Constitution

Politics

The Goodwin Liu Hearings, Take Two

Damon Root | 3.3.2011 10:55 AM

Politics

Does Federal Law Trump an Oath to the Constitution?

Obama's decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act follows conservative precedent.

Damon Root | 3.2.2011 4:30 PM

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Why Is Scalia So Eager to Let a Murderer Off on a Technicality?

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2011 1:44 PM

Politics

More on Obama, Gay Marriage, and Executive Power

Damon Root | 2.25.2011 9:55 AM

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If Obama Is Right, How Can State Bans on Gay Marriage Be Constitutional?

Jacob Sullum | 2.24.2011 11:38 AM

Politics

A Case That Belonged on Maury, Not in Federal Court

Jacob Sullum | 2.23.2011 12:28 PM

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Don't Think Of a Health Insurance Mandate? U.S. District Judge Rules that Congress Can Regulate "Mental Activity."

Peter Suderman | 2.23.2011 12:06 PM

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Pennsylvania Railroad

In the Keystone State's juvenile justice scandal, money changed everything.

Jacob Sullum | 2.23.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

The Mind of a Police Dog

How misconceptions about dogs can lead to abuse of humans

Radley Balko | 2.21.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Would 'I ? the Redevelopment Authority' Get the Same Treatment?

Jacob Sullum | 2.18.2011 5:52 PM

Politics

The 10th Amendment Lives! (Maybe)

Brian Doherty | 2.18.2011 1:32 PM

Politics

D.C.'s 'Well-Armed' Well-to-Do Residents Are 99% Unarmed

Jacob Sullum | 2.17.2011 4:19 PM

Politics

About That Constitution

Radley Balko | 2.17.2011 9:59 AM

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The Man's Best Friend

Drug dogs sniff at the Fourth Amendment

Greg Beato | 2.17.2011 7:00 AM

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Does Judge Vinson's Ruling Require the Government to Stop Implementing ObamaCare?

Damon Root | 2.16.2011 2:59 PM

Politics

If We Pretend There Is No Issue, Maybe It Will Go Away

Jacob Sullum | 2.16.2011 12:24 PM

Politics

New York's Doomsday Manual

Damon Root | 2.15.2011 3:32 PM

Politics

Did Feingold Lose Because of Citizens United? (Part II)

Jacob Sullum | 2.11.2011 5:29 PM

Politics

Are We All Originalists Now?

The debate over ObamaCare highlights a growing division on the legal left

Damon Root | 2.11.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

According to The New York Times, This Is the 101st Century

Jacob Sullum | 2.10.2011 1:34 PM

Politics

The Constitutional Liberty We Lost

Legal scholar David Mayer explains why liberty of contract is about more than economics

Brian Doherty | 2.9.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Alcohol Wholesalers: We Must Protect Our Profits the Public

Jacob Sullum | 2.9.2011 3:22 PM

Politics

Larry Tribe: The Health Insurance Mandate Is So Clearly Constitutional That I Don't Even Know Why I'm Bothering to Write This Op-Ed Piece

Jacob Sullum | 2.9.2011 12:52 PM

Politics

Passive Resistance

Excluding inactivity from the Commerce Clause still leaves Congress with far too much power.

Jacob Sullum | 2.9.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Will Kennedy Vote Against the Health Insurance Mandate?

Jacob Sullum | 2.8.2011 5:43 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: How to Deal with Cops - Q&A with Steve Silverman of Flex Your Rights

Reason Staff | 2.8.2011 12:30 PM

Politics

Does the First Amendment Protect the Corporate Speech of the New York Times Company?

Damon Root | 2.8.2011 9:19 AM

Politics

ObamaCare: Mostly Dead? All Dead? Not Dead Yet?

Peter Suderman | 2.7.2011 3:31 PM

Politics

An Interview With Stewart Rhodes

The founder of Oath Keepers explains his vision and responds to his critics.

Radley Balko | 2.7.2011 12:00 PM

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Individual Liberty and the Health Care Law

Damon Root | 2.4.2011 3:08 PM

Politics

Harvard Law Prof Tells Senate that Congress Can Make You Buy Broccoli

Peter Suderman | 2.3.2011 5:24 PM

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A Mandate Too Far

Why ObamaCare deserves to fall

Steve Chapman | 2.3.2011 7:00 AM

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The Right Kind of Activism

Does the federal court system exist to rubber stamp legislation?

David Harsanyi | 2.2.2011 12:00 PM

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Why Judge Vinson's Ruling Matters

Peter Suderman | 2.1.2011 1:14 PM

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Obama Administration Says Health Care Law Is All Or Nothing. Judge Gives Them Nothing.

Peter Suderman | 1.31.2011 6:31 PM

Politics

Does Judge Vinson's Ruling Halt Implementation of ObamaCare?

Damon Root | 1.31.2011 6:06 PM

Politics

Federal Judge: Individual Mandate Unconstitutional, Health Care Overhaul "must be declared void"

Peter Suderman | 1.31.2011 3:55 PM

Politics

What Happens When You Insist on Your 5th Amendment Rights to Not Answer Questions or Show Your Papers to Immigration Cops in an Empty Desert Somewhere?

Matt Welch | 1.27.2011 10:54 AM

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Progressives vs. "Progressive Originalism"

Damon Root | 1.26.2011 6:21 PM

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Grading Barack Obama

Libertarian legal scholar Richard Epstein on his former University of Chicago colleague

Nick Gillespie | 1.24.2011 4:30 PM

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Common Cause: Citizens United Should Be Overturned Because Scalia and Thomas Attended a Koch Seminar

Jacob Sullum | 1.21.2011 1:21 PM

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The Simpsons, Skins, and Child Porn

Jacob Sullum | 1.20.2011 5:46 PM

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Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks with Judge Napolitano About Post-Tucson Proposals to Limit Liberties

Reason Staff | 1.20.2011 2:33 PM

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There Are Now 27 States Challenging the Constitutionality of ObamaCare

Peter Suderman | 1.20.2011 10:17 AM

Politics

'Cars, After All, Are Not Like Health Care'

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2011 4:39 PM

Politics

A Birthright, and a Mess of Pottage

The misguided effort to remove birthright citizenship

Steve Chapman | 1.17.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Alcohol and the Origins of the First Amendment

Damon Root | 1.14.2011 3:42 PM