Friday Oct. 17 12:30pm-1:30pm Zoom event: Trump, the Media, and the First Amendment
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/13/friday-oct-17-1230pm-130pm-zoom-event-trump-the-media-and-the-first-amendment/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/13/friday-oct-17-1230pm-130pm-zoom-event-trump-the-media-and-the-first-amendment/
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Friday Oct. 17 12:30pm-1:30pm Zoom event: Trump, the Media, and the First Amendment
The Trump Administration’s threats to revoke broadcasters’ licenses and President Trump’s lawsuits against media companies implicate important, and contested, Supreme Court First Amendment doctrines. Should these actions affect how courts and scholars analyze…
California Wants To Punish Social Platforms for Aiding and Abetting the First Amendment
https://reason.com/2025/10/13/california-wants-to-punish-social-platforms-for-aiding-and-abetting-the-first-amendment/
https://reason.com/2025/10/13/california-wants-to-punish-social-platforms-for-aiding-and-abetting-the-first-amendment/
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California Wants To Punish Social Platforms for Aiding and Abetting the First Amendment
Another entry into the "algorithms are magic" school of imposing liability on tech companies.
"Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Regulators' Motivations
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/13/viewpoint-diversity-requirements-as-a-new-fairness-doctrine-regulators-motivations/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/13/viewpoint-diversity-requirements-as-a-new-fairness-doctrine-regulators-motivations/
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"Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Regulators' Motivations
I have an article titled "Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine forthcoming in several months in the George...
Thoughts on Case v. Montana and the Standards for the Emergency Aid Exception
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/13/thoughts-on-case-v-montana-and-the-standards-for-the-emergency-aid-exception/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/13/thoughts-on-case-v-montana-and-the-standards-for-the-emergency-aid-exception/
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Thoughts on Case v. Montana and the Standards for the Emergency Aid Exception
The Fourth Amendment returns.
This Year's Nobel Winners for Economics Explained How Innovation Makes Us Rich
https://reason.com/2025/10/13/this-years-nobel-winners-for-economics-explained-how-innovation-makes-us-rich/
https://reason.com/2025/10/13/this-years-nobel-winners-for-economics-explained-how-innovation-makes-us-rich/
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This Year's Nobel Winners for Economics Explained How Innovation Makes Us Rich
Joel Mokyr has long made the case against technophobia, including in the pages of Reason.
Trump's Art of the Deal for Peace in the Middle East
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/13/trumps-art-of-the-deal-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/13/trumps-art-of-the-deal-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/
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Trump’s art of the deal for peace in the Middle East
Plus: new tariff threats escalate China trade war, federal layoffs begin amidst the government shutdown, and Democrats face a candidate-quality crisis
Today in Supreme Court History: October 14, 1911
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/14/today-in-supreme-court-history-october-14-1911-7/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/14/today-in-supreme-court-history-october-14-1911-7/
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Today in Supreme Court History: October 14, 1911
10/14/1911: Justice John Marshall Harlan I dies.
Is the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket Causing a 'Judicial Crisis'?
https://reason.com/2025/10/14/is-the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket-causing-a-judicial-crisis/
https://reason.com/2025/10/14/is-the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket-causing-a-judicial-crisis/
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Is the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket Causing a 'Judicial Crisis'?
Multiple judges say SCOTUS is going out of its way to grant emergency relief to the president without even bothering to explain why.
"Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Chilling Effect on Controversial Faculty Speech
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/14/viewpoint-diversity-requirements-as-a-new-fairness-doctrine-chilling-effect-on-controversial-faculty-speech/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/14/viewpoint-diversity-requirements-as-a-new-fairness-doctrine-chilling-effect-on-controversial-faculty-speech/
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"Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Chilling Effect on Controversial Faculty Speech
I have an article titled "Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine forthcoming in several months in the George...
Can Police Enter Your Home Without a Warrant? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide.
https://reason.com/2025/10/14/can-police-enter-your-home-without-a-warrant-the-supreme-court-will-soon-decide/
https://reason.com/2025/10/14/can-police-enter-your-home-without-a-warrant-the-supreme-court-will-soon-decide/
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Can Police Enter Your Home Without a Warrant? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide.
Should a simple call to emergency services be enough to justify sending heavily armed officers into someone's home?
The Agony of Defeat, Not Winning, Is What Makes Sports Exciting
https://reason.com/2025/10/14/the-agony-of-defeat-not-winning-is-what-makes-sports-exciting/
https://reason.com/2025/10/14/the-agony-of-defeat-not-winning-is-what-makes-sports-exciting/
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The Agony of Defeat, Not Winning, Is What Makes Sports Exciting
The losses suck, but they make the victories as sweet as they are. Banners live forever—right alongside the memories of devastating losses.
Justice Gorsuch Argues that the Seventh Amendment Should Apply to the States
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/14/justice-gorsuch-argues-that-the-seventh-amendment-should-apply-to-the-states/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/14/justice-gorsuch-argues-that-the-seventh-amendment-should-apply-to-the-states/
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Justice Gorsuch Argues that the Seventh Amendment Should Apply to the States
From today's opinion by Justice Gorsuch respecting the denial of certiorari in Thomas v. Humboldt County: In Minneapolis & St....
"Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Why Countervailing Pressures to Protect Controversial Views Are Likely to Be Inadequate
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/14/viewpoint-diversity-requirements-as-a-new-fairness-doctrine-why-countervailing-pressures-to-protect-controversial-views-are-likely-to-be-inadequate/
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/14/viewpoint-diversity-requirements-as-a-new-fairness-doctrine-why-countervailing-pressures-to-protect-controversial-views-are-likely-to-be-inadequate/
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"Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Why Countervailing Pressures to Protect Controversial Views Are…
I have an article titled "Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine forthcoming in several months in the George...
The Zoning Theory of Everything: Abortion Edition
https://reason.com/2025/10/14/the-zoning-theory-of-everything-abortion-edition/
https://reason.com/2025/10/14/the-zoning-theory-of-everything-abortion-edition/
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The Zoning Theory of Everything: Abortion Edition
Since modern land-use regulations give so much stopping power to local officials, that's what's Lynchburg's using to stop abortion clinics.
