Constitutional Law

• How Do You Feel About Bans on Private Discrimination Now?, Jacob Sullum, February 22, 2012
• Gay Marriage Opponents File Appeal in Prop. 8 Case, Damon W. Root, February 22, 2012
• George Will on the Unconstitutionality of Rent Control, Damon W. Root, February 16, 2012
• Will Gay Marriage Become the Next Roe v. Wade?, Damon W. Root, February 14, 2012
• Montana Supreme Court Ignores Citizens United. Will the U.S. Supreme Court Set It Straight?, Damon W. Root, February 10, 2012
• The Second Amendment Cases the Supreme Court Doesn't Want to Hear, Brian Doherty, February 9, 2012
• Dan Abrams on 'the Media's Shameful, Inexcusable Distortion' of Citizens United, Jacob Sullum, February 8, 2012
• Another Example of How New York Cops Make Their Own Law, Jacob Sullum, February 8, 2012
• Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Future of Gay Marriage, Damon W. Root, February 8, 2012
• Why Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Joke Falls Flat, Jacob Sullum, February 3, 2012
• New Jersey Legislators Get a Chance to Fix the First Amendment Problems With Their Anti-Bullying Law, Jacob Sullum, February 2, 2012
• Meet Roscoe Filburn, the Dead Farmer at the Center of the ObamaCare Case, Damon W. Root, January 30, 2012
• Federal Jury Says Cops Can't Arrest People for Recording Police Encounters, Jacob Sullum, January 30, 2012
• Superstar 1st Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams on Why Free Speech is an All or Nothing Deal, Nick Gillespie, January 28, 2012
• Newt Gingrich vs. the Rule of Law, Jacob Sullum, January 27, 2012
• Originalism for Me But Not for Thee, Damon W. Root, January 25, 2012
• Sonia Sotomayor's Heartening Defense of Privacy, Jacob Sullum, January 24, 2012
• Fourth Circuit Says Government Needs More Proof of Link Between Drug Use and Gun Violence, Brian Doherty, January 24, 2012
• SCOTUS Rules That GPS Tracking Requires a Warrant, Jacob Sullum, January 23, 2012
• What’s the Conservative Case for Upholding ObamaCare?, Damon W. Root, January 20, 2012
• 9th Circuit Sees No Anti-Corruption Rationale for Limiting Contributions to Recall Campaigns, Jacob Sullum, January 20, 2012
• People Are Indeed People, and Their Right to Talk About Politics Is Guaranteed by the First Amendment, Jacob Sullum, January 19, 2012
• Does the Constitution Protect the Unenumerated Right to Economic Liberty?, Damon W. Root, January 17, 2012
• SCOTUS Rulings Highlight Problems With Eyewitnesses, Jacob Sullum, January 13, 2012
• The Rap Against Super PACs, Jacob Sullum, January 12, 2012
• Franky Gets His Day in Court, Jacob Sullum, January 12, 2012
• Can 'Scarcity' Justify the FCC's TV Censorship?, Jacob Sullum, January 11, 2012
• Four Years After Busting a Guy for Recording an Arrest, Boston Police Admit They Should Not Have Done That, Jacob Sullum, January 11, 2012
• Gene Healy on Obama's Illegal Appointment of Richard Cordray, January 10, 2012
• How Big a Friend of Free Speech Is the Roberts Court?, Jacob Sullum, January 9, 2012
• Santorum: Homosexual Acts Are a Crime, but Maybe Not Quite As Bad As Molesting Children, Jacob Sullum, January 9, 2012
• Do Libertarians Care More about States’ Rights or State Abuses of Power?, Damon W. Root, January 9, 2012
• John Yoo Worries Again About the Abuse of Executive Power, Jacob Sullum, January 6, 2012
• Rick Santorum: The 10th Amendment Does Not Mean What It Says, Damon W. Root, January 6, 2012
• Federal Judge Dismisses Arizona Governor's Challenge to Her Own State's Medical Marijuana Law, Jacob Sullum, January 5, 2012
• ObamaCare's Biggest Legal Weakness, Peter Suderman, January 5, 2012
