Reason Foundation
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Voters’ Guide to the 2020 Georgia Ballot Initiatives
Examining Georgia's two statewide ballot propositions.
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Voters’ Guide to the 2020 Michigan Ballot Initiatives
Examining Michigan's statewide ballot proposals.
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Study: States Can Lease Toll Roads to Fund Other Infrastructure, Pay Off Debt
The study finds the middle-range of the net proceeds for these systems varies from $19 billion for the Illinois Tollway and $17 billion for the New Jersey Turnpike to just over $1 billion for the Kansas Turnpike.
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How the Ballot Language Used For California Initiatives Impacts Fairness
Simply abiding by all the legal requirements already on the books would help ensure we have honest and fair elections with results that reflect the will of the people.
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Amicus Brief: Bridge Aina Le‘a, LLC v. State of Hawaii Land Use Commission
This court should grant the petition for certiorari to safeguard the landowner’s fundamental right to a jury’s determination of the effect of the government’s taking and to reaffirm the Seventh Amendment guarantee of right to trial by jury.
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Amicus Brief: CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service
"This court should reverse the decision below and clarify that the AIA does not bar pre-enforcement challenges to the validity of tax rules under the APA."
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A Better Alternative to More Coronavirus Stimulus Spending and Loan Programs
Tax-exempt CoVictory Bonds and Loans could rally everyone —from mom and pop shops to big institutional investors— to privately finance a victory over the coronavirus recession.
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Amicus Brief: American Society of Journalists v. Xavier Becerra
This court should reverse the district court, join its sister circuits in affirming that Reed is the law of the land, and grant journalists their day in court.
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Amicus Brief: Higginson v. Becerra
The right to vote, like the rights guaranteed by the Equal Protection Clause, is an individual right. Vote dilution claims, however, treat people simply as members of their racial group.
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Amicus Brief: Jessop v. City of Fresno
"Now, not only can officials seize and retain personal property with little judicial oversight under the guise of civil asset forfeiture; law enforcement also can outright steal personal property for their own use with impunity and without fear of civil liability. "
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Amicus Brief: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
Harvard’s discrimination against Asian American applicants prolongs a long history of discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States. The judgment of the district court should be reversed.
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Amicus Brief: West v. Winfield
The reasoning embraced by the Ninth and Second Circuits—requiring a Section 1983 plaintiff to point to a decided case with identical, or nearly so, factual allegations in order to defeat qualified immunity—sets an impossible standard
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Amicus Brief: Torres v. Madrid
This Court should reverse the Tenth Circuit and return uniformity and predictability to the Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
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Amicus Brief: Fleck v. Wetch
The case warrants this Court’s review because many state and local governments are refusing to comply with Janus’ waiver requirement.
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Amicus Brief: Salgado v. United States
Because lower courts have charted a course around CAFRA’s fee-shifting provision, inefficient and unmeritorious civil asset forfeiture actions are not adequately deterred.
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Amicus Brief: Shaffer v. Pennsylvania
This Court should grant the petition for a writ of certiorari to clarify the applicability — if any — of the “private search” doctrine to today’s digital world.
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Amicus Brief: Valent v. Commissioner of Social Security
The Supreme Court should take this case to resolve the question of what tools the lower courts must employ in a search for the meaning of a statute.
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Amicus Brief: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
The Supreme Court should act to protect religiously neutral student-aid programs from lower court rulings and state government actions that run afoul of the federal constitution.
