Constitution

Politics

Buyers Beware

Upholding the health insurance mandate would encourage endless meddling in our spending decisions.

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

New York Times Logic: Someone in a Class Did Something Bad with a Gun. No One in that Class Should Have a Gun.

Brian Doherty | 11.15.2011 8:43 PM

Politics

Is Partisanship Responsible for the Success of Constitutional Challenges to ObamaCare?

Peter Suderman | 11.15.2011 5:19 PM

Politics

What If the Supreme Court Decided ObamaCare in Favor of the Insurance Industry?

Peter Suderman | 11.15.2011 10:32 AM

Politics

John Paul Stevens: Kelo Was No Big Deal

Damon Root | 11.14.2011 1:28 PM

Politics

It's Official: The Supreme Court Will Hear Challenges to ObamaCare

Peter Suderman | 11.14.2011 10:33 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Mulls Warrantless GPS Tracking

Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2011 1:33 PM

Politics

How Many Brady Violations Does It Take to Make a Pattern?

Jacob Sullum | 11.8.2011 5:52 PM

Politics

DC Circuit Judge Acknowledges "Discomfort" With ObamaCare's Individual Mandate, Rules in its Favor Anyway

Peter Suderman | 11.8.2011 2:35 PM

Politics

Federal Judge Blocks New Cigarette Warning Labels

Jacob Sullum | 11.7.2011 3:48 PM

Politics

John Paul Stevens' Faint-Hearted Liberalism

The retired justice's new memoir reveals an uneasy relationship with the Bill of Rights.

Damon Root | 10.26.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Can ObamaCare Survive Without a Mandate?

Peter Suderman | 10.26.2011 3:45 PM

Politics

Sacking the Courts

Perry and Gingrich recklessly disregard the importance of judicial review.

Jacob Sullum | 10.26.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

"Strictly obeying the original meaning of the Constitution can lead Justice Thomas to liberal results"

Damon Root | 10.24.2011 5:39 PM

Politics

Should Occupy Wall Street Occupy the Constitution?

Damon Root | 10.20.2011 12:14 PM

Politics

Did I Ever Tell You About My Medal of Honor?

Jacob Sullum | 10.19.2011 5:40 PM

Politics

Play Spot the Constitutional Functions!

Jacob Sullum | 10.19.2011 11:16 AM

Politics

The Inalienable Right to a Loud Car Stereo?

Damon Root | 10.18.2011 11:56 AM

Politics

Even the Ignored Amendments Can Be Violated in a Horrible Fashion

Lucy Steigerwald | 10.18.2011 11:28 AM

Politics

"The 14th Amendment…was a promise to the people of this country of limited government and respect for individual rights."

Damon Root | 10.13.2011 4:13 PM

Politics

Jerry Brown Lets Police Rummage Suspects' Mobile Phones Without a Warrant

Jacob Sullum | 10.11.2011 5:29 PM

Politics

Wait—There's a Problem With Strip-Searching Students?

Jacob Sullum | 10.6.2011 5:28 PM

Politics

'Welcome to the Upside-Down World of Civil Forfeiture'

Jacob Sullum | 10.6.2011 4:22 PM

Politics

The Fine Line Between Tolerating and Authorizing Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Jacob Sullum | 10.6.2011 2:11 PM

Politics

Dueling Tests Yield Conflicting Conclusions About the District of Columbia's Gun Controls

Jacob Sullum | 10.5.2011 4:25 PM

Politics

Warrantless GPS Tracking, Union Dues, and Fleeting Expletives: The Supreme Court Suits Up for Another Term

Damon Root | 10.3.2011 9:25 AM

Politics

Freedom of the Press Belongs to Everyone

Jacob Sullum | 9.28.2011 11:34 AM

Politics

Off the Record

The Illinois Eavesdropping Act shields public officials from public scrutiny.

Jacob Sullum | 9.28.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Administration Decision Clears the Way For a Summer 2012 Supreme Court Ruling on ObamaCare's Individual Mandate

Peter Suderman | 9.27.2011 11:26 AM

Politics

Do Cops Need a Warrant to Track Down Your Cell Phone?

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 4:48 PM

Politics

Social Security and the Constitution

Damon Root | 9.22.2011 2:02 PM

Politics

San Juan Capistrano Fines Family for Reading Bible without Permit

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.21.2011 10:31 PM

Politics

Judge Rejects Eavesdropping Charges for Recording Police

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2011 4:17 PM

Politics

Connecticut Supreme Court Justice to Susette Kelo: "I'm Sorry"

Damon Root | 9.19.2011 1:29 PM

Politics

Constitution Day and the Continued Tenther Terror

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.16.2011 12:22 PM

Politics

Judge Posner Fears 'Snooping Around by Reporters and Bloggers' If People Are Allowed to Record the Police

Jacob Sullum | 9.14.2011 6:47 PM

Politics

Unenumerated Rights and the 14th Amendment

Damon Root | 9.14.2011 4:23 PM

Politics

Lochner Isn't a Dirty Word

Correcting the cartoonish vilification of a libertarian Supreme Court decision

Damon Root | 9.14.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Judges Don't Need Roe to Overturn Abortion Laws

Jacob Sullum | 9.7.2011 11:55 AM

Politics

Your Lying Eyes

How fallible memories send innocent people to prison

Jacob Sullum | 8.31.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Originalism vs. Judicial Restraint

Damon Root | 8.30.2011 11:10 AM

Politics

Looking for Consistency in Rick Perry's Federalism

Jacob Sullum | 8.26.2011 2:03 PM

Politics

Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on ObamaCare's Mandate: Sure It's Unconstitutional, But Is That Really Such a Big Deal?

Peter Suderman | 8.25.2011 2:18 PM

Politics

Anne-Marie Slaughter's End Zone Dancing and Situational Constitutionalism*

Matt Welch | 8.25.2011 12:29 PM

Politics

Liberating Libya

Presidential presumption and congressional cowardice lift the limits on military intervention.

Jacob Sullum | 8.24.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Airport Security vs. The Constitution

Government critics deserve their day in court.

A. Barton Hinkle | 8.19.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Strict Scrutiny

ObamaCare and the long slow death of conservative judicial restraint

Damon Root | 8.18.2011 12:00 PM