Constitution

Politics

Looking for Limits

The power to mandate health insurance is the power to mandate almost anything.

Jacob Sullum | 8.17.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

After Striking the Mandate, Should the 11th Circuit Have Allowed the Rest of ObamaCare to Stand?

Peter Suderman | 8.16.2011 11:00 AM

Politics

ObamaCare, the Mandate, and the Limits of Congressional Power Under the Commerce Clause

Peter Suderman | 8.15.2011 12:40 PM

Politics

Appeals Court Strikes Down ObamaCare's Individual Mandate, Calls It "a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority."

Peter Suderman | 8.12.2011 1:35 PM

Politics

Will Medical Marijuana Be the Next Exception to Rick Perry's Federalism?

Jacob Sullum | 8.9.2011 2:46 PM

Politics

Gov. Chris Christie Isn't Afraid of Sharia

Shikha Dalmia | 8.9.2011 11:19 AM

Politics

Judge Rejects Florida's Drug Exception to Due Process

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2011 12:06 PM

Politics

Obama's Top Four Power Grabs

The president stretches executive power to expand the warfare state and the regulatory state.

Shikha Dalmia | 8.2.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Texas Appeals Court Rejects Developer's Defamation Claims

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2011 4:10 PM

Politics

If at First You Don't Get a Prison Sentence, Try, Try Again

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2011 4:31 PM

Politics

Death to the Living Constitution

Can "progressive originalism" become the Next Big Thing on the legal left?

Damon Root | 7.21.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

California Court Says Child Porn Requires Real Children

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 3:56 PM

Politics

Arkansas Town Bans Organizations Lest They Cause 'Discourse'

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 2:46 PM

Politics

If You Want to Keep Your Baby, Steer Clear of the Pasta Salad

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 2:11 PM

Politics

8th Circuit Says St. Louis Must Tolerate Conspicuous Criticism

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2011 3:21 PM

Politics

Gun Rights and the 10th Amendment

Damon Root | 7.14.2011 10:13 AM

Politics

Kody Brown and His Four "Wives"

Do anti-polygamy laws violate the Constitution?

Steve Chapman | 7.14.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

McConnell: I Don't Know Constitution Any Better Than Obama Does

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.12.2011 10:14 PM

Politics

Justice Stephen Breyer's Hostility to Individual Rights

Damon Root | 7.12.2011 3:07 PM

Politics

Samuel Alito, Burkean Conservative?

Damon Root | 7.11.2011 5:49 PM

Politics

Jobs Are the New Terrorism

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.6.2011 7:37 PM

Politics

The Week of Lying Dangerously

Obama displays a Clintonian desire to have things both ways.

Jacob Sullum | 7.6.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Judges Agree You Don't Have To Do Anything In Order to Be Engaged in Activity

Peter Suderman | 6.30.2011 3:31 PM

Politics

A 'Compelling Interest' to Restrict Video Games Requires More Than Pediatricians' Prejudices

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2011 12:01 PM

Politics

Big Daddy

The government should let parents regulate their children's entertainment.

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Clarence Thomas, the First Amendment, and "Originalism at the Wrong Time"

Damon Root | 6.28.2011 7:50 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Will Review the FCC's 'Indecency' Ban

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 1:06 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Overturns California Ban on Selling Violent Video Games to Minors

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 10:45 AM

Politics

Rick Scott Scales Back His Urine Demands

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2011 11:12 AM

Politics

Reason.tv: All The President's Wars - How Foreign Policy Became One Man's Prerogative

Zach Weissmueller | 6.22.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Allows 10th Amendment Challenge to Chemical Weapons Conviction

Jacob Sullum | 6.20.2011 10:54 AM

Politics

A Suicide Pact

Can the U.S. afford the Bill of Rights?

A. Barton Hinkle | 6.17.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Fighting the Scourge of Drug-Impaired Scrapbooking

Jacob Sullum | 6.15.2011 1:29 PM

Politics

Is ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion Unconstitutional?

Peter Suderman | 6.9.2011 11:45 AM

Politics

The First Step to Winning "the War on Photography" is to Know Your Rights

Nick Gillespie | 6.7.2011 8:39 AM

Politics

WSJ Pooh-Poohs "Kucinich Republicans" & Other Congressfolks Who Have Read the Constitution…

Nick Gillespie | 6.6.2011 8:28 AM

Politics

Toothless Congress Gripes About Lawless War

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.3.2011 5:47 PM

Politics

Debating Federally Funded School Lunches on Federally Funded Radio

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2011 10:47 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Says Pretending to Detain People As Material Witnesses Is Constitutional

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2011 1:45 PM

Politics

Rick Scott's Urine Fetish

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2011 12:25 PM

Politics

Poll: 65% of Americans Support Balanced Budget Amendment

Matt Welch | 5.27.2011 9:32 AM

Politics

Go Ahead and Mess With Texas; It's Run by Pussies

Jacob Sullum | 5.26.2011 12:24 PM

Politics

Libya: NATO Takes Lead, Americans Do 65% of Work

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.26.2011 11:38 AM

Politics

Reason Writers on Russia Today: Matt Welch Talks Rand Paul and More on The Alyona Show

Reason Staff | 5.26.2011 11:27 AM

Politics

Feds Threaten No-Fly Zone Over Texas

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 1:46 PM