let’s chill out with the politics for now. admire this beauty.
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Michael Kenyon has sued the Phoenix Police Department after officers held him on hot asphalt for several minutes in July 2024, on a day that temperatures reached 114 degrees. Kenyon received third-degree burns on his legs, chest, arms, and face, and he had to be hospitalized for more than a month. Police had initially arrested him on a charge of theft but later determined he was not a suspect in that case. Hours after a local TV station […]
John Dalton and Andrew Logan The year is 1997. It’s movie night! You hop in the car and drive to Blockbuster. When you open the door, new movies flash out from the shelves: Independence Day, Space Jam, and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. Having picked out your movie—Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs—you finally make your way to the front of the line. As the teenager working the counter hits you with a $40 late fee for Apollo 13, you […]
Using state power to enforce social orthodoxy is always a recipe for disaster. Radical Republican governments in the post-war South attempted to do just that, sowing seeds is hatred and discord in the process.
California voters roundly rejected rent control for the third time in six years tonight. With 51 percent of the vote reported, Proposition 33—which would have repealed all state-level limitations on local rent control policies—is capturing the support of just 38 percent of voters. The New York Times is declaring the initiative done and dusted. This is the third failed ballot initiative sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) that would have loosened or repealed California’s state-level limits on […]
I’ve blogged a lot about the recent geofence warrant cases in the Fourth Circuit and the Fifth Circuit, which reached opposite conclusions on whether access to geofence records is a search (and in the latter case, held all geofence warrants unconstitutional). Today the Fourth Circuit announced that will rehear its geofence warrant case, United States v. Chatrie, en banc. Meanwhile, the Fifth Circuit’s petition for rehearing is still pending. While we’re at it, it’s interesting to ponder an […]
This essay in the print edition of Reason argues that courts should overturn the “open fields” doctrine of the Fourth Amendment: In a decision issued at the dawn of Prohibition, the Supreme Court quietly gutted a freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights: the protection against unwarranted search and seizure. The 100th anniversary of that decision is a perfect time to kill the open fields doctrine. In 1919, revenue agents spotted Charlie Hester selling a quart of moonshine […]
5th place against a party no one likes and a guy who isn’t even running anymore. Absolutely garbage. submitted by /u/HYDRAlives [link] [comments]
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Previously I blogged about the Glossip case before the Supreme Court, in posts found here, here, and here. This death penalty case involves a prosecutor confessing a purported “error” where, in fact, no error exists. This past weekend, I published an op-ed in The Hill that reviews the problem of prosecutors “taking a dive” by confessing nonexistent errors. Here’s the introduction: Earlier this month, Amherst College Professor Austin Sarat criticized Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito for asking pointed questions about death row […]