Courts should not allow law enforcement to have limitless authority in executing search warrants on cell phones.
Author: Libertarians of Montgomery
Remember an Underappreciated Honest Politician
Unlike modern politicians’ attempts to evade accountability, Cleveland insisted that everyone in government be carefully monitored. “Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and affairs…[as] the price of our liberty,” because “our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees.”
The Jury Was Right Not to Give the Parkland Killer the Death Penalty
We have a broken criminal justice department with long wait times, harried, overworked public defenders, and an imperfect police force (to put it as diplomatically as possible). A state sanctioned death penalty simply can’t be trusted.
https://www.newsweek.com/jury-was-right-not-give-parkland-killer-death-penalty-opinion-1752055
Biden’s war on work continues. Freelancers should be concerned
No one accidentally becomes a freelancer. Rather workers seek out these jobs specifically to avoid 9-5 desk jobs.
Learning From People Who Vote with their Feet
When Russian forces take over, hundreds of thousands flee. When the Ukrainians retake territory, only small groups of collaborators run in the other direction.
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/10/05/learning-from-people-who-vote-with-their-feet/
Did Murders Rise in 2021? No One Knows.
As a nation, we keep horrible, incomplete data that makes it impossible to get an accurate sense of the scope or impact of crime.
https://reason.com/2022/10/06/did-murders-rise-in-2021-no-one-knows/
The FDA’s Perverse Plan To Ban Menthol Cigarettes and Cap Nicotine Levels
The FDA apparently has learned nothing from the country’s unhappy experience with the war on drugs.
https://reason.com/2022/10/06/the-fdas-perverse-plans-for-nicotine/
D.C. Zoning Officials Prepare a ‘Racial Equity Tool’ To Guide Zoning Decisions
The vague and open-ended nature of those questions has some housing activists concerned that the tool will prove overly burdensome, and even unworkable, for property owners trying to do something simple like changing their lot’s zoning from residential to commercial use.
A Jury Acquitted Them of Various Charges. They Served Prison Time for Them Anyway.
Can you do prison time for a criminal charge of which you were never convicted? Known as acquitted conduct sentencing, the practice allows judges to bloat a prison term when sentencing a defendant by punishing them for a separate charge or charges on which a jury deemed them not guilty.
Taxes and Interstate Migration of Seniors
One group that states want to attract with tax cuts are seniors and retirees. Just this year, 10 states cut their taxes on retirement income, which means income from Social Security, defined‐benefit (DB) plans, and defined contribution (DC) plans, such as 401(k)s.
https://www.cato.org/blog/taxes-interstate-migration-seniors