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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

Politics

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

Damon Root | 7.1.2011 12:57 PM

Politics

Judge Sutton, ObamaCare, and Judicial Restraint

Damon Root | 6.30.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Indefensible

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

Clay Conrad | 6.22.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

The peril of vague criminal statutes

Harvey Silverglate | 6.21.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

CQ Profiles Libertarian Legal Scholar and ObamaCare Foe Randy Barnett

Damon Root | 6.21.2011 1:13 PM

Politics

A Bad Day for ObamaCare at the 11th Circuit?

Damon Root | 6.10.2011 3:59 PM

Politics

Ayn Rand, Herbert Spencer, and ObamaCare

Damon Root | 6.9.2011 12:03 PM

Politics

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

Politics

Does the Commerce Clause Impose Any Limits on Congressional Power?

Damon Root | 6.7.2011 12:41 PM

Politics

Wrongful Convictions

How many innocent Americans are behind bars?

Radley Balko | 6.7.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Chicago Must Pay for Denying Second Amendment Rights

Damon Root | 6.3.2011 4:23 PM

Politics

ObamaCare's Day in Court at the 6th Circuit

Damon Root | 6.1.2011 5:30 PM

Politics

Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Corporate Contributions to Political Candidates

Damon Root | 5.27.2011 3:39 PM

Politics

Big Brother Is Watching You

Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.25.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Can You Copyright a Tattoo?

Damon Root | 5.25.2011 12:42 PM

Politics

Dance Like Nobody's Watching, Except the Park Police

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.17.2011 4:20 PM

Politics

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

Damon Root | 5.17.2011 3:13 PM

Politics

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

Damon Root | 5.12.2011 2:51 PM

Politics

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

Politics

Eat Your Veggies

Why the broccoli argument might backfire in the ObamaCare case

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.6.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

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

Politics

Passive Resistance

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

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

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

Politics

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

Damon Root | 4.5.2011 3:20 PM

Politics

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

Politics

Abortion, Liberalism, and Limiting Government Power

Damon Root | 3.8.2011 2:03 PM

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

Politics

Brian Aitken's Mistake

An outrageous gun prosecution in New Jersey

Radley Balko | 3.1.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Chilling Her Softly

The secret silencing of a pain treatment activist

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Is Advocacy of Jury Nullification a Crime?

Brian Doherty | 2.25.2011 7:14 PM

Politics

Obama, Gay Marriage, and Executive Power

Damon Root | 2.24.2011 8:19 AM

Politics

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

Damon Root | 2.16.2011 2:59 PM

Politics

ObamaCare and Judicial Deference

Damon Root | 2.11.2011 3:45 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

Fully Isolated Jury Association

Brian Doherty | 2.3.2011 11:40 AM

Politics

A Mandate Too Far

Why ObamaCare deserves to fall

Steve Chapman | 2.3.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

He Loves the Mandate, He Loves It Not.

The Obama administration's individual mandate flip-flops.

Peter Suderman | 2.2.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

The Right Kind of Activism

Does the federal court system exist to rubber stamp legislation?

David Harsanyi | 2.2.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Does Judge Vinson's Ruling Halt Implementation of ObamaCare?

Damon Root | 1.31.2011 6:06 PM

Politics

Libertarian Activist Dragged to Floor, Cuffed, and Dragged Out of Court for Not Taking Off Hat

Brian Doherty | 1.25.2011 6:34 PM

Politics

Loughner's Lawyer

Damon Root | 1.11.2011 10:40 AM

Politics

Is Jury Nullification Legal?

Damon Root | 12.28.2010 5:23 PM

Politics

Goodwin Liu Won't Be Joining the Federal Bench Just Yet

Damon Root | 12.27.2010 3:44 PM

Politics

New York's High Court Finally Gets Something Right

Damon Root | 12.21.2010 12:16 PM

Politics

Marked for Life

Constitutionally protected tattoos

Damon Root | 12.17.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

An Unhealthy Mandate

Does ObamaCare violate the Constitution?

Steve Chapman | 12.16.2010 7:00 AM