Jacob Sullum

RT @nickgillespie: “Legalize All Drugs” For the affirmative: @jacobsullum and @billybinion For the negative:  @CharlesFLehman and @Rafa_M…

Briefs supporting Trump's nullification of birthright citizenship offer a highly implausible take on the Supreme Court's reading of the 14th Amendment in the 1898 case United States v. Wong Kim Ark. https://t.co/DNYbuwMniX

A new survey suggests that illicit opioid use in the U.S. is much more common than the government's numbers indicate. The prevalence of past-year fentanyl use was 25 times higher than the estimate generated by a government-sponsored survey. https://t.co/heqozM5q8q

Elon Musk discovers that serious spending cuts are "really difficult." Stepping away from DOGE, he acknowledges the need for hard choices and congressional action. https://t.co/zxULwUgS7p

A declassified National Intelligence Council memo casts further doubt on Trump's nonsensical definition of "alien enemies." It contradicts his claim that Tren de Aragua is "closely aligned with" the Venezuelan government and acts at its "direction." https://t.co/ksWWjiJHME

Pam Bondi's absurd claim that the Trump administration prevented 258 million fentanyl deaths epitomizes the illogic of the war on drugs. https://t.co/eB3hIkzJe2

Trump's tattoo confusion raises the question: If he were senile, how would we know? https://t.co/O51huANYeQ

Rumeysa Ozturk's op-ed is still the only public justification for her arrest and deportation. Trump and Rubio's intolerance of dissenting opinions is weakness masquerading as strength. https://t.co/s0fYY5LqjP

Trump's sweeping tariffs, which have no basis in the statute he cites, usurp the tax power that the Constitution assigns to Congress. https://t.co/K7o7tb912c

A federal judge just greenlit a lawsuit arguing that Florida's ban on lab-grown meat amounts to unconstitutional protectionism. https://t.co/gEQuGtpKo1

Trump's understanding of due process is just as farcical as his definition of "alien enemies." A new ACLU lawsuit argues that the government has failed to give alleged gang members the "notice" required by a Supreme Court order. https://t.co/o0G2288Aco

RT @nickgillespie: ' @RachelBarkow argues...that these key cases were wrongly decided from the originalist perspective embraced by the curr…

RT @samrstaley: Excellent overview by @jacobsullum @reason of why the Trump Administration's retribution against disfavored law firms is d…

By openly retaliating against disfavored law firms, Trump is attacking the First Amendment and the right to counsel. Two law firms that chose to fight rather than capitulate seem likely to win permanent injunctions against his orders. https://t.co/wesgT5H6PG

Trump, who claims to be "restoring freedom of speech," has launched a multifaceted crusade against First Amendment rights. https://t.co/waKUyOKUSF

The Trump administration is using antisemitism as an excuse to impose its vision of higher education on Harvard. The government's demands, Harvard argues, amount to "unconstitutional conditions" on federal funding. https://t.co/POi1WmYd9s

Portraying journalism as consumer fraud, Trump's lawyers say covering a presidential poll was not "news reporting," conflate fraud with defamation, misconstrue the commercial speech doctrine, and claim false speech is not constitutionally protected. https://t.co/EPh8UN0juP