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Bruce Bartlett Explains How Libertarianism Created Jim Crow

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2010 2:03 PM

Rand Paul, Property Rights, and Racism

Damon Root | 5.20.2010 3:58 PM

How Should Justices Judge?

Striking a balance between liberal and conservative legal theories

Steve Chapman | 5.20.2010 7:00 AM

Distorting Elena Kagan's Second Amendment Record

Damon Root | 5.19.2010 2:48 PM

Constitutionally Dangerous

A preventive detention law shows why we need to confine Congress.

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2010 7:00 AM

"The case is about a constitutional principle—the right to sell products grown in other states."

Damon Root | 5.18.2010 11:12 AM

Pre-Crime Detention Based on Enumerated (Yet Curiously Unspecified) Powers

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2010 2:24 PM

Judicial Restraint or Constitutional Abdication?

Damon Root | 5.17.2010 2:01 PM

Where Kagan Is Better Than Stevens on Free Speech

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2010 12:54 PM

The Nation: "Elena Kagan should be borked."

Damon Root | 5.14.2010 8:40 AM

"We talked about the Citizens United case and she said she thought the court was not sufficiently deferential to Congress."

Damon Root | 5.13.2010 4:34 PM

Elena Kagan on Free Speech, Executive Power, and Judicial Restraint

Will Obama's Supreme Court pick show too much deference to the government?

Damon Root | 5.13.2010 3:00 PM

New Challenge to Health Insurance Mandate

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2010 6:16 PM

Squinting at Kagan's Views on Campaign Finance Regulation

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2010 5:31 PM

The Bounds of Silence

Obama's Supreme Court pick looks wobbly on freedom of speech.

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2010 7:00 AM

What Would Joe Lieberman's Terrorist Expatriation Act Accomplish?

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2010 3:20 PM

Judicial Restraint and Obama's Next Supreme Court Pick

Damon Root | 5.7.2010 10:44 AM

Does the Constitution Need a Parental Advisory Sticker?

Damon Root | 5.6.2010 4:57 PM

Lieberman: Terrorists Don't Deserve Citizenship

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2010 11:09 AM

T. Markus Funk on The International Criminal Court

Reason Staff | 5.4.2010 3:02 PM

Obama: Conservative Judicial Activism Bad, Liberal Judicial Activism, Well…

Damon Root | 4.30.2010 11:28 AM

Tomorrow at Reason.tv: Nanny of the Month! Today at Reason.tv: Should Obscenity be Illegal?

Nick Gillespie | 4.29.2010 6:57 PM

The Shifting Legal Arguments for ObamaCare

Damon Root | 4.29.2010 10:49 AM

Free Speech for Us

The Gray Lady's inconsistent defense of the First Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2010 7:00 AM

Supreme Court to Consider Violent Video Games

Jacob Sullum | 4.26.2010 6:56 PM

The Washington Post Endorses Goodwin Liu

Damon Root | 4.26.2010 4:28 PM

Is Judge Napolitano a Hater?

Matt Welch | 4.26.2010 10:57 AM

Stevens the Censor v. Stevens the Freedom Fighter

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2010 2:13 PM

Fit to Judge

What the Goodwin Liu hearings reveal about the judicial confirmation process

Damon Root | 4.22.2010 4:00 PM

The Supreme Court's 'Robustly Libertarian View' of Free Speech

Jacob Sullum | 4.21.2010 12:26 PM

Private Free Speech or Official Discrimination?

Jacob Sullum | 4.20.2010 8:45 PM

Progressive History 101 (Minus All that Uncomfortable Racism, Sexism, and Support for Eugenics)

Damon Root | 4.19.2010 1:02 PM

Geoffrey Stone Cuts Through Judicial Stereotypes

Jacob Sullum | 4.14.2010 4:42 PM

The Slaughterhouse Cases: Getting the 14th Amendment Wrong for 137 Years

Damon Root | 4.14.2010 12:47 PM

The Senate v. The Constitution

Preparing for the next Supreme Court confirmation battle

David Harsanyi | 4.14.2010 12:00 PM

Unfaithful Friend of Liberty

John Paul Stevens' spotty record as a defender of individual rights

Jacob Sullum | 4.14.2010 7:00 AM

Raising Money Is Hard. I'm No Obama.

Jacob Sullum | 4.13.2010 4:57 PM

Justice John Paul Stevens' Mixed Record on Civil Liberties

Stevens wasn't the civil libertarian he's made out to be, but his retirement will still leave the Court more deferential to government power.

Radley Balko | 4.12.2010 3:00 PM

Injustice System

Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano on repealing the 17th Amendment, "constitutional activism," and his bestselling new book Lies the Government Told You.

Damon Root | 4.8.2010 3:00 PM

Gun Controllers Need Not Fear 'Intermediate Scrutiny'

Jacob Sullum | 4.7.2010 4:32 PM

Smoke a Joint, Lose Your Country

Rigid deportation rules make a mockery of justice.

Jacob Sullum | 4.7.2010 7:00 AM

States' Rights and American History

Damon Root | 4.6.2010 12:12 PM

The Power to Regulate Commerce Across State Lines Is Also the Power to Regulate Non-Commerce Within a State

Peter Suderman | 4.5.2010 6:36 PM

New Site for Serious Writing and Reading About Law

Brian Doherty | 4.5.2010 2:01 PM

Mandate Madness

Peter Suderman | 4.2.2010 5:03 PM

"I don't worry about the Constitution on this, to be honest."

Damon Root | 4.2.2010 2:28 PM

Glenn Reynolds and Randy Barnett Talking Constitutionality of Individual Mandate

Nick Gillespie | 4.1.2010 7:56 AM

The Disappearing Blood Stain

How New Orleans prosecutors nearly killed a man by withholding evidence

Jacob Sullum | 3.31.2010 7:00 AM

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