👤 Damon Root

8 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
8
2026-09-03 – 2026-10-29
Claims per article
23
183 extracted in total
Hedged claims
12%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,963
characters
Writes for Reason.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
88%
Education
12%
Most-tagged topics
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Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
7 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.12 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-29 · Reason · Politics
A Limited Supreme Court Win for Trump's Voter Database
12 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-09-03 · Reason · Politics
John Roberts Overruled Trump's Tariffs. But He Can't Seem To Stop Trump's Ballroom.
9 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-06 · Reason · Politics
Alito Talks Retirement
6 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-20 · Reason · Politics
Trump Administration Urges SCOTUS To Uphold Federal Ban on Distilling Liquor at Home
3 outlets covered this event
2026-10-29 · Reason · Education
When Mary Wollstonecraft Read John Locke
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-01 · Reason · Politics
2 Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Month
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-03 · Reason
John Roberts Overruled Trump's Tariffs. But He Can't Seem To Stop Trump's Ballroom.
🔮 "The Declaration [of Independence] charged that George III 'has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries,'" Roberts observed in his 2025 report. assertive
2026-09-10 · Reason
Court Packing Is a Bad Idea. But It's Still Constitutional.
🔮 Article III, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution says that "the judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." assertive
2026-09-15 · Reason
Why a Trump-Appointed Judge Just Blocked the President's Mail-In Ballot Restrictions
🔮 Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the executive branch may begin to implement President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to restrict the use of mail-in ballots in the fast-approaching midterm elections this November. assertive
2026-09-29 · Reason
A Limited Supreme Court Win for Trump's Voter Database
🔮 Last year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal officials to create new systems that would allow state and local authorities to check the immigration status of both registered voters and would-be voters who were seeking to register. assertive
2026-10-01 · Reason
2 Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Month
🔮 But you may be forgiven if you didn't realize the justices had actually gone away on a summer break. assertive
2026-10-06 · Reason
Alito Talks Retirement
🔮 So declared a recent attention-grabbing headline at Politico, which probably caused a blood pressure spike among those readers who got the mistaken impression that the retirement under consideration might be imminent. mixed
2026-10-20 · Reason
Trump Administration Urges SCOTUS To Uphold Federal Ban on Distilling Liquor at Home
🔮 The 5th Circuit also denied that the federal ban on home distilling could be saved by the government's appeal to the Necessary and Proper Clause, which says that Congress has the authority "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. assertive
2026-10-29 · Reason
When Mary Wollstonecraft Read John Locke
🔮 Is it any wonder that Locke's radical case for self-ownership would appeal to a young woman like Wollstonecraft, who longed to break free from the sexist laws and cultural strictures that held her back? assertive
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