possess an independent war-making authority. But their voices were effectively drowned out in a sea of disapproval" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1937549631090753606) 2025-06-24T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Link: https://reason.com/2025/06/24/trumps-unconstitutional-act-of-war/ https://reason.com/2025/06/24/trumps-unconstitutional-act-of-war/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1937549807867805738) 2025-06-24T16:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "SCOTUS decided an important criminal justice case last week by a vote of 7-2. What made that numerical sorting unusual was the fact that the [--] dissenters were Alito and Gorsuch who often butt heads in criminal justice cases. What happened" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1937614067792740367) 2025-06-24T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Esteras v. U.S. centered on the discretion of federal judges to revoke a defendants supervised release from prison. The Court held that district judges must stick to the enumerated sentencing factors and not consider any other factors when revoking supervised release" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1937614174634361309) 2025-06-24T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As for Gorsuch the case is another reminder that despite his seemingly libertarian legal instincts in some areas he is far from a thoroughgoing libertarian jurist" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1937615069111533959) 2025-06-24T20:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For more on this case and on other big conflicts now roiling the courts please subscribe to my newsletter. https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1937615540505165953) 2025-06-24T20:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Todays the day for SCOTUS watchers. Were expecting the final decisions of the term to drop this morning including big ones about free speech and age-verification for porn sites and about birthright citizenship and nationwide injunctions. https://reason.com/2025/06/10/3-supreme-court-cases-to-watch-in-june-2025/ https://reason.com/2025/06/10/3-supreme-court-cases-to-watch-in-june-2025/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1938586971707728039) 2025-06-27T13:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The fight over nationwide injunctions may be over for now but the fight over class-action lawsuits against presidential orders is about to heat up. Some thoughts on todays huge SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. CASA. https://reason.com/2025/06/27/supreme-court-rules-6-3-for-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-case/ https://reason.com/2025/06/27/supreme-court-rules-6-3-for-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-case/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1938677999995326701) 2025-06-27T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "By telling federal district judges to lay off on nationwide injunctions SCOTUS has left Trump more powerful to impose his second term agenda. But the Courts ruling also contains several exceptions that may render Trumps victory short-lived. My latest (link follows)" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1940100006804852956) 2025-07-01T17:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "You may have heard that the Supreme Court "killed" or "eliminated" nationwide injunctions. But that's not quite accurate. The better word is probably limited" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1940100399937331208) 2025-07-01T17:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For more on nationwide injunctions birthright citizenship and the other legal controversies roiling the courts please subscribe to my newsletter. https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1940100909293609055) 2025-07-01T17:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Frederick Douglass fought the good fight helping to make his country a freer place than it was before. He set an example for all of us to follow not only on Independence Day but on every day. https://reason.com/2025/07/03/what-frederick-douglass-can-still-teach-us-about-the-fourth-of-july/ https://reason.com/2025/07/03/what-frederick-douglass-can-still-teach-us-about-the-fourth-of-july/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1941230439118803099) 2025-07-04T20:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Constitution requires the president to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Yet Trump is refusing the enforce the TikTok ban and telling tech companies they may violate it without incurring any legal liability. Is that constitutional My latest (link follows)" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1943321344185139654) 2025-07-10T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Link: https://reason.com/2025/07/10/trump-wont-enforce-the-tiktok-ban-is-that-constitutional/ https://reason.com/2025/07/10/trump-wont-enforce-the-tiktok-ban-is-that-constitutional/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1943321516168614006) 2025-07-10T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Unfortunately this is all too accurate. Good training to be a future SCOTUS justice: denigrate substantive due process while simultaneously treating the text of the 9Am and the 14Ams Privileges or Immunitites Clause as having zero legal effect. In other words project your own personal desire for a Constitution that Good training to be a future SCOTUS justice: denigrate substantive due process while simultaneously treating the text of the 9Am and the 14Ams Privileges or Immunitites Clause as having zero legal effect. In other words project your own personal desire for a Constitution that" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1943663025262674002) 2025-07-11T13:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody briefly detain them and question them . based on their physical appearance." https://t.co/aQzwepaHpk Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody briefly detain them and question them . based on their physical appearance." https://t.co/aQzwepaHpk" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1943693785004638545) 2025-07-11T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Black Sabbath live at Madison Square Garden in [----] on the bands final world tour. I was lucky to be there. Thanks for the music Ozzy. RIP" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1947753878167887876) 2025-07-22T20:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "They say that when the Ramones first played in England members of the Clash were in the audience.then away they went. While the Ramones launched a million bands Jack McAuliffe launched [-----] American craft breweries. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/jack-mcauliffe-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/jack-mcauliffe-dead.html" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1947998864616677451) 2025-07-23T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "My latest newsletter is about Neil Gorsuchs disappointing take on how too much law is harming America. Gorsuch succeeds in drawing attention to an urgent problem but he fails to reckon with the role his own court has played in making that problem even worse. (Link follows.)" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1948736557365465443) 2025-07-25T13:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Link: https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/ https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1948736679767842896) 2025-07-25T13:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "And dont forget to subscribe https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1948736779047018572) 2025-07-25T13:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The greatest Elvis movie Aug 16th [----] - Sebastian Haff (Bruce Campbell) died. Sebastian was an Elvis Presley impersonator. After Elvis grew tired of fame he switched lives with Sebastian. 📽📅 Bubba Ho-tep (2002) https://t.co/QHvLI8Nn3D Aug 16th [----] - Sebastian Haff (Bruce Campbell) died. Sebastian was an Elvis Presley impersonator. After Elvis grew tired of fame he switched lives with Sebastian. 📽📅 Bubba Ho-tep (2002) https://t.co/QHvLI8Nn3D" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1956742890123600111) 2025-08-16T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Do the cops still need a warrant to search your home in an emergency SCOTUS will soon decide. https://reason.com/2025/08/19/do-cops-still-need-a-warrant-to-search-your-home-in-an-emergency/ https://reason.com/2025/08/19/do-cops-still-need-a-warrant-to-search-your-home-in-an-emergency/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1957806397350936616) 2025-08-19T14:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For my INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I recently examined one of the foundational debates in American law: Was the Bill of Rights a bad idea Some Founding Fathers thought so. Did they have a point (Link follows)" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1957886030788337816) 2025-08-19T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Link https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/ https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1957886155547947378) 2025-08-19T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Of course the post-liberal right is now openly trashing the First Amendment. Few things: 1) Antonin Scalia was a great Supreme Court Justice and a genuinely kind and decent person. 2) The President's EO is consistent with Texas v. Johnson. 3) Texas v. Johnson was wrong and William Rehnquist was right. Few things: 1) Antonin Scalia was a great Supreme Court Justice and a genuinely kind and decent person. 2) The President's EO is consistent with Texas v. Johnson. 3) Texas v. Johnson was wrong and William Rehnquist was right" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1960418260626891193) 2025-08-26T19:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery on this day in [----]. On Monday the third day of September [----] in accordance with my resolution I bade farewell to the city of Baltimore and to that slavery which had been my abhorrence from childhood" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1963248372745191703) 2025-09-03T14:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Amy Coney Barretts new book offers a readable mix of memoir and manifesto. But its case for originalism falls short by failing to practice the historical fidelity that it preaches. https://reason.com/2025/09/16/amy-coney-barretts-case-for-originalism-falls-short/ https://reason.com/2025/09/16/amy-coney-barretts-case-for-originalism-falls-short/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1968017440320926192) 2025-09-16T18:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "John Roberts just passed the [--] year mark as chief justice. For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about how his uneven judicial record qualifies him as both friend and foe to executive power. (Link follows)" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1973750390480060814) 2025-10-02T14:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Link: https://reason.com/2025/10/02/after-20-years-as-chief-justice-john-roberts-is-now-friend-and-foe-to-executive-power/ https://reason.com/2025/10/02/after-20-years-as-chief-justice-john-roberts-is-now-friend-and-foe-to-executive-power/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1973750502019182874) 2025-10-02T14:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Donald Trump and Franklin Roosevelt are not typically seen as ideological compatriots. But their shared vision of broad executive power is certainly evident in one of the biggest cases of the upcoming SCOTUS term. https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/ https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1974128379894128858) 2025-10-03T15:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Amy Coney Barrett says common good constitutionalism is just kind of results-oriented jurisprudence from the right. For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about why Justice Barrett is wise to reject this right-wing alternative to originalism. https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/nab=0 https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/nab=0" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1976388786310222233) 2025-10-09T20:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "SCOTUS heard arguments yesterday in a case about the emergency aid exception to the 4th Amendments warrant requirement. The justices seemed unwilling to put any new limits on warrantless home searches by the police. https://reason.com/2025/10/16/scotus-probably-wont-put-any-new-limits-on-warrantless-home-searches/nab=0 https://reason.com/2025/10/16/scotus-probably-wont-put-any-new-limits-on-warrantless-home-searches/nab=0" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1978816678872936821) 2025-10-16T13:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Federal law says the president may only call state National Guard members "into Federal service" when certain specific conditions are met. According to Trump he alone gets to decide when or if such conditions exist. https://reason.com/2025/10/21/on-national-guard-deployments-trump-tells-scotus-his-power-is-unreviewable/nab=0 https://reason.com/2025/10/21/on-national-guard-deployments-trump-tells-scotus-his-power-is-unreviewable/nab=0" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1980630346635850177) 