Think back to 2010. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Challenges were filed across the country. Each case presented a central question: could Congress mandate that people purchase health insurance? A vigorous debate formed. Some legal scholars, including my colleague Randy Barnett, argued that the federal mandate was beyond Congress’s powers. It was
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In 1970, three men hiked six miles into the Washington State wilderness to find Justice William O. Douglas for a temporary restraining order. Justice Douglas, on a camping trip, heard their case, left a decision the next day, and denied the application. The story is from Phil Cogswell’s “Lawyers Hike 6 Miles in Woods to
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A federal appeals court has ruled that Detroit’s practice of seizing people’s cars for months at a time without giving them a chance to contest the seizure violates vehicle owners’ 14th Amendment right to due process. The ruling requires Wayne County to provide car owners a post-seizure court hearing within two weeks. The Institute for
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Cory Clark, a behavioral scientist and a team of researchers from different disciplines, discovered that the increasing censorship in the sciences is mainly driven by scientists themselves for pro-social causes. Some critics believe that privileged groups only advocate for free speech when it affects them and are unconcerned when marginalized groups are censored. However, selective
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This week’s The Reason Roundtable features editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman discussing the election of libertarian economist Javier Milei in Argentina and the results of the federal case involving the online advertising platform Backpage. 0:31—Javier Milei elected president of Argentina 16:25—Verdicts in the Backpage trial 36:43—Weekly Listener Question 46:44—Sam Altman
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