👤 Ilya Somin

2026-10-31 · Reason · Entertainment

Sir Patrick Stewart, RIP

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2026-09-15 · Reason · Politics

Supreme Court Refuses to Block Lower-Court Ruling Against Trump's Mail-in Ballot Executive Order

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2026-10-29 · Reason · Politics

Creating Voter Confusion About Candidates' Names is Bad - But Exploiting Voter Ignorance About Policy Issues is a Much Bigger Problem

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2026-09-11 · Reason · Politics

First Circuit Refuses to Stay District Court Injunction Against Trump's Executive Order on Mail-In Voting

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2026-08-24 · Reason · Politics

Trump Imposes Harmful and Illegal Section 338 Tariffs Against Many Canadian Imports

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2026-10-23 · Reason · Politics

Trump Sues to Block Alaska Senate Election Results Because of Potential Voter "Confusion"

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2026-08-24 · Reason

🔮 I expect there will be legal challenges to these tariffs, and those challenges will deserve to prevail. assertive

2026-09-11 · Reason

🔮 It requires action by the States' "chief election official[s]" and its policy justification is "protect[ing] the integrity of federal elections…."To the extent that appellants argue that we should read statutes authorizing the Postal Service to issue general postal regulations as supplying the necessary congressional authorization for the Final Rule, see 39 U.S.C. § 401(2) (authorizing USPS to make "such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this title, as may be necessary in the execution of its functions"); id. § 401(10) (authorizing USPS to exercise "all other powers incidental, necessary, or appropriate to the carrying on of its functions or the exercise of its specific powers"); id. § 404(a)(1) (conferring on USPS the power "to provide for the collection, handling, transportation, delivery, forwarding, returning, and holding of mail, and for the disposition of undeliverable mail") assertive

2026-09-14 · Reason

🔮 In this post, I will explain how the legal case against these actions is bolstered by the major questions and nondelegation doctrines. assertive

2026-09-14 · Reason

🔮 Here's a summary of our brief, which I prepared for the Cato website (which will also post the brief soon): assertive

2026-09-15 · Reason

🔮 Other contributors include prominent scholars and commentators, such as VC co-blogger Jonathan Adler (William and Mary), Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Samuel Moyn (Yale), Andrew McCarthy (National Review), Molly Reynolds (Brookings Institution), Rick Hasen, John McGinnis (Northwestern), Julia Azari, Aziz Huq (Chicago), Robert George (Princeton), and many more. assertive

2026-09-21 · Reason

🔮 Hannah-Jones hoped that putting her daughter there would help improve education for disadvantaged minority children, as her family's wealth and skills as political activists might stimulate reforms. assertive

2026-09-29 · Reason

🔮 Two recent books further explain the socialist elements of Nazi economic policy, and will hopefully put the final nails in the coffin of the myth that the Nazis were "capitalists" or free marketeers. assertive

2026-10-01 · Reason

🔮 That suggests appellate courts (and, ultimately, perhaps, the Supreme Court) might rule the same way. assertive

2026-10-01 · Reason

🔮 I commend Wolfers and the others for being willing to admit error and learn from it. assertive

2026-10-02 · Reason

🔮 We should not allow emergency powers intended to be used only in extreme situations to become a blank check that the executive can wield at will. assertive

2026-10-04 · Reason

🔮 And almost none of us would trade it for any of the alternatives actually on offer. assertive

2026-10-05 · Reason

🔮 And, as with tariffs, interpreting these authorities in a way that gives the president a blank check to impose import bans would run afoul of the major questions doctrine and constitutional nondelegation. assertive

2026-10-06 · Reason

🔮 What would they make of that language? assertive

2026-10-07 · Reason

🔮 I wish there was something I could say to ease the continuing pain of the victims of the attack and their families. assertive

2026-10-15 · Reason

🔮 But some would like to revive it. assertive

2026-10-16 · Reason

🔮 The court ruled that federal law does not preempt these policies, and that if if it did, there would be a violation of the anti-commandeering requirements of the Tenth Amendment: Even were the Court to find that the United States has standing and the challenged provisions are preempted—both answered in the negative above—United States' claims would still fail because the anticommandeering doctrine of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States precludes relief. mixed

2026-10-16 · Reason

🔮 [I]t seems to me that those who are fully onboard the expansion-or-bust train should have to do more than simply assert that having four new Democratic appointees on the Court in 2029 would be a self-evidently "good" thing. mixed

2026-10-17 · Reason

🔮 I would like to thank Matt for his interesting and insightful response. assertive

2026-10-17 · Reason

🔮 And I think he actually agrees with me more than the framing of his post might suggest. assertive

2026-10-23 · Reason

🔮 Today, the Trump Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block Alaska Senate election results on the grounds they might be influenced by voter "confusion" between incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan and a separate Republican candidate with a very similar name (Dan L. Sullivan). assertive

2026-10-26 · Reason

🔮 It also adopts a properly restrictive definition of "rebellion" (which is one of the conditions that might justify federalization of the National Guard). assertive

2026-10-29 · Reason

🔮 Some of those who vote for the "wrong" Dan Sullivan might rank the "right" one second. assertive

2026-10-30 · Reason

🔮 I would add, as I did in this article, that invocations of emergency powers should be subject to nondeferential judicial review, to ensure that they are used only in the event of genuine emergencies, not bogus ones. assertive

2026-10-30 · Reason

🔮 But I have a few additions and caveats that I will append after quoting a few key passages from Dan's post. assertive

2026-10-31 · Reason

🔮 In the original series, the Klingons and Romulans are mostly depicted as evil and irreconcilable enemies of the Federation, in TNG the Klingons have become allies and there is hope that there will be peace with the Romulans, as well. assertive

2026-11-01 · Reason

🔮 Today, in United States v. Alaska, federal district Judge Sharon Gleason ruled against the Trump administration's lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska Senate election results on the grounds that doing so might be necessary to prevent "voter confusion" caused by the presence of two candidates with very similar names on the ballot. assertive

2026-11-02 · Reason

🔮 If Section 338 is still valid and does grant the kind of nearly unlimited authority Trump claims, that would violate the constitutional "nondelegation" doctrine, which restricts delegation of legislative power to the executive… assertive

2026-11-03 · Reason

🔮 I address a variety of counterarguments, including claims that voting for a lesser evil makes you morally complicit in that candidate's wrongdoing, arguments that it's better to cast a "protest vote" for a candidate that has no chance of winning, arguments based on the very low probability that your vote will be decisive, and more. assertive