With the Trump Arraignment, Americans Are Seeing the Power of the Local Prosecutor

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you can view it in a browser here. The latest news and analysis from Reason.com Wednesday, April 5, 2023   With the Trump Arraignment, Americans Are Seeing the Power of the Local Prosecutor Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump has put the once-obscure position of district attorney into the national spotlight. By C.J. Ciaramella Dump the Politicized Case Against Trump and Make Way for Serious Investigations The New York charges look weak, and Americans think they’re politically motivated. By J.D. Tuccille Trump's New York Indictment Turns One Hush Payment Into 34 Felonies Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime. By Jacob Sullum Trump's Indictment Illustrates How the Wackos Have Hijacked Politics From prosecutor Alvin Bragg to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, it seems like everyone connected to the Trump indictment took crazy pills. By Eric Boehm Do 'More Guns Lead To More Deaths'? No, and that good news needs to be front and center in all discussions of gun control, especially after school shootings. By Nick Gillespie Restraining Orders Do Not Prove That People Are 'Dangerous' The Biden administration is defending a federal law that disarms Americans based on "boilerplate language" in orders that judges routinely grant. By Jacob Sullum He Got 30 Years for Murder After a Cop Killed His Friend Lakeith Smith's case epitomizes the issues with the "felony murder" doctrine. By Billy Binion I Gave Myself Severe Diarrhea for Science. Don't Tax Me for It. Eliminating taxation on compensation for being a human guinea pig is just good public policy. By Jake Eberts Progressive-Backed Candidate Wins Seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court Abortion and gerrymandering are likely to be on the court's docket in the near future, and Janet Protasiewicz ran unabashedly to the left on both issues. Is this the best way to decide contentious topics? By Joe Lancaster The First 'Missing Middle' Reform of the Year Has Passed. Will It Get Housing Built? Arlington's successful passage of a modest missing middle housing reform bill after an intense debate raises the question of whether YIMBY politics can practically fix the problems it sets out to address. By Christian Britschgi Kerry Howley: A Journey Through the Deep State The Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs author and former Reason staffer reports back from post-privacy America. By Nick Gillespie Image credit: Mayer / MEGA / Newscom/JMNEW2/Newscom Donate Reason Foundation 5737 Mesmer Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90230, USA Privacy Policy   Manage Your Preferences Unsubscribe