2025-10-21T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Obama was widely criticized by conservatives after he used the presidential bully pulpit to pressure SCOTUS into upholding Obamacare. Now Trump is using the same bully pulpit to pressure SCOTUS into upholding his tariffs. https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/ https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1983232715123028134) 2025-10-28T18:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Trump is using the presidential bully pulpit to pressure SCOTUS into upholding his tariffs. But if the justices are looking for non-legal arguments the economic evidence arrayed against the tariffs will be more useful than Trumps pronouncements. https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/ https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1983614557303271901) 2025-10-29T19:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Halloween is nearly here so for todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about monsters. Specifically I wrote about the monstrous government censors who once hacked and slashed their way through Hollywood's original horror classics. https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/ https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1983974252270539193) 2025-10-30T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy Halloween Heres a real shocker about free speech scary movies and the monstrous government censors who once hacked and slashed their way through Hollywoods original horror classics. (Link followsif you dare)" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1984265589083505107) 2025-10-31T14:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Link: https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/ https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1984265652434337977) 2025-10-31T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The case over Trumps tariffs arrives at SCOTUS tomorrow. Will Chief Justice Roberts allow Trump to get away with the same kind of executive overreach that Roberts previously stopped Biden from getting away with https://reason.com/2025/11/04/trumps-tariffs-and-john-roberts-credibility/ https://reason.com/2025/11/04/trumps-tariffs-and-john-roberts-credibility/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1985718987456434548) 2025-11-04T14:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Two years ago Chief Justice Roberts led the Supreme Court in overruling Bidens executive overreach. Will Trumps executive overreach on tariffs now receive the same treatment https://reason.com/2025/11/04/trumps-tariffs-and-john-roberts-credibility/ https://reason.com/2025/11/04/trumps-tariffs-and-john-roberts-credibility/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1985821449828122967) 2025-11-04T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Good points. Another thing to listen for is whether Kavanaugh (and other R-appointed justices) suggest that Trumps tariffs are exempt from the major questions doctrine because they involve foreign affairs and/or national security. [--] things to listen for in tomorrow's SCOTUS hearing on tariffs: [--]. Will the DOJ try to argue that tariffs are not taxes but regulatory "surcharges" under the international commerce clause out of the hope that this gives them more leeway under delegation of congressional power [--] things to listen for in tomorrow's SCOTUS hearing on tariffs: [--]. Will the DOJ try to" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1985843118772506893) 2025-11-04T22:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When I covered the Obamacare case in [----] I was lucky to get a seat inside SCOTUS where only a small number of us witnessed the arguments in real time. Today everybody gets to listen to live audio of the oral arguments over Trumps tariffs. Today is the way it should be" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1986079316258500645) 2025-11-05T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Things to watch out for in todays big SCOTUS showdown over tariffs. [--]. Does Roberts see the case as an Obamacare redux where SCOTUS owes extra deference to a presidents signature policy If so Roberts votes for Trump. Or" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1986082491598270768) 2025-11-05T14:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "2. Does Roberts see the case as a Biden student loan redux where the president violated the separation of powers by wielding authority that properly belonged to Congress If so Roberts votes against Trump" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1986082583244103747) 2025-11-05T14:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "3. Does Kavanaugh suggest that Trumps tariffs are exempt from judicial scrutiny under the major questions doctrine because they involve foreign affairs/national security If so Kavanaugh votes for Trump" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1986082679595372658) 2025-11-05T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "4. Does Gorsuch lean in on non-delegation and separation of powers concerns If so Gorsuch may vote against Trump" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1986082819232166144) 2025-11-05T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "5. Does anybody on SCOTUS buy Trumps argument that the major questions doctrine applies only to executive agencies and therefore does not bind the president himself (I doubt that argument gets much traction but you never know.)" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1986083022269997244) 2025-11-05T14:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's never wise to predict the outcome of a Supreme Court case based solely on what happened during oral arguments. So lets attempt it anyway. Heres my take on yesterdays big Supreme Court showdown over the legality of Trumps tariffs. https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1986438092752888125) 2025-11-06T14:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Based on yesterdays oral arguments at SCOTUS its conceivable that we get a 5-4 ruling against Trumps tariffs with Gorsuch and Roberts (or Barrett) joining Kagan Sotomayor and Jackson. Conceivable but not guaranteed. https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1986548453220962545) 2025-11-06T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about the [----] case that the Trump administration desperately wants SCOTUS to embrace to aid Trumps tariffs. https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1988256126454956127) 2025-11-11T14:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "During last weeks arguments over Trumps tariffs the solicitor general kept invoking a [----] case called Curtiss-Wright. The reason why is because if SCOTUS embraces that case now Trumps tariffs stand a chance of winning. https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1988366438390800418) 2025-11-11T22:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about the unjustly forgotten Louis Marshall (1856-1929) a classical liberal lawyer and activist who battled Jim Crow and championed the rights of immigrants. https://reason.com/2025/11/18/the-forgotten-classical-liberal-who-fought-jim-crow-and-championed-immigration/ https://reason.com/2025/11/18/the-forgotten-classical-liberal-who-fought-jim-crow-and-championed-immigration/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1990876660099346865) 2025-11-18T20:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "No SCOTUS did not invent judicial review in Marbury v. Madison. https://reason.com/2025/12/02/no-scotus-did-not-invent-judicial-review-in-marbury-v-madison/ https://reason.com/2025/12/02/no-scotus-did-not-invent-judicial-review-in-marbury-v-madison/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1995956047719399538) 2025-12-02T20:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Its webathon time at @reason If you find my work to be valuable informative or interesting I hope you will considering making a donation. Heres the sort of writing that your donations will help support. Thanks for reading Thread/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1996950807950905592) 2025-12-05T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Why Amy Coney Barrett is right to reject common good constitutionalism. https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/ https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1996950914549096795) 2025-12-05T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Why some Founding Fathers believed the Bill of Rights was a bad idea. https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/ https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1996951035714179309) 2025-12-05T14:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Why Neil Gorsuchs latest book was a big disappointment to me. https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/ https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1996951217096864050) 2025-12-05T14:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Why Trumps case against birthright citizenship is a constitutional loser. https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/ https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/" [X Link](https://x.com/damonroot/status/1996951399414841395) 2025-12-05T14:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "What Karl Marx can teach us about freedom of speech. https://reason.com/2025/07/17/a-free-speech-lesson-from-karl-marx/ https://reason.com/2025/07/17/a-free-speech-lesson-from-karl-marx/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1996951538644693148) 2025-12-05T14:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Thanks again for reading If youd like to support my work please consider donating today. https://reason.com/donate/rfr=tw002&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_webathon_2025 https://reason.com/donate/rfr=tw002&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_webathon_2025" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1996951816718754174) 2025-12-05T14:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Big day today at SCOTUS as a [----] precedent limiting executive power is squarely on the chopping block. https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/ https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1998037671982272817) 2025-12-08T14:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Whats left of the separation of powers when an overreaching president meets a supine Congress Madison called the judiciary an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive. But is today's SCOTUS up to the job https://reason.com/2025/12/11/a-judicial-solution-for-presidential-overreach-and-congressional-abdication/ https://reason.com/2025/12/11/a-judicial-solution-for-presidential-overreach-and-congressional-abdication/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1999143215505580089) 2025-12-11T15:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Yes the First Amendment applies to non-citizens who are present in the United States. https://reason.com/2025/12/18/yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states/ https://reason.com/2025/12/18/yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2001756494975373490) 2025-12-18T20:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Did Brett Kavanaugh just apologize for butchering the Fourth Amendment Maybe. https://reason.com/2026/01/01/did-brett-kavanaugh-just-apologize-for-butchering-the-fourth-amendment-maybe/ https://reason.com/2026/01/01/did-brett-kavanaugh-just-apologize-for-butchering-the-fourth-amendment-maybe/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2007188945961185310) 2026-01-02T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "JD Vance claims ICE agents have absolute immunity from state prosecution. Supreme Court precedent says otherwise. https://reason.com/2026/01/13/no-ice-agents-do-not-have-absolute-immunity-from-state-prosecution/ https://reason.com/2026/01/13/no-ice-agents-do-not-have-absolute-immunity-from-state-prosecution/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011451170926281071) 2026-01-14T14:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "When the Supreme Court Upheld a Compulsory Vaccination Law Infectious disease public health and the Constitution" [X Link](https://reason.com/2020/04/30/when-the-supreme-court-upheld-a-compulsory-vaccination-law/) 2020-05-22T17:38Z [----] followers, 138.7K engagements "Conservative judicial activists vs. ICE Why a conservative judges patience is at an end over Trumps immigration crackdown in Minnesota" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/29/conservative-judicial-activists-vs-ice/) 2026-01-29T13:15Z [----] followers, 292.3K engagements "Man Versus the State - Reason.com Economist Walter E. Williams reflects on his long career battling Jim Crow big government and liberal orthodoxy" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2011/01/28/man-versus-the-state) 2011-01-28T21:40Z [----] followers, 186.1K engagements "Straight Talk Slowdown - Reason.com Why isn't John McCain criticizing Joe Biden over Supreme Court nominations" [X Link](https://reason.com/2008/09/09/straight-talk-slowdown/) 2022-06-24T21:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Biden Admits New CDC Eviction Moratorium Runs Counter to the Bulk of the Constitutional Scholarship The Supreme Court will likely rule against Bidens executive gambit" [X Link](https://reason.com/2021/08/06/biden-admits-new-cdc-eviction-moratorium-runs-counter-to-the-bulk-of-the-constitutional-scholarship/) 