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Injustice, In Plain Sight

The trouble with eyewitness testimony

Steve Chapman | 8.29.2011 7:00 AM

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Airport Security vs. The Constitution

Government critics deserve their day in court.

A. Barton Hinkle | 8.19.2011 4:30 PM

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A False Remedy for Sex Offenders

Draconian laws offer counterfeit comfort.

Steve Chapman | 8.19.2011 12:00 PM

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Strict Scrutiny

ObamaCare and the long slow death of conservative judicial restraint

Damon Root | 8.18.2011 12:00 PM

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Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Strikes Down Individual Mandate

Damon Root | 8.12.2011 3:36 PM

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Affirmative Action Heading Back to Supreme Court?

Damon Root | 8.1.2011 10:17 AM

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ObamaCare Petition Reaches the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 7.27.2011 5:39 PM

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Occupational Licensing Abuse Struck Down in Louisiana

Damon Root | 7.21.2011 5:14 PM

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Stanford So Smart Even Its Rapists Are Logical

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.21.2011 3:50 PM

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Gun Rights and the 10th Amendment

Damon Root | 7.14.2011 10:13 AM

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IPAB: "The Roach After the Nuclear Blast."

ObamaCare's Medicare cost-control panel may be unworkable, unconstitutional, and a barrier to real reform. It's also very difficult to repeal.

Peter Suderman | 7.13.2011 12:00 PM

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Samuel Alito, Burkean Conservative?

Damon Root | 7.11.2011 5:49 PM

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The Great Basketball Swindle

A riveting new documentary takes on New York's shameful eminent domain abuse

Damon Root | 7.11.2011 12:00 PM

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The Ever-Expanding Commerce Clause vs. "Libertarian Anti-Government Activism"

Damon Root | 7.1.2011 12:57 PM

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Judge Sutton, ObamaCare, and Judicial Restraint

Damon Root | 6.30.2011 4:30 PM

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Indefensible

Public defenders are too overloaded to protect the rights of the accused.

Clay Conrad | 6.22.2011 4:30 PM

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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

The peril of vague criminal statutes

Harvey Silverglate | 6.21.2011 1:30 PM

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CQ Profiles Libertarian Legal Scholar and ObamaCare Foe Randy Barnett

Damon Root | 6.21.2011 1:13 PM

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A Bad Day for ObamaCare at the 11th Circuit?

Damon Root | 6.10.2011 3:59 PM

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Ayn Rand, Herbert Spencer, and ObamaCare

Damon Root | 6.9.2011 12:03 PM

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Federal Judge: "Taken seriously, Citizens United requires that corporations and individuals be afforded equal rights to political speech, unqualified."

Damon Root | 6.8.2011 2:20 PM

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Does the Commerce Clause Impose Any Limits on Congressional Power?

Damon Root | 6.7.2011 12:41 PM

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Wrongful Convictions

How many innocent Americans are behind bars?

Radley Balko | 6.7.2011 12:00 PM

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Chicago Must Pay for Denying Second Amendment Rights

Damon Root | 6.3.2011 4:23 PM

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ObamaCare's Day in Court at the 6th Circuit

Damon Root | 6.1.2011 5:30 PM

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Corporate Contributions to Political Candidates

Damon Root | 5.27.2011 3:39 PM

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Big Brother Is Watching You

Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.25.2011 4:30 PM

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Can You Copyright a Tattoo?

Damon Root | 5.25.2011 12:42 PM

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Dance Like Nobody's Watching, Except the Park Police

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.17.2011 4:20 PM

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Can't We Just Abolish the Supreme Court Before It Abolishes ObamaCare?

Damon Root | 5.17.2011 3:13 PM

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The District of Columbia vs. District of Columbia v. Heller

Damon Root | 5.12.2011 2:51 PM

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Leviathan's Lawyers

The Office of the Solicitor General has traditionally defended the government. But should it?

Radley Balko | 5.12.2011 10:30 AM

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Eat Your Veggies

Why the broccoli argument might backfire in the ObamaCare case

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.6.2011 12:00 PM

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A Grandstanding Attorney General

Why Ken Cuccinelli should drop his misguided case against climatologist Michael Mann

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.4.2011 6:00 PM

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Passive Resistance

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

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2011 12:00 PM

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A Conservative Defense of ObamaCare

Reagan's former solicitor general says the individual mandate passes constitutional muster

Steve Chapman | 4.18.2011 7:00 AM

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Obama and Executive Power: How's that Hope and Change Working Out?

Damon Root | 4.5.2011 3:20 PM

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An Overreaching Attorney General

ObamaCare foe Ken Cuccinelli's misguided fight to expand state power in Virginia

A. Barton Hinkle | 3.18.2011 1:30 PM

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Abortion, Liberalism, and Limiting Government Power

Damon Root | 3.8.2011 2:03 PM

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The Goodwin Liu Hearings, Take Two

Damon Root | 3.3.2011 10:55 AM

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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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Brian Aitken's Mistake

An outrageous gun prosecution in New Jersey

Radley Balko | 3.1.2011 7:00 AM

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Chilling Her Softly

The secret silencing of a pain treatment activist

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2011 4:30 PM

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Is Advocacy of Jury Nullification a Crime?

Brian Doherty | 2.25.2011 7:14 PM

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Obama, Gay Marriage, and Executive Power

Damon Root | 2.24.2011 8:19 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

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ObamaCare and Judicial Deference

Damon Root | 2.11.2011 3:45 PM

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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