The State Is Spying on You Right Now. Where's the Outrage?
Government spying is so common today that it is almost the new normal. Yet government spying is not normal to the Constitution.
Government spying is so common today that it is almost the new normal. Yet government spying is not normal to the Constitution.
An anti-gambling activist testifies that a protectionist bill is needed to guarantee equal protection.
Obama is on his way to circumventing checks and balances with more regularity than any president in history.
A reply to National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru.
The fight over judicial deference divides libertarians and conservatives.
There's nothing secretive about this well-known conservative legal organization.
ACLU says Philadelphia police routinely harass and arrest people like Coulter Loeb for photographing them.
When the president effectively writes the laws, Congress is effectively neutered.
Sen. Paul takes sides in a libertarian-conservative battle over SCOTUS and the Constitution.
He can't win this fight, but he could win primary votes.
If our rights come from the government, not within, then they are not rights, but permission slips.
Major victory for Second Amendment proponents.
The curiously circumscribed nature of the suicide right recognized by Canada's Supreme Court
The Constitution promises uncompromising protection of liberty.
The U.S. Constitution may not be perfect, but a new constitutional convention will probably make it worse.
Bill protects privacy from unconstitutional search and seizure.
Maybe Congress can't "turn back the clock" on the EPA's lawless Clean Power Plan, but the courts may well do so.
The collapse of pot prohibition divides Republicans and exposes fair-weather federalists.
Hidden in the Cromnibus was a clause allowing the NSA to gather your private data and share it with law enforcement and foreign governments.
Obama's immigration order does not undermine the rule of law-but the expansion of federal criminal law does.
Deference to elected majorities was a Progressive ideal long before modern conservatives picked up the baton.
A presidential action may be lawful at the same time that it is unconstitutional.
Much of the political class of the founding generation, unlike our own, viewed the Constitution as restraining, not unleashing, the government.
Private companies are fighting the federal government in court over the Patriot Act's "National Security Letters," which violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
Americans right and left tend to give up on the Constitution whenever it gets in the way of policies they like.
Two Texas laws illustrate a politically poisonous legislative habit.
The NSA and Justice Department go after suspects in crimes unrelated to national security using an unlawful, deceptive practice called "parallel reconstruction."
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