2023-09-24T06:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Alex Pretti's shooters are shielded from lawsuits thanks to SCOTUS Current Supreme Court precedent makes it difficult to sue federal officers for constitutional violations even after fatal shootings" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/27/the-feds-who-killed-alex-pretti-are-heavily-shielded-from-being-sued-blame-the-supreme-court-for-that/) 2026-01-27T12:01Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements "Bad Bunny and the SCOTUS precedent that denies Puerto Ricans their rights Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show helped teach a valuable civics lesson to certain uninformed conservative pundits" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/02/10/bad-bunny-and-the-scotus-precedent-that-denies-constitutional-rights-to-puerto-ricans/) 2026-02-10T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Supreme Court Sides With Police In 4th Amendment Case Arising from Officer's 'Mistake of Law' Credit: C-SPAN In a decision issued this morning the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the police in a case arising" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2014/12/15/supreme-court-sides-with-police-in-4th-a) 2014-12-15T16:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Does the Supreme Court trust Trump to follow court orders Why did seven justicesincluding three appointed by President Donald Trumpdecide that a midnight order was necessary and appropriate" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/04/21/alito-and-thomas-may-trust-trump-to-follow-a-court-order-but-gorsuch-kavanaugh-and-barrett-seemingly-do-not/) 2025-04-21T20:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The federal agents who shot Alex Pretti are heavily shielded from being sued. Blame the Supreme Court for that. https://reason.com/2026/01/27/the-feds-who-killed-alex-pretti-are-heavily-shielded-from-being-sued-blame-the-supreme-court-for-that/ https://reason.com/2026/01/27/the-feds-who-killed-alex-pretti-are-heavily-shielded-from-being-sued-blame-the-supreme-court-for-that/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016173801084469465) 2026-01-27T15:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Today at SCOTUS: When Do Facebook Rants Qualify As 'True Threats' of Violence - Reason.com In October and November [----] Anthony Elonis like many other Americans repeatedly used the social networking site Facebook as a" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2014/12/01/today-at-scotus-when-do-facebook-rants) 2014-12-01T14:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Liberals Worry the Health Care Decision Will Kill the New Deal - Reason.com As Nick Gillespie noted earlier Mother Jones writer Nick Baumann was made so nervous by yesterday's health care decision that" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2010/12/14/liberals-worry-the-health-care) 2010-12-20T22:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Rand Paul vs. Robert Bork - Reason.com During the second hour of his nearly 13-hour Senate filibuster this week Kentucky Republican Rand Paul invoked the Supreme Court's" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2013/03/08/rand-paul-vs-robert-bork) 2013-03-08T14:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Brett Kavanaugh Calls Carpenter v. United States a 'Game Changer' on 4th Amendment Law - Reason.com The Supreme Court nominee talks warrantless government surveillance with Sen. Patrick Leahy" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/13/brett-kavanaugh-calls-carpenter-v-united) 2018-09-13T13:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Trump's Unconstitutional Attack on Sanctuary Cities - Reason.com How the president's executive order debases the Constitution" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2017/01/29/trumps-unconstitutional-attack-on-sanctu) 2017-01-30T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Does Cohen-Manafort Mean Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Can't Be Confirmed - Reason.com Liberal critics want the Senate to hit the pause button. Will it" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/22/cohen-manafort-kavanaugh-scotus) 2018-08-22T18:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "If You Wear a Federal Badge You Can Inflict Excessive Force on Someone With Little Fear of Liability Complains Judge Don Willett - Reason.com A federal judge protests the Supreme Courts rights-without-remedies iBivens/i doctrine" [X Link](https://reason.com/2021/03/11/if-you-wear-a-federal-badge-you-can-inflict-excessive-force-on-someone-with-little-fear-of-liability-complains-judge-don-willett/) 2021-03-11T16:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "What Amy Coney Barrett Got Wrong About Lochner - Reason.com Justice Barrett should revisit her views on this wrongly maligned case" [X Link](https://reason.com/2021/01/21/what-amy-coney-barrett-got-wrong-about-lochner/) 2021-01-21T16:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Kavanaugh flaunts the Fourth Amendment blesses racial profiling The Supreme Court justices stance on immigration enforcement is undermined by the facts of the case before him" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/11/kavanaugh-flaunts-the-fourth-amendment-and-blesses-trumps-racial-profiling/) 2025-09-11T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Spilled Milk - Reason.com A brief history of the dairy lobby's unwholesome influence on the U.S. Supreme Court" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2015/07/07/spilled-milk) 2018-01-11T22:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Born in the U.S.A. - Reason.com The misguided movement to strip birthright citizenship from the Constitution" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2010/08/11/born-in-the-usa) 2015-08-18T16:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Trump vs. the Constitution - Reason.com The misguided attack on birthright citizenship" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2015/11/10/trump-vs-the-constitution) 2018-07-19T13:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Louis Brandeis' Partial Justice - Reason.com How the famous jurist shaped-and misshaped-American law" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2010/03/19/louis-brandeis-partial-justice) 2014-11-13T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "SCOTUS Shortlister Amy Coney Barrett on Overturning Precedent and Judicial Deference to Lawmakers - Reason.com Reviewing the record of a possible replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/03/scotus-short-lister-amy-coney-barrett-on) 2018-07-03T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Future of Gay Marriage - Reason.com In his [----] majority opinion in the case of Romer v. Evans Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy struck down a" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2012/02/08/justice-anthony-kennedy-and-the-future-o) 2012-02-08T16:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Black Conservative Tradition - Reason.com In the latest New Republic historian Steven Hahn has a long and very interesting review of the recent Booker T" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2009/10/27/the-black-conservative-traditi) 2012-03-06T16:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Hillary Clinton vs. Merrick Garland - Reason.com The Democratic presidential candidate disavows Obama's SCOTUS pick" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2016/09/16/hillary-clinton-vs-merrick-garland) 2016-09-16T15:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "How Gorsuch Took a Page From Scalia in an LGBT Employment Discrimination Case - Reason.com "Only the written word is the law and all persons are entitled to its benefit."" [X Link](https://reason.com/2020/06/15/how-gorsuch-took-a-page-from-scalia-in-an-lgbt-employment-discrimination-case/) 2020-06-16T13:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Neil Gorsuch Benchslaps Donald Trump Calls President's Attack on Judiciary 'Demoralizing' and 'Disheartening' - Reason.com Trump SCOTUS nominee rejects Trump's attack on the courts" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/09/gorsuch-benchslaps-trump-calls-president) 2017-02-09T14:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Justice Kennedy Let the Voters Ban Affirmative Action. Will He Let Them Ban Gay Marriage Too - Reason.com Credit: C-Span In his opinion last month upholding a Michigan constitutional amendment forbidding the use of affirmative action in state" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2014/05/09/justice-kennedy-let-the-states-ban-affir) 2014-05-09T16:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Federal Court Says 'Good Cause' Requirement for Conceal-Carry Permits Violates the Second Amendment - Reason.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit handed gun rights advocates a major victory today by invalidating San" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2014/02/13/federal-court-says-good-cause-requiremen) 2014-02-13T19:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "2 Trump cases to watch as SCOTUS returns from summer break The administration lost two major cases before two different federal courts in the last week. Let's see if they end up on the SCOTUS docket" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/04/2-trump-cases-to-watch-as-the-supreme-court-returns-from-summer-break/) 2025-09-04T23:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "If Brett Kavanaugh Drops Out Will Trump Pick Amy Coney Barrett - Reason.com Understanding what happens next if the Kavanaugh nomination falls apart" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/17/if-brett-kavanaugh-drops-out-will-trump) 2018-09-18T13:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Constitutional Originalists Against Trump - Reason.com Why top libertarian and conservative legal scholars oppose the GOP candidate" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2016/10/17/constitutional-originalists-against-trum) 2016-10-17T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Frederick Douglass Classical Liberal - Reason.com A fresh look at the political evolution of a great American" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2012/07/17/frederick-douglass-classical-liberal) 2016-02-01T19:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Looming Supreme Court Showdown Over Sanctuary Cities - Reason.com The legal battle over immigration federalism and executive power heats up" [X Link](https://reason.com/2020/02/28/the-looming-supreme-court-showdown-over-sanctuary-cities/) 2020-03-02T15:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Battle for Brooklyn Shortlisted for an Oscar - Reason.com The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Battle for Brooklyn the acclaimed documentary about New York's" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2011/11/21/battle-for-brooklyn-shortlisted-for-an-o) 2011-11-21T20:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "What the Election of Donald Trump Means for the Future of the Supreme Court - Reason.com Trump's win has already impacted SCOTUS" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2016/11/09/what-the-election-of-donald-trump-means) 2016-11-09T18:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Neil Gorsuch Joins Liberals in 5-4 SCOTUS Opinion Striking Down Portion of Federal Immigration Law - Reason.com The Supreme Court rules against the federal government in emSessions v. Dimaya/em" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2018/04/17/neil-gorsuch-joins-liberals-in-5-4-scotu) 2018-04-17T15:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Federal Cops Attacked a 70-Year-Old Vietnam Veteran and Then Avoided Accountability in Court - Reason.com The Supreme Court declines to hear arguments in iOliva v. Nivar/i" [X Link](https://reason.com/2021/05/24/federal-cops-attacked-a-70-year-old-vietnam-veteran-and-then-avoided-accountability-in-court/) 2021-05-25T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Has the First Amendment Become a 'Conservative' Legal Cause - Reason.com The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a series of cases this term that raise fundamental questions about the scope of" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2014/03/20/has-free-speech-become-a-conservative-le) 2014-03-20T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Does Neil Gorsuch Side With Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia on the 14th Amendment The Slaughter-House Cases and the Privileges or Immunities Clause - Reason.com Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has something in common with both Justice Clarence Thomas and with the late Justice Antonin" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2017/03/20/does-neil-gorsuch-side-with-clarence-tho) 2017-03-21T13:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Jeff Sessions' Case Against California's Sanctuary Cities Is a Constitutional Loser - Reason.com The Constitution prevents the feds from commandeering state and local officials" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/14/jeff-sessions-case-against-californias-s) 2018-03-14T18:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Connecticut Supreme Court Justice to Susette Kelo: "I'm Sorry" - Reason.com A hell of a story from The Hartford Courant's Jeff Benedict who was present for an extraordinary encounter between Connecticut" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2011/09/19/connecticut-supreme-court-just) 2011-09-19T17:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Eminent Domain Reform at the Mississippi Ballot Box - Reason.com The Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Somin runs down the issues at stake today in Mississippi as voters consider the fate of" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2011/11/08/eminent-domain-reform-at-the-mississippi) 2011-11-08T16:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Kavanaugh Accuses Gorsuch of Judicial Activism in Criminal Justice Case - Reason.com The Court usually reads statutes with a presumption of rationality and a presumption of constitutionality" [X Link](https://reason.com/2019/06/24/kavanaugh-accuses-gorsuch-of-judicial-activism-in-criminal-justice-case/) 2019-06-24T17:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Does the Constitution Allow State Governments to Grant "Special Benefits" to Favored Industries Louisiana Says Yes - Reason.com Last week the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the state's" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2013/07/23/does-the-constitution-allow-state-govern) 2013-07-23T19:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Rise and Fall of the New York City Tattoo Ban - Reason.com How government regulators tried to kill the skin & ink trade" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2014/03/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-new-york-city-t) 2014-03-10T13:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Should Occupy Wall Street Occupy the Constitution - Reason.com Yale University law professor Jack Balkin one of the leading proponents of progressive originalism which is the idea that the" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2011/10/20/should-occupy-wall-street-occu) 2011-10-20T16:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This SCOTUS Precedent Is Bad News for Trump's Emergency Border Wall Declaration - Reason.com "Extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional power."" