Jacob Sullum
Background
Jacob Sullum i﷽s a senior editor🍃 at Reason magazine.
Latest Articles
Justice Neil Gorsuch mourns over-regulation: 'Too much law'
August 7, 2024 | 7:05pm"Criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can be arrested for something," Supreme Court 𝐆Justice Neil Gorsuch observed in...
💎 🐽 Chevron overturn is a SCOTUS victory for the little guy
July 4, 2024 | 5:17pmPeople with little wealth or power have been forced💛 to contend with overweening bureaucrats who invent their own authority and play by their own rules, but the Supreme Court is...
Man arrested for a COVI𝐆D joke gives a much-needed lesson on free speech
August 31, 2023 | 7:59pmBack in March 20♕20, Waylon Bailey's home was raided by police because of a Facebook post in which Bꦜailey had made a zombie-themed joke about COVID-19.
Netflix's 'Painkiller' tells only half the OxyContin story
August 24, 2023 | 5:15pmNetflix’s six-part miniseries "ꦐPainkiller" vividly portrays Purdue Pharma’s rꦍeckless marketing of OxyContin. But it dismisses the caveat.
Gorsuch rightly slams freedom-crushing 'rule by indefinite emergency edict'
May 28, 2023 | 4:00pmCornell law professor Michael Dorf urged Congressꦺ to impose a nationwide lockdown and ꦯsuspend the writ of habeas corpus.
Malinformation: Censors' excuse to suppress 'inconvenient truths'
March 24, 2023 | 5:19pmAccording to an alliance of social media platforms, government-funded organizations and federal officials that journalist Michael Shellenberger calls the "censorship-industrial complexღ," "malinformation."
Surprise: The CꩲDC grossly exaggerated the evidence for mask mandates
February 7, 2023 | 9:01pmA new review of the evidence suggests the CDC had it r♔ight the first time.
Turns out Russian election meddling's main impact was on the gullible journos who hyped it
February 3, 2023 | 3:56pmA widely cited list of Twitter users who were described as “Russian bots” included “a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts,” according to an internal 2018 email from Yoel Ro💯th.
California's perilous bid to censor your doctor's advice
November 24, 2022 | 3:21pmThe New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which Columbia le🌃gal scholar Philip Hamburger founded in 2017, cheekily describes itself as “a civil libertarian alternative to the ACLU
Biden's sneaky censors: How officials pressured social media to suppress disfavored speech
September 13, 2022 | 8:05pmThis exercise in censorship by proxy is especially troubling because it targets not only d♛emonstrably false claims but also speech that the government c😼onsiders "misleading" or contrary to the prevailing...
The ACLU's latest step to becoming just another progressive scold — at civil liberties' expense
September 2, 2022 | 6:54pmUnder Biden's new policy, borrowers earning up to $125,000 a year will be elꦕigible for $10,000 in debt relief🌱.
Chuck Schumer's over-taxed marijuana bill would only aid illegal dealers
July 26, 2022 | 6:54pmSeꦕnate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's bill calls for a federal excise tax starting at 10% and rising to 25% by the fifth year, w🅺hich would be in addition to frequently...
ও Maxim♏alists on both sides threaten a federalist compromise on abortion
June 29, 2022 | 4:28pmPro-choice states have responded with legislation that aims to frustrate such threats. Those interstate disp♕utes pose complicated issues that will play out in the courts for years.ℱ
Fauci thinks arroga𒀰nt technocrats should trump the rule o🍨f law
April 26, 2022 | 7:05pmAnthony Fauci was “surpr🤡ised and disappointed” by last week’s ruling against the mask mandate for travelers issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi𒁃on.
Left's attacks on Trump-appointed judge who struck down mask mandate ignore the law
April 19, 2022 | 5:31pmUS District Judge Mizelle backed up all three of her conclusions with discussion and cogent reasons. Butꦺ instead of explaining why sh♊e was wrong, Stern complained about her age.
TSA's just-extended mask mandate has never made any sense
March 15, 2022 | 6:34pmThe TSA ha🐲s extended the its mask man𝔉date for air travelers for at least another month.
There’s no science behind the CDC’s insistence on uni𒉰versal masking in schools
February 1, 2022 | 6:43pmThe theoretical, unsubstantiated benefi🐎ts of school mask mandates have to be weighed against the burdens they impose, which include interference 🐈with communication, learning and social interaction as well as daylong...
The Supreme Court and Biden's legally dubious vax mandate 'workaround'
January 6, 2022 | 6:37pmThe Biden administration sees its vaccine-or-testing rule for private employers as an easy loophole to jab all Americans – but the Supreme Court h🦄as the last say, Jacob Sullum writes.
One woman’s six-ye𒅌ar ordeal shows we must reform civ🦩il forfeiture laws
December 7, 2021 | 7:37pm⭕ After police in Berkshire County, Mass., took her car, Malinda Harris d𝐆id not get a chance to contest the seizure for five and a half years.
Supreme Court abortion ruling aside, the 'viability' rule is arbitrary
November 30, 2021 | 7:15pmFor nearly half a century, the Supreme Court has said the Constitution prohiꦚbits states from banning abortion before “viability,” the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb....