Jacob Sullum
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 42
- Latest publication
- Oct 1, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Yahoo
- Top 1K sites
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Judge preliminarily blesses $1.5 million settlement for victims of a tiny town's 'policing for profit' (opens the original)
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In March 2018, Michael Jones began serving as the police chief of Brookside, Alabama, a small town near Birmingham. During the next two years, the city's annual revenue from "fines and forfeitures" rose by 640 percent, from $82,467 to $610,307. The increase since 2017, the year before Jones took over, was even bigger: about 1,100 percent. By 2020, fines and forfeitures accounted for nearly half of Brookside's annual revenue. But Jones thought he could do even better. While "a 600% increase" was
The FDA promises to streamline the dauntingly complex rules for approving nicotine products (opens the original)
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced that it is reevaluating its approach to approving nicotine products such as vapes and pouches. The Wall Street Journal reports that FDA officials want to "smooth the way for more tobacco products such as flavored vapes to legally enter the market by changing the rules to speed up the authorization process." That is good news for manufacturers of nicotine products, who for years have struggled with regulatory bottlenecks, burdensome requi
The 5th Circuit rejects qualified immunity for cops who searched a driver after a bogus traffic stop (opens the original)
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Around 5 p.m. on a Wednesday in June 2022, Mario Rosales was driving his red Mustang on Jackson Street in Alexandria, Louisiana, waiting to turn left onto Dorchester Drive, when a police SUV pulled up behind him. After the traffic light turned green and Rosales made his turn, Officers Samuel Terrell and Jim Lewis activated their lights and pulled him over. The officers later claimed Rosales had "failed to signal" his turn. But as dashcam video showed, that was not true: The Mustang's left-turn s
How murdering suspected drug dealers became the new normal (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump was excited about a new military operation. "Earlier this morning," he announced on the afternoon of September 2, 2025, "U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility." That attack should "serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America," he said. "BEWARE! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!!!!!!" Those 11 excla
An Iowa judge rejects Trump's unconstitutional attempt to recover damages for 'fake news' (opens the original)
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On Wednesday, an Iowa judge dismissed a lawsuit in which President Donald Trump preposterously claimed that The Des Moines Register committed consumer fraud when it published poll results he did not like prior to the 2024 election. Those surprising results, which gave Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, a lead in Iowa, turned out to be far off the mark. But according to Trump, that forecast was not only embarrassing but also illegal. Trump's lawsuit, which he first filed in Decem
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