California’s COVID-19 business closures have turned Ghost Golf into a shadow of its former self. Its owner is now suing the governor for the right to reopen. …
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Category: Reason
Libertarian Party Hopes for Victory in 2 Wyoming State House Races
The Libertarian Party has been pursuing a heavier-than-average ground game in races with just one major-party opponent and a small number of voters needed to win. …
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How This Summer Changed—and Failed To Change—American Policing
Lawmakers introduced hundreds of policing bills in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. A few dozen passed. …
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Which outcome would forestall Court packing longer? A Trump victory or a Biden victory?
President Trump’s § 230 Executive Order Doesn’t Do Enough To Be Challengeable
From Judge William Orrick’s opinion yesterday in Rock the Vote v. Trump (N.D. Cal.): Executive Order No. 13,925 … announces a policy position expressing concern over allegedly biased content management by online platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and directs federal agencies to take various actions to attempt to combat this purported bias. These actions… …
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Cancellation by Citation
Scholars will simply stop citing (slavery) case. That outcome is a feature, not a bug, of an apparent Bluebook change. How else will citations be used to cast moral judgments? …
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Zombies Eat Academic Brains in Misbegotten PBS Documentary Exhumed
News Outlets Are Increasingly Skeptical of Warnings About Marijuana Edibles in Trick-or-Treat Bags
Although the Halloween scare stories continue, journalists are starting to recognize the lack of evidence to support this mythical menace. …
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Trump’s Foxconn Deal Became Just Another Government Development Debacle
The Taiwanese manufacturer promised Trump and then–Governor Scott Walker 13,000 new jobs and a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant. They’ve delivered a mostly empty building that’s one-twentieth the promised size. …
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Michigan Published Decision Authorizes Anti-Libel Injunctions
Several unpublished decisions had already allowed this, but this one is binding precedent; it’s TT v. KL, decided yesterday (written by Justice Jane Markey and joined by Justices Mark Boonstra and Karen Fort Hood): We thus choose to apply the modern trend and conclude that when a respondent challenges a request for a PPO [personal protective… …
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