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The Supreme Court's Advice About the Fourth Amendment: Use It or Lose It

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2011 3:41 PM

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"What Planet Is Alito Living On?"

Damon Root | 5.20.2011 4:27 PM

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The Joke Is on Stephen Colbert

Damon Root | 5.19.2011 4:24 PM

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"Why Should Fourth Amendment Protections Be Lessened to Prevent the Destruction of Evidence?"

Damon Root | 5.18.2011 2:39 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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"Our Homes Are Supposed To Be Our Castles"

Damon Root | 5.16.2011 3:29 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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Clarence Thomas and the First Amendment

Damon Root | 5.11.2011 2:26 PM

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John Paul Stevens Praises Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

Damon Root | 5.6.2011 11:42 AM

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Why Can't We Kick These Old Fogies Off the Bench?

Damon Root | 4.28.2011 3:16 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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ObamaCare, the Necessary and Proper Clause, and U.S. v. Comstock

Damon Root | 4.20.2011 4:57 PM

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John Judis: If the Disinterested Judiciary Rejects My Ideological Interpretation of the Commerce Clause, Then Disinterestedness Itself Will Collapse, and Maybe We'll Have a Civil War. Wait, What?

Matt Welch | 4.18.2011 4:08 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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The Supreme Court and the Wisdom of Crowds

Damon Root | 4.7.2011 4:11 PM

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CARE Enough to Screw Over Wine Consumers

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2011 6:22 PM

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Scalia and the Innocent

Radley Balko | 4.4.2011 9:36 AM

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The Future of the Second Amendment

Damon Root | 4.1.2011 5:48 PM

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Money for Moochers

Arizona's 'Clean Elections' system is doomed-and for good reason.

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2011 7:00 AM

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Is the Arizona 'Clean Elections' Case About 'Free Speech for Really Rich Guys'?

Jacob Sullum | 3.29.2011 8:20 PM

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Supreme Court Firms Up State Immunity From Wrongful Conviction Lawsuits

Radley Balko | 3.29.2011 6:24 PM

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Not So Surprising News from the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 3.25.2011 5:43 PM

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More Evidence that the Supreme Court Isn't Pro-Business

Damon Root | 3.23.2011 11:35 AM

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The Business of the Court

Liberals say the Supreme Court has a pro-corporate bias. Are they right?

Damon Root | 3.18.2011 12:00 PM

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More on the Supreme Court and DNA Testing

Radley Balko | 3.11.2011 2:18 PM

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Will Scalia's Angry Dissents Win the Future?

Damon Root | 3.10.2011 3:10 PM

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Abortion, Liberalism, and Limiting Government Power

Damon Root | 3.8.2011 2:03 PM

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"Why Do Newspapers Support Westboro Baptist, but Not Citizens United?"

Damon Root | 3.7.2011 4:59 PM

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Leviathan's Lawyers

Obama's stand against DOMA raises the question: Why don't presidents stick up for the Constitution more often?

Radley Balko | 3.7.2011 12:00 PM

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Can Prosecutors Make the Fourth Amendment Disappear by Calling a Suspect a Witness?

Jacob Sullum | 3.3.2011 12:40 PM

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

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2011 1:44 PM

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What Speech Would Be Free In Alitopia?

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.2.2011 12:59 PM

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Westboro Funeral Protests

Damon Root | 3.2.2011 11:36 AM

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"The Pro-Business Roberts Court Is Striking Out"

Damon Root | 3.1.2011 7:06 PM

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"Justice Thomas Emerges As Surprising Ally for Progressives"

Damon Root | 2.28.2011 11:37 AM

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A Case That Belonged on Maury, Not in Federal Court

Jacob Sullum | 2.23.2011 12:28 PM

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

Jacob Sullum | 2.16.2011 12:24 PM

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Justice Clarence Thomas, Silent All These Years

Damon Root | 2.14.2011 4:03 PM

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

Jacob Sullum | 2.11.2011 5:29 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

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

Jacob Sullum | 2.10.2011 1:34 PM

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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

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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

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Antonin Scalia's Complicated History with the Commerce Clause

Damon Root | 2.9.2011 9:50 AM

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Will Kennedy Vote Against the Health Insurance Mandate?

Jacob Sullum | 2.8.2011 5:43 PM

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

Damon Root | 2.8.2011 9:19 AM