• Obama Promises Not to Use Military Detention for U.S. Citizens—I Think, Jacob Sullum, January 4, 2012
• “A serious constitutional challenge to rent-control and stabilization laws may finally be in the works.”, Damon W. Root, January 4, 2012
• Don't Come Sniffing Around Here Unless You Have a Warrant, Jacob Sullum, January 4, 2012
• Obama Ranks Third in ACLU Grades for Presidential Candidates, Jacob Sullum, January 2, 2012
• The Left-Wing Origins of Newt Gingrich’s Attack on the Courts, Damon W. Root, December 30, 2011
• Ron Paul vs. Everyone Else on Executive Power, Jacob Sullum, December 30, 2011
• Newt Gingrich: Wrong on the Courts, Wrong on Kelo, Damon W. Root, December 29, 2011
• George Will Condemns Gingrich's 'Anti-Conservative' Assault on the Courts, Jacob Sullum, December 22, 2011
• Innocent Man Who Spent 25 Years in Prison Tries to Hold Prosecutor Accountable, Jacob Sullum, December 21, 2011
• Federal Judge in Texas Lets Beer Be Beer, Jacob Sullum, December 20, 2011
• “How did America reach the point where aspiring entrepreneurs...must approach government on bended knee?”, Damon W. Root, December 19, 2011
• Gingrich's Court-Sacking Plan: When Two Out of Three Is Bad, Jacob Sullum, December 19, 2011
• Brewer Stands Up for the 10th Amendment by Asking a Federal Judge to Overturn Her State's Medical Marijuana Law, Jacob Sullum, December 15, 2011
• Today Is Bill of Rights Day! Is It Too Early To Start Drinking?, Damon W. Root, December 15, 2011
• 'The Rule of Law' = Indefinite Detention Powers, Jacob Sullum, December 15, 2011
• Why Wouldn't You Trust the [REDACTED] Word of the [REDACTED] Pakistani Intelligence Service?, Jacob Sullum, December 13, 2011
• When Did Gingrich Stop Supporting a Health Insurance Mandate? Did He Ever?, Jacob Sullum, December 13, 2011
• Predator Drones in Domestic Law Enforcement, Brian Doherty, December 12, 2011
• Congressional Democrats Propose Amending the Constitution to Censor Newspapers, Damon W. Root, December 9, 2011
• NRA Joins ACLU in Urging SCOTUS to Let Victims of an Unconstitutional Gun Search Sue the Cops, Jacob Sullum, December 7, 2011
• SCOTUS Declines to Review Appeals Court Decision Upholding California's Medical Marijuana Law*, Jacob Sullum, December 7, 2011
• New at Reason: A. Barton Hinkle on Conservatives' Abandonment of Constitutional Freedoms, December 6, 2011
• The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy (Against the Constitution), Brian Doherty, December 2, 2011
• Appalling Moments in Newtspeak, Jacob Sullum, December 1, 2011
• 'The Bill of Rights Is Not a Trick', Jacob Sullum, December 1, 2011
• Gun Rights at the Gun Show: The Ongoing Saga of Nordyke v. King, Damon W. Root, November 29, 2011
• L.A. Times: “Criminal defendants find an unlikely friend in Justice Scalia”, Damon W. Root, November 28, 2011
• New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Delusional Support for a Balanced Budget Amendment, November 28, 2011
• California's Assault Weapon Ban Challenged in Federal Court, Brian Doherty, November 21, 2011
• Why Must Prosecutors Be Told to Follow the Law?, Jacob Sullum, November 21, 2011
• The Guy Who Proposed Amending the Constitution to Overturn Citizens United Faults Senators for Trying to Do That, Jacob Sullum, November 17, 2011
• Don't Worry: Congress Can Make You Buy Broccoli, but You Don't Have to Eat It (Maybe), Jacob Sullum, November 17, 2011
• Gay Marriage Moves One Step Closer to the Supreme Court, Damon W. Root, November 17, 2011
• Why Bother Attaching Tracking Devices to Cars When People Voluntarily Carry Them Wherever They Go?, Jacob Sullum, November 16, 2011