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Under English common law, citizenship was determined by where one was born. That principle, which was known as “jus soli” or “law of the soil,” became the norm throughout the…
Jacob Sullum explains at Reason’s “Hit and Run” blog why critics are wrong to blast the American Civil Liberties Union for its stance on free speech. In the wake of…
Two and a half years ago, in my very first Legal Update, I discussed then Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to curtail his agency’s controversial “adoptions” program. Under the program,…
Jacob Sullum explains at Reason.com why President Trump’s comments about civil asset forfeiture should cause concerns. Trump’s knee-jerk support for civil asset forfeiture is troubling, especially in light of a…
Reason.com’s Jacob Sullum points out what could, from a free market perspective, be the most important result of Monday’s Iowa Caucus–a candidate that favors the elimination of ethanol subsidies and…
View in your browser. The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was introduced this month by a bi-partisan group of US Senators that includes Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Richard Durbin…
Jacob Sullum isn’t buying Obama’s ho-hum attitude in this Reason article.
Leave it to National Review humorist Mark Steyn to find a way to tie New York City’s nanny-in-chief — Mayor Michael Bloomberg — to one of the key challenges Alexis…
View in your browser. So last week in Oklahoma at a traffic stop, police noticed a chemical smell, a passenger took off running, and in the scuffle with police, the…
That’s what Jacob Sullum calls Obama’s budget in this column. Each year, Obama says that the federal government is going to “cut the deficit.” Each year, the gusher of spending…
The state is congratulating itself on its new pseudoephedrine tracking system that took effect this year. Why, it was working even before it began! And the measure of its effectiveness…
In his column today, Jacob Sullum calls Newt Gingrich a profligate authoritarian. I think the charge sticks. Newt is not the person who will ratchet down the dangerous degree of…