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Earlier this month, a viral post on X claimed that the NFL would start using facial recognition technology (FRT) "to verify the identity of people entering [each] stadium." According to the rumor, the league had partnered with Wicket, a facial recognition software company, and would soon begin its fan surveillance program. Wicket's chief operating officer, Jeff Boehm, told Reason in a statement that the company's FRT technology was being used to verify the identity of "credential holders seeking access to restricted areas of the stadium, not for ticket holders." Boehm went on to say there were...
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I spent some time last week at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) summit, which attracts state lawmakers and legislative staff from around the country and was held this year in Louisville, Kentucky. The event's expo hall was packed with hundreds of booths, largely featuring the sorts of associations, businesses, and nonprofits you might expect to be trying to influence state policy. Perhaps not as expected was a sex worker rights group. Not as expected, that is, if you don't know anything about Decriminalize Sex Work (DSW). Since its founding in 2018, the organization has bee...
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On an early morning in 2017, Curtrina Martin inadvertently attended a pyrotechnic exhibit she compares to the Fourth of July. Except it was October, and it was inside her home in Georgia. The source was considerably less joyful. The FBI detonated a flash grenade in the house and ripped the door from its hinges in a raid to arrest a man, Joseph Riley, accused of gang activity, who lived in a different house approximately one block over. The agents would not realize their mistake until after they made their way into Martin's bedroom, where they found her and her then-fiancé, Hilliard Toi Cliatt,...
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There's nothing new in government officials complaining about judges standing in the way of schemes intended to impose some vision of the good life on the country but found to run afoul of the Constitution and the law. And with Supreme Court popularity low among Democrats, it's an opportune time for President Joe Biden to not only criticize justices but propose a plan for "reforming" the court in ways that might also give his allies greater control over the body. It's undoubtedly a political move—and one that invites a warning from Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch. 'Be Careful'Asked this week by...
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Democrats in Congress have reintroduced a bill that would revive the ability to sue federal law enforcement officers for constitutional violations like excessive force, following a series of Supreme Court decisions that have made it practically impossible to do so. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D–R.I.) and Reps. Hank Johnson (D–Ga.) and Jamie Raskin (D–Md.) reintroduced the Bivens Act in the Senate and House, respectively, this week. The legislation would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1871—a federal statute that allows people to sue the government for civil rights violations—to include federal offi...
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President Joe Biden's new op-ed in The Washington Post makes the bold argument that, following a constitutional amendment to reverse a recent Supreme Court decision, Congress should pass both Supreme Court term limits and an ethics code to "restore the public's faith in the judicial system." According to Biden, the Court's "extreme" decisions and ethical crisis require immediate action. Looking at the last Supreme Court term, none of this is true. The Court's opinions were nuanced and largely unanimous, and there are no credible allegations of vote-buying. If Biden wants to restore faith in th...
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Inmates in Texas state prisons are being "cooked alive" by scorching temperatures in facilities without air conditioning, a new investigation claims. Documents obtained by The Texas Newsroom, a public radio collaboration of multiple Texas stations, showed that even as inmates died with body temperatures nearing 107 degrees, officials have continued to blame their deaths on causes other than extreme heat. In 2023, a Texas prisoner filed a lawsuit challenging the state's refusal to adequately control heat levels. The suit alleged that the state was violating its own laws surrounding prison tempe...
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This week's featured article is "Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything'" by Jacob Sullum. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything' appeared first on Reason.com.
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At the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Tuesday night, speakers drilled the Biden administration on its handling of immigration and the border, linking current migration trends to increased crime and disorder across the country. The night's official theme was "Make America Safe Again," but the programming was light on specific ideas about how to do that. Instead, there were a lot of individual lurid tales of migrant crime. "Americans are dying, murdered, assaulted, raped by illegal immigrants that the Democrats have released," Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) argued. Former South Carolina Gov. N...
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Two years after Harvard gave him the boot and three years before Congress banned LSD, Timothy Leary set out on a road trip from Millbrook, New York, in a rented station wagon. The 45-year-old psychologist and psychedelic enthusiast was accompanied by his girlfriend, Rosemary Woodruff, and his two teenaged children, Susan and Jack. They had planned a month-long family vacation in Yucatan, Mexico, after which Leary and Woodruff would stay behind to work on his newly commissioned autobiography. Leary and his companions arrived in Laredo, Texas, on the evening of December 22, 1965, and crossed the...
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