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/19/this-scotus-precedent-is-bad-news-for-tr) 2019-02-20T14:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "John Roberts only postponed the fight over Trumps deportations The Supreme Court did not answer two of the biggest legal questions raised by Trumps invocation of the Alien Enemies Act" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/04/09/john-roberts-only-postponed-the-bigger-fight-over-trumps-deportations/) 2025-04-09T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Ayn Rand Herbert Spencer and ObamaCare - Reason.com As Sasha Volokh notes at The Volokh Conspiracy during oral arguments yesterday at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Acting" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2011/06/09/ayn-rand-herbert-spencer-and-o) 2011-06-09T18:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "'A Freedom-Destroying Cocktail': Justice Breyer Keeps Siding with the Cops in Fourth Amendment Cases - Reason.com In his [----] book Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer urged the federal courts" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2014/04/28/a-freedom-destroying-cocktail-justice-br) 2014-04-28T19:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Clarence Thomas Attacks the Supreme Court's 'Increasingly Cavalier Attitude Toward the States' on Gay Marriage - Reason.com Credit: C-SPAN Last month a federal judge invalidated Alabama's ban on gay marriage. In response state officials asked the U.S" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2015/02/09/clarence-thomas-attacks-the-supreme-cour) 2015-02-09T15:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "3 Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Month - Reason.com Here are the SCOTUS cases to watch in February" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/16/3-supreme-court-cases-to-watch-this-mont) 2018-02-20T14:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Anthony Kennedy Voted Against Obamacare and For Gays and Guns. Is He a Libertarian - Reason.com Credit: C-SPAN Writing at Slate University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner claims that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy "is" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2013/06/28/is-justice-anthony-kennedy-a-libertarian) 2013-06-28T17:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Meet Roscoe Filburn the Dead Farmer at the Center of the ObamaCare Case - Reason.com ABC News introduces its readers to Roscoe Filburn the Ohio farmer whose [----] loss at the Supreme Court now serves" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2012/01/30/meet-roscoe-filburn-the-dead-farmer-at-t) 2012-01-30T23:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "3 Supreme Court Cases to Watch in Fall [----] - Reason.com What's at stake in the new SCOTUS term" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2017/10/02/3-supreme-court-cases-to-watch-in-fall-2) 2017-10-02T14:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Conservatives v. Libertarians - Reason.com The debate over judicial activism divides former allies" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2010/06/08/conservatives-v-libertarians) 2013-10-14T15:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Ohio Silences Political Speech Gets Hauled Before Supreme Court - Reason.com The right to speak freely about politics is one of the core protections secured by the First Amendment. It's a" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2014/04/02/ohio-silences-political-speech-gets-haul) 2014-06-16T14:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Meet the Liberals Backing Obama's Executive Power Play in Labor Board Case - Reason.com The Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obama's recess appointments" [X Link](https://reason.com/archives/2014/01/07/meet-the-liberals-backing-obamas-executi) 2014-01-07T18:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Trumps L.A. National Guard deployment stands on shaky legal ground The federal law that Trump has cited in support of deploying the California National Guard seems to forbid the thing that Trump is now doing" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/06/12/trumps-l-a-national-guard-deployment-stands-on-shaky-legal-ground/) 2025-06-12T11:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Significant 4th Amendment Case on Warrantless Cell Phone Location Searches - Reason.com The Supreme Court will hear arguments in emCarpenter v. U.S./em next term" [X Link](https://reason.com/blog/2017/06/05/scotus-agrees-to-hear-significant-4th-am) 2017-06-05T14:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Mike Johnson wants to spare ICE the hassle of getting the right warrant before forcibly entering a home Here's a quick reminder of what the Fourth Amendment has to say about that"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:01Z [----] followers, 365.1K engagements
"An Unconstitutional Arrest for Refusing To Show ID to the Cops - Reason.com Fourth Amendment advocates prevail in iWingate v. Fulford/i"
X Link 2021-02-09T13:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"3 Supreme Court cases to watch in June A ton of big SCOTUS decisions will be dropping over the next few weeks. Here are three of the most noteworthy ones"
X Link 2025-06-10T14:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Was the Bill of Rights a bad idea Some Founding Fathers thought so. Some framers feared that if certain rights were enumerated in the text unenumerated rights would be vulnerable to government abuse"
X Link 2025-08-18T18:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How Eminent Domain Transformed a Nice Neighborhood into a Dump - Reason.com You seriously cannot make this stuff up. New London Connecticut the municipality that received the Supreme Court's notorious stamp of"
X Link 2011-09-01T22:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Trans athletes guns and the Federal Reserve: [--] SCOTUS cases to watch The Court's January docket is already packed full of high-profile cases that deal with some of the most controversial topics in American law"
X Link 2026-01-09T03:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SCOTUS probably wont put any new limits on warrantless home searches The Supreme Court weighed the emergency aid exception to the Fourth Amendment in a major case this week"
X Link 2025-10-16T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SCOTUS rules [--] for Trump limits 'nationwide injunctions' in birthright citizenship case Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch declared Justice Amy Coney Barrett"
X Link 2025-06-27T17:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trumps latest tariff defense asserts uncheckable executive power Trump's transparent effort to evade the major questions doctrine deserves to be rejected by the Supreme Court"
X Link 2025-09-23T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"No SCOTUS did not 'invent' judicial review in Marbury v. Madison The Supreme Courts power to nullify legislative and executive acts is inherent in the Constitution"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Brett Kavanaugh says Trump threatens Federal Reserve independence Trumps legal arguments would weaken if not shatter the independence of the Federal Reserve the justice said"
X Link 2026-01-22T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Chief Justice John Roberts is both friend and foe to executive power Roberts has now been the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court for [--] years. His record reveals an uneven judicial philosophy"
X Link 2025-10-02T14:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A free speech lesson from Karl Marx Censorship tends to blow up in the faces of the censors. Just ask Karl Marx"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trumps case against birthright citizenship is a constitutional loser Trumps case against birthright citizenship is an insult to the text history and original public meaning of the Constitution"
X Link 2025-05-14T19:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Eyes on Gorsuch as SCOTUS weighs transgender student athlete bans SCOTUS heard arguments this week over state bans on transgender student athletes. Heres why Court watchers were paying close attention to Neil Gorsuch"
X Link 2026-01-15T12:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What Neil Gorsuch gets wrong about judges and government power Gorsuch has drawn attention to an urgent legal problem but has failed to reckon with the role that his own court has played in making that problem worse"
X Link 2025-07-25T13:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When the government censored Dracula Frankenstein and King Kong Monstrous government censors once hacked and slashed their way through Hollywood's original horror classics"
X Link 2025-10-30T19:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SCOTUS Won't Make Gay Marriage a Constitutional Right: Damon Root on Prop. [--] Oral Arguments "The Supreme Court seems to think that the backers of California's Proposition [--] don't have the standing to bring this"
X Link 2013-03-26T20:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Louis Marshall: The forgotten lawyer who fought Jim Crow Marshall championed economic liberty in regulatory cases while championing racial ethnic and religious minorities in civil rights cases"
X Link 2025-11-18T19:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why MAGA turned on Amy Coney Barrett Amy Coney Barrett helped the Supreme Court expand gun rights and eliminate the right to abortion. Why are some right-wingers now attacking her"
X Link 2025-06-19T11:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SCOTUS sounds ready to let Trump fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case with huge implications for presidential power and the future of independent federal agencies"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Supreme Court Rules Against Florida Regulators Imposing "Extortionate Demands" on Property Owner - Reason.com Credit: Library of Congress In a major win for property rights advocates the U.S. Supreme Court today in Koontz v"
X Link 2013-06-25T14:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Do cops still need a warrant to search your home in an 'emergency' SCOTUS will soon decide"
X Link 2025-08-19T14:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Overruling Trumps tariffs should be an easy decision for SCOTUS Trump unilaterally imposed tariffs on much of the world. Yet the president has no such authority under Article II of the Constitution"
X Link 2025-06-05T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Did Brett Kavanaugh just apologize for butchering the Fourth Amendment Maybe. Puzzling over a curious omission from the conservative United States Supreme Court justice"
X Link 2026-01-01T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trump vs. the Judiciary - Reason.com Trump attacks "so-called judge" who issued nationwide temporary restraining order against travel ban"
X Link 2017-02-05T21:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Dont let federal agents dodge accountability for violating rights The Supreme Court ruled last week that an innocent family's lawsuit against the federal government over a wrong house raid may now proceed"
X Link 2025-06-17T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"John Roberts touts judicial independence subtly rebukes Trump In his annual review of federal courts the SCOTUS chief justice calls the judiciary 'a counter-majoritarian check on the political branches.'"
X Link 2026-01-06T22:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Amy Coney Barretts case for originalism falls short The Supreme Court justices new book fails to practice the same historical fidelity that it preaches"
X Link 2025-09-16T18:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"No ICE agents do not have absolute immunity from state prosecution J.D. Vance's assertion that federal agents enjoy 'absolute immunity' from state prosecution is unsound as a statement of law"
X Link 2026-01-13T12:01Z [----] followers, 21.3K engagements
"Yes the First Amendment applies to non-citizens in the U.S. A conservative appeals court judge says free speech may not cover non-citizens. Supreme Court precedent and history say otherwise"
X Link 2025-12-18T20:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What happens when U.S. presidents defy court orders The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions"
X Link 2025-04-18T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Warrantless searches tariffs and the unitary executive: [--] SCOTUS cases to watch this fall In a new Supreme Court term packed with big cases these disputes stand out"
X Link 2025-10-07T11:01Z [----] followers, 14.8K engagements
"What Frederick Douglass can still teach us about the Fourth of July Douglass set an example for all of us to follow not only on Independence Day but on every day"
X Link 2025-07-04T03:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How the 'Curtiss-Wright' precedent might aid Trump's tariffs at SCOTUS For the justices the question is just how much deference the president deserves"
X Link 2025-11-11T14:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why does SCOTUS hear so few Second Amendment cases The right to keep and bear arms occupies a curious place in American legal history"
X Link 2025-11-13T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SCOTUS is now poised to overrule 'Humphreys Executor' a [----] precedent limiting presidential power The Supreme Court is poised to rule in favor of Donald Trump and overturn a [----] precedent limiting presidential power"
X Link 2025-09-25T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor Join Forces in Gun Case Dissent - Reason.com The Supreme Court rules 6-2 in emVoisine v. United States./em"
X Link 2016-06-27T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"On National Guard deployments Trump tells SCOTUS his power is unreviewable According to President Trump he alone gets to decide the conditions for when state National Guard members are called into federal service"
X Link 2025-10-21T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On tariffs it was Gorsuch vs. Trump at SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch likely sees Trump's tariffs as a violation of the separation of powers and nondelegation doctrine"
X Link 2025-11-06T14:18Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements
"Trump hopes to bully SCOTUS into upholding his tariffs. Will it work Will it work"
X Link 2025-10-28T18:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trumps unconstitutional act of war against Iran Plus: A criminal justice case that managed to unite Alito and Gorsuch"
X Link 2025-06-24T13:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Amy Coney Barrett is right to reject 'common good constitutionalism' Limits on government power are a venerable and beneficial feature of our system"
X Link 2025-10-09T20:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Zora Neale Hurstons Inconvenient Individualism - Reason.com The author of emTheir Eyes Were Watching God/em defies easy political categorization"
X Link 2022-05-23T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump wont enforce the TikTok ban. Is that constitutional The U.S. Constitution requires the president to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.""
X Link 2025-07-10T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Supreme Courts chance to restore the separation of powers Congress let presidents and agencies assume its powers. SCOTUS can now either enforce constitutional limits or let that drift continue"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"James Madison said the role of the judiciary was to stand as an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive. If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power. If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion"
X Link 2025-02-09T17:08Z [----] followers, 27.6K engagements
"Excited to read this. WAGING WAR FOR FREEDOM WITH THE 54TH MASSACHUSETTS is a fresh look at the service of this famed regiment as told through John W. M. Appleton's memoirthe most complete first-person account available about their service. Save 40% when you order now: https://t.co/ut4zBlzAye https://t.co/PeRRP9AaKd WAGING WAR FOR FREEDOM WITH THE 54TH MASSACHUSETTS is a fresh look at the service of this famed regiment as told through John W. M. Appleton's memoirthe most complete first-person account available about their service. Save 40% when you order now: https://t.co/ut4zBlzAye"
X Link 2025-05-01T17:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"David Souter will probably not be remembered for anything that he wrote as a justice. But he will be remembered for the backlash that his judicial appointment inspired. https://reason.com/2025/05/12/david-souter-shaped-the-supreme-court-through-the-backlash-he-inspired/ https://reason.com/2025/05/12/david-souter-shaped-the-supreme-court-through-the-backlash-he-inspired/"
X Link 2025-05-12T22:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a consolidated case arising from Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship. If the Courts self-professed originalists practice what they preach the case will be a defeat for Trump. https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/ https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/"
X Link 2025-05-15T13:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Libertarian lawyers get the job done. US Court of International Trade just issued decision in case against Trump tariffs filed by @LJCenter and me. All "Liberation Day"/IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal and blocked by injunction see link for opinion. I will have much more to say soon: https://t.co/tg6LDgk65A US Court of International Trade just issued decision in case against Trump tariffs filed by @LJCenter and me. All "Liberation Day"/IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal and blocked by injunction see link for opinion. I will have much more to say soon: https://t.co/tg6LDgk65A"
X Link 2025-05-29T13:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"JD Vance says the courts should be extremely deferential to Donald Trump. But Vance misunderstands both the design of the American constitutional order and the judiciarys role in it"
X Link 2025-05-30T18:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"J.D. Vance thinks the courts should be extremely deferential to Donald Trump. But the courts are supposed to be a bulwark against presidential overreach not a rubber stamp. https://reason.com/2025/05/30/what-j-d-vance-gets-wrong-about-judicial-deference-to-executive-power/ https://reason.com/2025/05/30/what-j-d-vance-gets-wrong-about-judicial-deference-to-executive-power/"
X Link 2025-05-31T14:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trump remade the Republican Party in his own MAGA image. Will he now do the same to the conservative legal movement Trumps attack on the Federalist Society suggests we may soon find out. https://reason.com/2025/06/02/trumps-attack-on-the-federalist-society-is-a-bad-omen-for-originalism/ https://reason.com/2025/06/02/trumps-attack-on-the-federalist-society-is-a-bad-omen-for-originalism/"
X Link 2025-06-03T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Would watch the 10-part Netflix documentary about this. So I sent postcards to basically everyone I knew saying 'My God come here.'" -- me talking to Czech Radio's @Ian_Willoughby about [----] Prague & what came after. https://t.co/MW9lcKKuRT So I sent postcards to basically everyone I knew saying 'My God come here.'" -- me talking to Czech Radio's @Ian_Willoughby about [----] Prague & what came after. https://t.co/MW9lcKKuRT"
X Link 2025-06-04T21:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"My new @reason newsletter INJUSTICE SYSTEM officially launches today and the inaugural issue has it all. Come for the constitutional case against Trumps tariffs stay for my love letter to the heavy metal band Slayer. Link follows. I hope youll check it out"
X Link 2025-06-05T14:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@reason https://reason.com/2025/06/05/overruling-trumps-tariffs-should-be-an-easy-decision-for-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/06/05/overruling-trumps-tariffs-should-be-an-easy-decision-for-scotus/"
X Link 2025-06-05T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The clock is ticking for SCOTUS. The current term closes this month and over two dozen cases are still pending. Which means a ton of big decisions will be dropping soon. This morning I wrote about the three cases that Im watching out for"
X Link 2025-06-10T14:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"For more about these cases and about the other constitutional conflicts now roiling the courts subscribe to my @reason newsletter INJUSTICE SYSTEM. https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-page/ https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-page/"
X Link 2025-06-10T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The latest INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter dropped today and this one goes above and beyond. Come for the legal battle over online porn age-verification and the First Amendment stay for my ode to watching zombie movies at the local drive-in. Link follows. You know what to do"
X Link 2025-06-10T19:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A welcome win for the good guys today at SCOTUS in the wrong-house raid case Martin v. U.S. Justice Gorsuchs majority opinion ruled for the innocent family and let their lawsuit against the feds move forward. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-362_mjn0.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-362_mjn0.pdf"
X Link 2025-06-12T15:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is the case arising from an FBI raid that was supposed to be carried out at a different house on a different block in search of a different person. But the lower court said the innocent family was blocked from filing suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act"
X Link 2025-06-12T15:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump has unilaterally summoned thousands of members of the California National Guard into federal service. But the federal law that Trump has cited in support of that National Guard deployment would seem to forbid the very thing that Trump is now doing"
X Link 2025-06-12T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SCOTUS ruled 9-0 last week that an innocent familys lawsuit over a wrong-house raid may proceed. Thats the good news. But the ruling was also a depressing reminder that all too many people face all too many legal obstacles when it comes to suing federal agents for misconduct"
X Link 2025-06-17T20:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Link: https://reason.com/2025/06/17/dont-let-rights-violating-federal-agents-dodge-accountability/ https://reason.com/2025/06/17/dont-let-rights-violating-federal-agents-dodge-accountability/"
X Link 2025-06-17T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about MAGA's bizarre attack on the Trump appointee who has helped to expand gun rights curtail affirmative action kill Chevron deference and eliminate abortion rights. Link follows. Thank you for your attention to this matter"
X Link 2025-06-19T21:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Link: https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/ https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/"
X Link 2025-06-19T21:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For more on MAGA v. ACB and on the other legal controversies now roiling the courts please subscribe to my newsletter. https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle"
X Link 2025-06-19T21:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As youre waiting for SCOTUS to release more opinions this morning why not read about MAGAs bizarre attack on the Trump appointee who helped to expand gun rights limit affirmative action overrule Chevron deference and eliminate the right to abortion. https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/ https://reason.com/2025/06/19/why-maga-turned-on-amy-coney-barrett/"
X Link 2025-06-20T13:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about how the framers wisely placed the power to declare war in the hands of Congress not in the hands of the president"
X Link 2025-06-24T16:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As James Madison explained "the constitution supposes what the History of all Govts. demonstrates that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war & most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the Legisl.""
