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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

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