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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason, a monthly magazine that covers politics and culture from a libertarian perspective. During two decades in journalism, he has relentlessly skewered authoritarians of the left and the right, making the case for shrinking the realm of politics and expanding the realm of individual choice. Jacobs’ work appears here at AmmoLand News through a license with Creators Syndicate.
Unless Trump successfully challenges his 34 felony convictions on appeal, he will suffer a lifelong 2A penalty that should trouble civil libertarians across the political spectrum.
The Oneida County NY Industrial Development Agency nixed that plan by agreeing to take the property so a competing business next door could use it for a parking lot…
The misplaced criticism of Hur was one of the year’s most audacious attempts at blame-shifting. Here are some more highlights….
The President Trump makes valid points in highlighting potential abuses of prosecutorial power with incoming J6 political-prisoner pardons…
Hunter Biden avoided the consequences of a criminal justice system that punishes people for conduct that violates no one’s rights and compounds that punishment when they demand the trial…
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Songer. Hankison “violated one of the most fundamental rules of deadly force,” “If they cannot see the person they’re shooting at, they cannot pull the trigger.”
The charges, which could send Colin Gray to prison for the rest of his life, are part of a broader attempt to criminalize parental failures…
Chip Mellor’s legacy, in short, is an organization that challenges people to rethink what it means to defend civil liberties, promote freedom, and help the disadvantaged.
Walz thinks the First Amendment is no barrier to government censorship of “hate speech” or “misinformation,” as he made clear in a 2022 MSNBC interview.
One of the dirty little not-so-secret secrets of the criminal justice system is undercover narcotics officers intentionally lying under oath….
Supply-side measures, which are doomed by the economics of prohibition, not only have failed to reduce drug-related deaths. They have had the opposite effect.
The film vividly illustrates the unjust consequences of civil asset forfeiture, a system of legalized larceny that allows police to seize property that is allegedly tainted by crime.
In 1990, when Trump was famous as a billionaire New York developer rather than a politician, he called the war on drugs “a joke” and recommended legalization instead.
It looks like the Supreme Court will have to remind the lower courts that criminal use of guns does not negate the right of law-abiding Americans to own them.
Home distilling, the government argued, “substantially affects interstate commerce in the aggregate” …to justify regulation of noncommercial activity. That law is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Texas ruled!
Critics say the Supreme Court’s current approach toward the 2nd Amendment is unworkable, it has been undeniably effective at defeating constitutionally dubious gun regulations…
The Supreme Court ruled that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its statutory authority when it tried to ban bump stocks. Nothing to do with 2A!?
Resident Biden, citing old-timey “gateway drug” concerns, has steadfastly resisted attempts to resolve this conflict by repealing the federal ban on marijuana.
The case involves a lawsuit that blames Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson for injuries a police officer suffered during a 2016 demonstration…
NY state has made it impossible to exercise the GOD-given right to keep & bear arms. Now we see the same strategy being applied to Marijuana.
The Biden Administration’s social media meddling went far beyond ‘information’ or ‘advice’ straight to censorship and constitutional violations of 1st amendment rights.
That restriction”covers almost the entirety of every urban location in the USA, including places that have nothing to do with the closest school.”
5th Circuit Appeals Court dismissed a Civil Rights lawsuit by a Laredo gadfly who was arrested for asking questions and criticizing public officials.
The lawlessness fostered by the Chevron doctrine, enables an administrative state that has usurped the judicial power to interpret the statutes under which it operates.
California Governor Newsom used air quotes when discussing the ‘right’ to carry firearms, making his contempt for the Constitution clear….
…”we weren’t really considering the consequences” of extreme measures such as business shutdowns, school closures, and stay-at-home orders.
In January, we learned that President Joe Biden, who had slammed Trump’s “totally irresponsible” handling of classified records, also had retained sensitive material he was not supposed to have.
Somehow the time for presenting the ‘secret’ 2020 stolen election proof has yet to arrive? What could be the delay?
HUnter Biden, who admits that he was a crack cocaine user when he bought a revolver from a Wilmington, Delaware, gun shop in 2018…
O’Connor’s parting dissents at least pointed us in the right direction by explaining why these putatively conservative principles deserve a defense across the political spectrum.