X Link 2025-06-24T16:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Some members of the founding generation did argue that the president should possess an independent war-making authority. But their voices were effectively drowned out in a sea of disapproval"
X Link 2025-06-24T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Link: https://reason.com/2025/06/24/trumps-unconstitutional-act-of-war/ https://reason.com/2025/06/24/trumps-unconstitutional-act-of-war/"
X Link 2025-06-24T16:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SCOTUS decided an important criminal justice case last week by a vote of 7-2. What made that numerical sorting unusual was the fact that the [--] dissenters were Alito and Gorsuch who often butt heads in criminal justice cases. What happened"
X Link 2025-06-24T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Esteras v. U.S. centered on the discretion of federal judges to revoke a defendants supervised release from prison. The Court held that district judges must stick to the enumerated sentencing factors and not consider any other factors when revoking supervised release"
X Link 2025-06-24T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As for Gorsuch the case is another reminder that despite his seemingly libertarian legal instincts in some areas he is far from a thoroughgoing libertarian jurist"
X Link 2025-06-24T20:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For more on this case and on other big conflicts now roiling the courts please subscribe to my newsletter. https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle"
X Link 2025-06-24T20:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Todays the day for SCOTUS watchers. Were expecting the final decisions of the term to drop this morning including big ones about free speech and age-verification for porn sites and about birthright citizenship and nationwide injunctions. https://reason.com/2025/06/10/3-supreme-court-cases-to-watch-in-june-2025/ https://reason.com/2025/06/10/3-supreme-court-cases-to-watch-in-june-2025/"
X Link 2025-06-27T13:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The fight over nationwide injunctions may be over for now but the fight over class-action lawsuits against presidential orders is about to heat up. Some thoughts on todays huge SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. CASA. https://reason.com/2025/06/27/supreme-court-rules-6-3-for-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-case/ https://reason.com/2025/06/27/supreme-court-rules-6-3-for-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-case/"
X Link 2025-06-27T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"By telling federal district judges to lay off on nationwide injunctions SCOTUS has left Trump more powerful to impose his second term agenda. But the Courts ruling also contains several exceptions that may render Trumps victory short-lived. My latest (link follows)"
X Link 2025-07-01T17:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"You may have heard that the Supreme Court "killed" or "eliminated" nationwide injunctions. But that's not quite accurate. The better word is probably limited"
X Link 2025-07-01T17:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For more on nationwide injunctions birthright citizenship and the other legal controversies roiling the courts please subscribe to my newsletter. https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle"
X Link 2025-07-01T17:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Frederick Douglass fought the good fight helping to make his country a freer place than it was before. He set an example for all of us to follow not only on Independence Day but on every day. https://reason.com/2025/07/03/what-frederick-douglass-can-still-teach-us-about-the-fourth-of-july/ https://reason.com/2025/07/03/what-frederick-douglass-can-still-teach-us-about-the-fourth-of-july/"
X Link 2025-07-04T20:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Constitution requires the president to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Yet Trump is refusing the enforce the TikTok ban and telling tech companies they may violate it without incurring any legal liability. Is that constitutional My latest (link follows)"
X Link 2025-07-10T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Link: https://reason.com/2025/07/10/trump-wont-enforce-the-tiktok-ban-is-that-constitutional/ https://reason.com/2025/07/10/trump-wont-enforce-the-tiktok-ban-is-that-constitutional/"
X Link 2025-07-10T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Unfortunately this is all too accurate. Good training to be a future SCOTUS justice: denigrate substantive due process while simultaneously treating the text of the 9Am and the 14Ams Privileges or Immunitites Clause as having zero legal effect. In other words project your own personal desire for a Constitution that Good training to be a future SCOTUS justice: denigrate substantive due process while simultaneously treating the text of the 9Am and the 14Ams Privileges or Immunitites Clause as having zero legal effect. In other words project your own personal desire for a Constitution that"
X Link 2025-07-11T13:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody briefly detain them and question them . based on their physical appearance." https://t.co/aQzwepaHpk Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody briefly detain them and question them . based on their physical appearance." https://t.co/aQzwepaHpk"
X Link 2025-07-11T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Black Sabbath live at Madison Square Garden in [----] on the bands final world tour. I was lucky to be there. Thanks for the music Ozzy. RIP"
X Link 2025-07-22T20:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"They say that when the Ramones first played in England members of the Clash were in the audience.then away they went. While the Ramones launched a million bands Jack McAuliffe launched [-----] American craft breweries. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/jack-mcauliffe-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/jack-mcauliffe-dead.html"
X Link 2025-07-23T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"My latest newsletter is about Neil Gorsuchs disappointing take on how too much law is harming America. Gorsuch succeeds in drawing attention to an urgent problem but he fails to reckon with the role his own court has played in making that problem even worse. (Link follows.)"
X Link 2025-07-25T13:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Link: https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/ https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/"
X Link 2025-07-25T13:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"And dont forget to subscribe https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle https://subscribe.reason.com/injustice-system-landing-pageutm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_newsletters_injustice_system&utm_content=author_handle"
X Link 2025-07-25T13:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The greatest Elvis movie Aug 16th [----] - Sebastian Haff (Bruce Campbell) died. Sebastian was an Elvis Presley impersonator. After Elvis grew tired of fame he switched lives with Sebastian. 📽📅 Bubba Ho-tep (2002) https://t.co/QHvLI8Nn3D Aug 16th [----] - Sebastian Haff (Bruce Campbell) died. Sebastian was an Elvis Presley impersonator. After Elvis grew tired of fame he switched lives with Sebastian. 📽📅 Bubba Ho-tep (2002) https://t.co/QHvLI8Nn3D"
X Link 2025-08-16T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Do the cops still need a warrant to search your home in an emergency SCOTUS will soon decide. https://reason.com/2025/08/19/do-cops-still-need-a-warrant-to-search-your-home-in-an-emergency/ https://reason.com/2025/08/19/do-cops-still-need-a-warrant-to-search-your-home-in-an-emergency/"
X Link 2025-08-19T14:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For my INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I recently examined one of the foundational debates in American law: Was the Bill of Rights a bad idea Some Founding Fathers thought so. Did they have a point (Link follows)"
X Link 2025-08-19T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Link https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/ https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/"
X Link 2025-08-19T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Of course the post-liberal right is now openly trashing the First Amendment. Few things: 1) Antonin Scalia was a great Supreme Court Justice and a genuinely kind and decent person. 2) The President's EO is consistent with Texas v. Johnson. 3) Texas v. Johnson was wrong and William Rehnquist was right. Few things: 1) Antonin Scalia was a great Supreme Court Justice and a genuinely kind and decent person. 2) The President's EO is consistent with Texas v. Johnson. 3) Texas v. Johnson was wrong and William Rehnquist was right"
X Link 2025-08-26T19:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery on this day in [----]. On Monday the third day of September [----] in accordance with my resolution I bade farewell to the city of Baltimore and to that slavery which had been my abhorrence from childhood"
X Link 2025-09-03T14:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Amy Coney Barretts new book offers a readable mix of memoir and manifesto. But its case for originalism falls short by failing to practice the historical fidelity that it preaches. https://reason.com/2025/09/16/amy-coney-barretts-case-for-originalism-falls-short/ https://reason.com/2025/09/16/amy-coney-barretts-case-for-originalism-falls-short/"
X Link 2025-09-16T18:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"John Roberts just passed the [--] year mark as chief justice. For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about how his uneven judicial record qualifies him as both friend and foe to executive power. (Link follows)"
X Link 2025-10-02T14:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Link: https://reason.com/2025/10/02/after-20-years-as-chief-justice-john-roberts-is-now-friend-and-foe-to-executive-power/ https://reason.com/2025/10/02/after-20-years-as-chief-justice-john-roberts-is-now-friend-and-foe-to-executive-power/"
X Link 2025-10-02T14:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Donald Trump and Franklin Roosevelt are not typically seen as ideological compatriots. But their shared vision of broad executive power is certainly evident in one of the biggest cases of the upcoming SCOTUS term. https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/ https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/"
X Link 2025-10-03T15:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Amy Coney Barrett says common good constitutionalism is just kind of results-oriented jurisprudence from the right. For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about why Justice Barrett is wise to reject this right-wing alternative to originalism. https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/nab=0 https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/nab=0"
X Link 2025-10-09T20:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"SCOTUS heard arguments yesterday in a case about the emergency aid exception to the 4th Amendments warrant requirement. The justices seemed unwilling to put any new limits on warrantless home searches by the police. https://reason.com/2025/10/16/scotus-probably-wont-put-any-new-limits-on-warrantless-home-searches/nab=0 https://reason.com/2025/10/16/scotus-probably-wont-put-any-new-limits-on-warrantless-home-searches/nab=0"
X Link 2025-10-16T13:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Federal law says the president may only call state National Guard members "into Federal service" when certain specific conditions are met. According to Trump he alone gets to decide when or if such conditions exist. https://reason.com/2025/10/21/on-national-guard-deployments-trump-tells-scotus-his-power-is-unreviewable/nab=0 https://reason.com/2025/10/21/on-national-guard-deployments-trump-tells-scotus-his-power-is-unreviewable/nab=0"
X Link 2025-10-21T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Obama was widely criticized by conservatives after he used the presidential bully pulpit to pressure SCOTUS into upholding Obamacare. Now Trump is using the same bully pulpit to pressure SCOTUS into upholding his tariffs. https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/ https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/"
X Link 2025-10-28T18:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump is using the presidential bully pulpit to pressure SCOTUS into upholding his tariffs. But if the justices are looking for non-legal arguments the economic evidence arrayed against the tariffs will be more useful than Trumps pronouncements. https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/ https://reason.com/2025/10/28/trump-hopes-to-bully-scotus-into-upholding-his-tariffs/"
X Link 2025-10-29T19:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Halloween is nearly here so for todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about monsters. Specifically I wrote about the monstrous government censors who once hacked and slashed their way through Hollywood's original horror classics. https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/ https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/"
X Link 2025-10-30T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy Halloween Heres a real shocker about free speech scary movies and the monstrous government censors who once hacked and slashed their way through Hollywoods original horror classics. (Link followsif you dare)"
X Link 2025-10-31T14:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Link: https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/ https://reason.com/2025/10/30/when-the-government-censored-dracula-frankenstein-and-king-kong/"
X Link 2025-10-31T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The case over Trumps tariffs arrives at SCOTUS tomorrow. Will Chief Justice Roberts allow Trump to get away with the same kind of executive overreach that Roberts previously stopped Biden from getting away with https://reason.com/2025/11/04/trumps-tariffs-and-john-roberts-credibility/ https://reason.com/2025/11/04/trumps-tariffs-and-john-roberts-credibility/"
X Link 2025-11-04T14:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Two years ago Chief Justice Roberts led the Supreme Court in overruling Bidens executive overreach. Will Trumps executive overreach on tariffs now receive the same treatment https://reason.com/2025/11/04/trumps-tariffs-and-john-roberts-credibility/ https://reason.com/2025/11/04/trumps-tariffs-and-john-roberts-credibility/"
X Link 2025-11-04T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Good points. Another thing to listen for is whether Kavanaugh (and other R-appointed justices) suggest that Trumps tariffs are exempt from the major questions doctrine because they involve foreign affairs and/or national security. [--] things to listen for in tomorrow's SCOTUS hearing on tariffs: [--]. Will the DOJ try to argue that tariffs are not taxes but regulatory "surcharges" under the international commerce clause out of the hope that this gives them more leeway under delegation of congressional power [--] things to listen for in tomorrow's SCOTUS hearing on tariffs: [--]. Will the DOJ try to"
X Link 2025-11-04T22:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When I covered the Obamacare case in [----] I was lucky to get a seat inside SCOTUS where only a small number of us witnessed the arguments in real time. Today everybody gets to listen to live audio of the oral arguments over Trumps tariffs. Today is the way it should be"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Things to watch out for in todays big SCOTUS showdown over tariffs. [--]. Does Roberts see the case as an Obamacare redux where SCOTUS owes extra deference to a presidents signature policy If so Roberts votes for Trump. Or"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2. Does Roberts see the case as a Biden student loan redux where the president violated the separation of powers by wielding authority that properly belonged to Congress If so Roberts votes against Trump"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"3. Does Kavanaugh suggest that Trumps tariffs are exempt from judicial scrutiny under the major questions doctrine because they involve foreign affairs/national security If so Kavanaugh votes for Trump"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"4. Does Gorsuch lean in on non-delegation and separation of powers concerns If so Gorsuch may vote against Trump"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"5. Does anybody on SCOTUS buy Trumps argument that the major questions doctrine applies only to executive agencies and therefore does not bind the president himself (I doubt that argument gets much traction but you never know.)"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's never wise to predict the outcome of a Supreme Court case based solely on what happened during oral arguments. So lets attempt it anyway. Heres my take on yesterdays big Supreme Court showdown over the legality of Trumps tariffs. https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/"
X Link 2025-11-06T14:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Based on yesterdays oral arguments at SCOTUS its conceivable that we get a 5-4 ruling against Trumps tariffs with Gorsuch and Roberts (or Barrett) joining Kagan Sotomayor and Jackson. Conceivable but not guaranteed. https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/11/06/on-tariffs-it-was-gorsuch-vs-trump-at-scotus/"
X Link 2025-11-06T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about the [----] case that the Trump administration desperately wants SCOTUS to embrace to aid Trumps tariffs. https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/"
X Link 2025-11-11T14:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"During last weeks arguments over Trumps tariffs the solicitor general kept invoking a [----] case called Curtiss-Wright. The reason why is because if SCOTUS embraces that case now Trumps tariffs stand a chance of winning. https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/ https://reason.com/2025/11/11/this-foreign-policy-precedent-might-aid-trumps-tariffs-at-scotus/"
X Link 2025-11-11T22:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For todays INJUSTICE SYSTEM newsletter I wrote about the unjustly forgotten Louis Marshall (1856-1929) a classical liberal lawyer and activist who battled Jim Crow and championed the rights of immigrants. https://reason.com/2025/11/18/the-forgotten-classical-liberal-who-fought-jim-crow-and-championed-immigration/ https://reason.com/2025/11/18/the-forgotten-classical-liberal-who-fought-jim-crow-and-championed-immigration/"
X Link 2025-11-18T20:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"No SCOTUS did not invent judicial review in Marbury v. Madison. https://reason.com/2025/12/02/no-scotus-did-not-invent-judicial-review-in-marbury-v-madison/ https://reason.com/2025/12/02/no-scotus-did-not-invent-judicial-review-in-marbury-v-madison/"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Its webathon time at @reason If you find my work to be valuable informative or interesting I hope you will considering making a donation. Heres the sort of writing that your donations will help support. Thanks for reading Thread/"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why Amy Coney Barrett is right to reject common good constitutionalism. https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/ https://reason.com/2025/10/09/amy-coney-barrett-is-right-to-reject-common-good-constitutionalism/"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Why some Founding Fathers believed the Bill of Rights was a bad idea. https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/ https://reason.com/2025/08/14/was-the-bill-of-rights-a-bad-idea-some-founding-fathers-thought-so/"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Why Neil Gorsuchs latest book was a big disappointment to me. https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/ https://reason.com/2025/07/24/what-neil-gorsuch-gets-wrong-about-judges-and-government-power/"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Why Trumps case against birthright citizenship is a constitutional loser. https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/ https://reason.com/2025/05/14/trumps-case-against-birthright-citizenship-is-a-constitutional-loser/"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What Karl Marx can teach us about freedom of speech. https://reason.com/2025/07/17/a-free-speech-lesson-from-karl-marx/ https://reason.com/2025/07/17/a-free-speech-lesson-from-karl-marx/"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Thanks again for reading If youd like to support my work please consider donating today. https://reason.com/donate/rfr=tw002&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_webathon_2025 https://reason.com/donate/rfr=tw002&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_webathon_2025"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Big day today at SCOTUS as a [----] precedent limiting executive power is squarely on the chopping block. https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/ https://reason.com/2025/09/25/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power/"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Whats left of the separation of powers when an overreaching president meets a supine Congress Madison called the judiciary an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive. But is today's SCOTUS up to the job https://reason.com/2025/12/11/a-judicial-solution-for-presidential-overreach-and-congressional-abdication/ https://reason.com/2025/12/11/a-judicial-solution-for-presidential-overreach-and-congressional-abdication/"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yes the First Amendment applies to non-citizens who are present in the United States. https://reason.com/2025/12/18/yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states/ https://reason.com/2025/12/18/yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states/"
X Link 2025-12-18T20:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Did Brett Kavanaugh just apologize for butchering the Fourth Amendment Maybe. https://reason.com/2026/01/01/did-brett-kavanaugh-just-apologize-for-butchering-the-fourth-amendment-maybe/ https://reason.com/2026/01/01/did-brett-kavanaugh-just-apologize-for-butchering-the-fourth-amendment-maybe/"
X Link 2026-01-02T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"JD Vance claims ICE agents have absolute immunity from state prosecution. Supreme Court precedent says otherwise. https://reason.com/2026/01/13/no-ice-agents-do-not-have-absolute-immunity-from-state-prosecution/ https://reason.com/2026/01/13/no-ice-agents-do-not-have-absolute-immunity-from-state-prosecution/"
X Link 2026-01-14T14:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When the Supreme Court Upheld a Compulsory Vaccination Law Infectious disease public health and the Constitution"
X Link 2020-05-22T17:38Z [----] followers, 138.7K engagements
"Conservative judicial activists vs. ICE Why a conservative judges patience is at an end over Trumps immigration crackdown in Minnesota"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:15Z [----] followers, 292.3K engagements
"Man Versus the State - Reason.com Economist Walter E. Williams reflects on his long career battling Jim Crow big government and liberal orthodoxy"
X Link 2011-01-28T21:40Z [----] followers, 186.1K engagements
"Straight Talk Slowdown - Reason.com Why isn't John McCain criticizing Joe Biden over Supreme Court nominations"
X Link 2022-06-24T21:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Biden Admits New CDC Eviction Moratorium Runs Counter to the Bulk of the Constitutional Scholarship The Supreme Court will likely rule against Bidens executive gambit"
X Link 2023-09-24T06:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Alex Pretti's shooters are shielded from lawsuits thanks to SCOTUS Current Supreme Court precedent makes it difficult to sue federal officers for constitutional violations even after fatal shootings"
X Link 2026-01-27T12:01Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements
"Bad Bunny and the SCOTUS precedent that denies Puerto Ricans their rights Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show helped teach a valuable civics lesson to certain uninformed conservative pundits"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Supreme Court Sides With Police In 4th Amendment Case Arising from Officer's 'Mistake of Law' Credit: C-SPAN In a decision issued this morning the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the police in a case arising"
X Link 2014-12-15T16:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Does the Supreme Court trust Trump to follow court orders Why did seven justicesincluding three appointed by President Donald Trumpdecide that a midnight order was necessary and appropriate"
X Link 2025-04-21T20:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The federal agents who shot Alex Pretti are heavily shielded from being sued. Blame the Supreme Court for that. https://reason.com/2026/01/27/the-feds-who-killed-alex-pretti-are-heavily-shielded-from-being-sued-blame-the-supreme-court-for-that/ https://reason.com/2026/01/27/the-feds-who-killed-alex-pretti-are-heavily-shielded-from-being-sued-blame-the-supreme-court-for-that/"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Today at SCOTUS: When Do Facebook Rants Qualify As 'True Threats' of Violence - Reason.com In October and November [----] Anthony Elonis like many other Americans repeatedly used the social networking site Facebook as a"
