“What Rehnquist saw as one of his biggest achievements, Kavanaugh noted, was freeing law enforcement from the annoying restrictions placed on it in the 1960s and ’70s. And Kavanaugh was there to second the motion.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/16/brett-kavanaughs-soft-spot-for-police-ab
“On Monday night, he rewarded the swamp denizens and deep state outliers by nominating one of their own to the Supreme Court.”
“According to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, TSA officials have sovereign immunity while working in their official functions as screeners and security agents under the Federal Tort Claims Act.”
“There’s a category of story we call ‘Them Not Us’—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.”
“The ‘lesson’ Finley learned here is pretty clear. Power usually wins.”
“‘Oh come on, bruh. You’re really going to tase him? He was sitting down,’ shouts the bystander who captured the incident on camera. ‘That’s crazy. That’s why I record everything.'”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/29/pennsylvania-lancaster-officer-tasing
“In their quest for cash, municipalities across the nation are trampling individual rights and human dignity by imposing arbitrary and abusive fines on residents. In some cities, if you walk on the left side of the sidewalk rather than the right, you could be fined. BBQ in the front lawn? Face a fine. Have mismatched window treatments? Face a fine.”
Read more: https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/town-fines-municipal-governments-abuse/
“It’s absurd to think that the crime of ‘ethnic intimidation’ was meant to include citizens who angrily rant at cops who are arresting them.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/29/hate-crime-cops-nazi-black-man
“The national-security establishment has become the most powerful part of the federal government, one to which the judicial branch (as well as the other two branches) inevitably defers in matters that are critically important to the Pentagon, the CIA, or the NSA.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/29/the-supreme-courts-deference-to-the-pentagon/
“The year the Declaration of Independence was signed — 1776 — was the same year that saw the publication of Adam Smith’s famous treatise on economics, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. That is quite a coincidence, one that had enormous ramifications for liberty.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/07/03/the-revolutions-of-adam-smith-and-thomas-jefferson/