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Rick Scott Scales Back His Urine Demands

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2011 11:12 AM

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Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Class Action Certification in Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Case

Damon Root | 6.20.2011 1:44 PM

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Supreme Court Allows 10th Amendment Challenge to Chemical Weapons Conviction

Jacob Sullum | 6.20.2011 10:54 AM

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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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Shrink the Prisons

Conservatives are as wrong about prison overcrowding as liberals were about welfare reform.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.7.2011 7:00 AM

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Supreme Court Won't Hear Wesley Snipes' Appeal

Damon Root | 6.6.2011 4:11 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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Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the Conservative Response to the Supreme Court's Prison Crowding Decision

Reason Staff | 6.3.2011 12:10 PM

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Supreme Court Says Pretending to Detain People As Material Witnesses Is Constitutional

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2011 1:45 PM

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Rick Scott's Urine Fetish

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2011 12:25 PM

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FDR Solicitor General Lied to Supreme Court about Japanese Internment

Damon Root | 5.31.2011 2:39 PM

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When Punishment Is a Crime

The Supreme Court takes on California's overcrowded prison system.

Steve Chapman | 5.30.2011 7:00 AM

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Supreme Court Upholds Arizona's Anti-Immigration "Business Death Penalty"

Damon Root | 5.26.2011 12:38 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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Home Insecurity

Two privacy rulings hit us where we live.

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 7:00 AM

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Gun Control's Unintended Consequences

Damon Root | 5.24.2011 11:45 AM

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Supreme Court Upholds Order to Slash California's Prison Population

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2011 5:50 PM

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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