X Link 2014-12-01T14:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Liberals Worry the Health Care Decision Will Kill the New Deal - Reason.com As Nick Gillespie noted earlier Mother Jones writer Nick Baumann was made so nervous by yesterday's health care decision that"
X Link 2010-12-20T22:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Rand Paul vs. Robert Bork - Reason.com During the second hour of his nearly 13-hour Senate filibuster this week Kentucky Republican Rand Paul invoked the Supreme Court's"
X Link 2013-03-08T14:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Brett Kavanaugh Calls Carpenter v. United States a 'Game Changer' on 4th Amendment Law - Reason.com The Supreme Court nominee talks warrantless government surveillance with Sen. Patrick Leahy"
X Link 2018-09-13T13:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Trump's Unconstitutional Attack on Sanctuary Cities - Reason.com How the president's executive order debases the Constitution"
X Link 2017-01-30T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Does Cohen-Manafort Mean Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Can't Be Confirmed - Reason.com Liberal critics want the Senate to hit the pause button. Will it"
X Link 2018-08-22T18:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"If You Wear a Federal Badge You Can Inflict Excessive Force on Someone With Little Fear of Liability Complains Judge Don Willett - Reason.com A federal judge protests the Supreme Courts rights-without-remedies iBivens/i doctrine"
X Link 2021-03-11T16:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What Amy Coney Barrett Got Wrong About Lochner - Reason.com Justice Barrett should revisit her views on this wrongly maligned case"
X Link 2021-01-21T16:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Kavanaugh flaunts the Fourth Amendment blesses racial profiling The Supreme Court justices stance on immigration enforcement is undermined by the facts of the case before him"
X Link 2025-09-11T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Spilled Milk - Reason.com A brief history of the dairy lobby's unwholesome influence on the U.S. Supreme Court"
X Link 2018-01-11T22:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Born in the U.S.A. - Reason.com The misguided movement to strip birthright citizenship from the Constitution"
X Link 2015-08-18T16:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Trump vs. the Constitution - Reason.com The misguided attack on birthright citizenship"
X Link 2018-07-19T13:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Louis Brandeis' Partial Justice - Reason.com How the famous jurist shaped-and misshaped-American law"
X Link 2014-11-13T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"SCOTUS Shortlister Amy Coney Barrett on Overturning Precedent and Judicial Deference to Lawmakers - Reason.com Reviewing the record of a possible replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy"
X Link 2018-07-03T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Future of Gay Marriage - Reason.com In his [----] majority opinion in the case of Romer v. Evans Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy struck down a"
X Link 2012-02-08T16:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Black Conservative Tradition - Reason.com In the latest New Republic historian Steven Hahn has a long and very interesting review of the recent Booker T"
X Link 2012-03-06T16:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Hillary Clinton vs. Merrick Garland - Reason.com The Democratic presidential candidate disavows Obama's SCOTUS pick"
X Link 2016-09-16T15:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"How Gorsuch Took a Page From Scalia in an LGBT Employment Discrimination Case - Reason.com "Only the written word is the law and all persons are entitled to its benefit.""
X Link 2020-06-16T13:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Neil Gorsuch Benchslaps Donald Trump Calls President's Attack on Judiciary 'Demoralizing' and 'Disheartening' - Reason.com Trump SCOTUS nominee rejects Trump's attack on the courts"
X Link 2017-02-09T14:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Justice Kennedy Let the Voters Ban Affirmative Action. Will He Let Them Ban Gay Marriage Too - Reason.com Credit: C-Span In his opinion last month upholding a Michigan constitutional amendment forbidding the use of affirmative action in state"
X Link 2014-05-09T16:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Federal Court Says 'Good Cause' Requirement for Conceal-Carry Permits Violates the Second Amendment - Reason.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit handed gun rights advocates a major victory today by invalidating San"
X Link 2014-02-13T19:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"2 Trump cases to watch as SCOTUS returns from summer break The administration lost two major cases before two different federal courts in the last week. Let's see if they end up on the SCOTUS docket"
X Link 2025-09-04T23:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"If Brett Kavanaugh Drops Out Will Trump Pick Amy Coney Barrett - Reason.com Understanding what happens next if the Kavanaugh nomination falls apart"
X Link 2018-09-18T13:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Constitutional Originalists Against Trump - Reason.com Why top libertarian and conservative legal scholars oppose the GOP candidate"
X Link 2016-10-17T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Frederick Douglass Classical Liberal - Reason.com A fresh look at the political evolution of a great American"
X Link 2016-02-01T19:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Looming Supreme Court Showdown Over Sanctuary Cities - Reason.com The legal battle over immigration federalism and executive power heats up"
X Link 2020-03-02T15:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Battle for Brooklyn Shortlisted for an Oscar - Reason.com The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Battle for Brooklyn the acclaimed documentary about New York's"
X Link 2011-11-21T20:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What the Election of Donald Trump Means for the Future of the Supreme Court - Reason.com Trump's win has already impacted SCOTUS"
X Link 2016-11-09T18:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Neil Gorsuch Joins Liberals in 5-4 SCOTUS Opinion Striking Down Portion of Federal Immigration Law - Reason.com The Supreme Court rules against the federal government in emSessions v. Dimaya/em"
X Link 2018-04-17T15:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Federal Cops Attacked a 70-Year-Old Vietnam Veteran and Then Avoided Accountability in Court - Reason.com The Supreme Court declines to hear arguments in iOliva v. Nivar/i"
X Link 2021-05-25T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Has the First Amendment Become a 'Conservative' Legal Cause - Reason.com The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a series of cases this term that raise fundamental questions about the scope of"
X Link 2014-03-20T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Does Neil Gorsuch Side With Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia on the 14th Amendment The Slaughter-House Cases and the Privileges or Immunities Clause - Reason.com Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has something in common with both Justice Clarence Thomas and with the late Justice Antonin"
X Link 2017-03-21T13:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Jeff Sessions' Case Against California's Sanctuary Cities Is a Constitutional Loser - Reason.com The Constitution prevents the feds from commandeering state and local officials"
X Link 2018-03-14T18:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Connecticut Supreme Court Justice to Susette Kelo: "I'm Sorry" - Reason.com A hell of a story from The Hartford Courant's Jeff Benedict who was present for an extraordinary encounter between Connecticut"
X Link 2011-09-19T17:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Eminent Domain Reform at the Mississippi Ballot Box - Reason.com The Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Somin runs down the issues at stake today in Mississippi as voters consider the fate of"
X Link 2011-11-08T16:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Kavanaugh Accuses Gorsuch of Judicial Activism in Criminal Justice Case - Reason.com The Court usually reads statutes with a presumption of rationality and a presumption of constitutionality"
X Link 2019-06-24T17:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Does the Constitution Allow State Governments to Grant "Special Benefits" to Favored Industries Louisiana Says Yes - Reason.com Last week the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the state's"
X Link 2013-07-23T19:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Rise and Fall of the New York City Tattoo Ban - Reason.com How government regulators tried to kill the skin & ink trade"
X Link 2014-03-10T13:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Should Occupy Wall Street Occupy the Constitution - Reason.com Yale University law professor Jack Balkin one of the leading proponents of progressive originalism which is the idea that the"
X Link 2011-10-20T16:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This SCOTUS Precedent Is Bad News for Trump's Emergency Border Wall Declaration - Reason.com "Extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional power.""
X Link 2019-02-20T14:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"John Roberts only postponed the fight over Trumps deportations The Supreme Court did not answer two of the biggest legal questions raised by Trumps invocation of the Alien Enemies Act"
X Link 2025-04-09T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ayn Rand Herbert Spencer and ObamaCare - Reason.com As Sasha Volokh notes at The Volokh Conspiracy during oral arguments yesterday at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Acting"
X Link 2011-06-09T18:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"'A Freedom-Destroying Cocktail': Justice Breyer Keeps Siding with the Cops in Fourth Amendment Cases - Reason.com In his [----] book Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer urged the federal courts"
X Link 2014-04-28T19:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Clarence Thomas Attacks the Supreme Court's 'Increasingly Cavalier Attitude Toward the States' on Gay Marriage - Reason.com Credit: C-SPAN Last month a federal judge invalidated Alabama's ban on gay marriage. In response state officials asked the U.S"
X Link 2015-02-09T15:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"3 Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Month - Reason.com Here are the SCOTUS cases to watch in February"
X Link 2018-02-20T14:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Anthony Kennedy Voted Against Obamacare and For Gays and Guns. Is He a Libertarian - Reason.com Credit: C-SPAN Writing at Slate University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner claims that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy "is"
X Link 2013-06-28T17:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Meet Roscoe Filburn the Dead Farmer at the Center of the ObamaCare Case - Reason.com ABC News introduces its readers to Roscoe Filburn the Ohio farmer whose [----] loss at the Supreme Court now serves"
X Link 2012-01-30T23:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"3 Supreme Court Cases to Watch in Fall [----] - Reason.com What's at stake in the new SCOTUS term"
X Link 2017-10-02T14:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Conservatives v. Libertarians - Reason.com The debate over judicial activism divides former allies"
X Link 2013-10-14T15:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Ohio Silences Political Speech Gets Hauled Before Supreme Court - Reason.com The right to speak freely about politics is one of the core protections secured by the First Amendment. It's a"
X Link 2014-06-16T14:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Meet the Liberals Backing Obama's Executive Power Play in Labor Board Case - Reason.com The Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obama's recess appointments"
X Link 2014-01-07T18:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Trumps L.A. National Guard deployment stands on shaky legal ground The federal law that Trump has cited in support of deploying the California National Guard seems to forbid the thing that Trump is now doing"
X Link 2025-06-12T11:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Significant 4th Amendment Case on Warrantless Cell Phone Location Searches - Reason.com The Supreme Court will hear arguments in emCarpenter v. U.S./em next term"
X Link 2017-06-05T14:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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