“The number of migrant children locked up by the federal government has surged by more than 20 percent and left designated detention facilities at near-capacity.”
“The excruciating DMCA section 1201 exemption process is upon us again, and the right to repair tractors, cars, and electronics is at stake.”
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbxzyv/dmca-1201-exemptions
“There are on the order of 10,000 sales tax jurisdictions. There is substantial variation in what is or is not taxed and subtleties like coupons. ”
Read more: https://www.ebaymainstreet.com/issues/internet-sales-tax
“In one case, federal officials had turned over eight immigrant children to human traffickers.”
“How free are you really, when all that’s required for the state to take your children away from you is a judge with an ax to grind?”
“Fear and loathing of sex offenders lead to results that would be recognized as unjust and illogical in any other context.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/30/he-has-to-register-as-a-sex-offender-for
“If Prop 66 had been in place when Mr. Benavides was convicted, he’d almost certainly be dead. He’d never have lived to see his exoneration.”
“It’s a story of how bureaucracy is used to grind down people by distributing their misery among as many public offices as possible.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/25/chicago-debt-impound-cars-innocent
“No American is safer because Ross Ulbricht is in jail for life. He is just one more casualty of our futile war against drugs.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/07/government-threw-silk-roads-founder-in-j/print
“The officer who shot McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with first-degree murder. Van Dyke’s lawyers sought to compel me to testify on the basis of their claim, for which they offered no evidence, that the source had given me documents protected under the Garrity rule, which protects public employees from being compelled to incriminate themselves during internal investigations conducted by their employers.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/laquan-mcdonald-case-first-amdendment/