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Jacob Sullum
Background
Jacob Sullum is 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 Justice 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 COVID joke gives a much-needed lesson on free speech
August 31, 2023 | 7:59pmBack in March 2020, Waylon Bailey's home was raided by police because of a Facebook post in which Bailey 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 "Painkiller" vividly portrays Purdue Pharma’s reckless 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 Congress to impose a nationwide lockdown and suspend 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 complex," "malinformation."
Surprise: The CDC grossly exaggerated the evidence for mask mandates
February 7, 2023 | 9:01pmA new review of the evidence suggests the CDC had it right 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 Roth.
California's perilous bid to censor your doctor's advice
November 24, 2022 | 3:21pmThe New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which Columbia legal 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 demonstrably false claims but also speech that the government considers "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 eligible for $10,000 in debt relief.
Chuck Schumer's over-taxed marijuana bill would only aid illegal dealers
July 26, 2022 | 6:54pmSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's bill calls for a federal excise tax starting at 10% and rising to 25% by the fifth year, which would be in addition to frequently...
Maximalists 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 disputes pose complicated issues that will play out in the courts for years.
Fauci thinks arrogant technocrats should trump the rule of law
April 26, 2022 | 7:05pmAnthony Fauci was “surprised and disappointed” by last week’s ruling against the mask mandate for travelers issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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. But instead of explaining why she was wrong, Stern complained about her age.
TSA's just-extended mask mandate has never made any sense
March 15, 2022 | 6:34pmThe TSA has extended the its mask mandate for air travelers for at least another month.
There’s no science behind the CDC’s insistence on universal masking in schools
February 1, 2022 | 6:43pmThe theoretical, unsubstantiated benefits 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 has the last say, Jacob Sullum writes.
One woman’s six-year ordeal shows we must reform civil forfeiture laws
December 7, 2021 | 7:37pmAfter police in Berkshire County, Mass., took her car, Malinda Harris did 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 prohibits states from banning abortion before “viability,” the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb....