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Natural Reluctance

Elena Kagan's disturbing refusal to acknowledge pre-existing rights

Jacob Sullum | 7.7.2010 7:00 AM

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Kagan and Free Speech: Good News and Bad News

Jacob Sullum | 7.6.2010 3:28 PM

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How Republicans Made Their Peace with Sodomy

The GOP's selective case against judicial activism

Steve Chapman | 7.5.2010 7:00 AM

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Will Chicago Obey McDonald v. Chicago?

Damon Root | 7.2.2010 2:20 PM

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Coburn and Kagan on Natural Rights

Jacob Sullum | 7.2.2010 12:36 PM

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A Dangerous Precedent

Understanding the stakes in Christian Legal Society v. Hastings

Cathy Young | 7.2.2010 10:45 AM

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What About Tom Coburn's 'Expansive View of the Commerce Clause'?

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2010 2:27 PM

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Is Eating Fruits and Vegetables an Economic Activity? Does It Matter?

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2010 1:43 PM

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"His advocacy for black self-defense is straight from the heart of Malcolm X."

Damon Root | 7.1.2010 10:50 AM

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Is It Constitutional? Well, It's Dumb, but That's Not the Same Thing. All Right Then.

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2010 2:21 PM

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Kagan: That Was Them, This Is Me

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2010 1:19 PM

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Sonia Sotomayor and the Second Amendment

Damon Root | 6.30.2010 8:57 AM

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Gun Shy

Four Supreme Court justices make the case against constitutional rights.

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2010 7:00 AM

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Will Elena Kagan Allow Books to be Banned?

Understanding the Supreme Court nominee's chilling argument in Citizens United

Daniel Shuchman | 6.29.2010 6:00 PM

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Stevens Calls the Right to Arms a 'Property Right' (for Him, the Ultimate Insult)

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2010 4:20 PM

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Elena Kagan and Originalism

Damon Root | 6.29.2010 3:36 PM

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Breyer: Now Judges Will Have to Decide What a Semiautomatic Is

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2010 3:25 PM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Damon Root on McDonald v. Chicago

Reason Staff | 6.29.2010 11:46 AM

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Supreme Court Sarbanes-Oxley Decision: You Can't Keep An Executive Branch Board Two Layers from the President

Brian Doherty | 6.28.2010 6:40 PM

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Confirmation Theater

Elena Kagan is set to participate in a confirmation process she once dismissed as a charade

Radley Balko | 6.28.2010 4:30 PM

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Libertarians Respond to McDonald v. Chicago

Damon Root | 6.28.2010 2:01 PM

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Supreme Court Upholds Christian Legal Society's Exclusion

Jacob Sullum | 6.28.2010 1:58 PM

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Justice John Paul Stevens Is Wrong About Gun Rights, Again

Damon Root | 6.28.2010 12:24 PM

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Unfaithful Friend of Liberty

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

Jacob Sullum | 6.28.2010 12:00 PM

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Supreme Court Overturns Chicago Gun Ban

Jacob Sullum | 6.28.2010 10:13 AM

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Filling the Stevens Seat

Justice John Paul Stevens was no friend to economic liberty. Will Elena Kagan be any better?

Damon Root | 6.25.2010 4:30 PM

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Now We Know What Honest Services Fraud Is (Sort Of)

Jacob Sullum | 6.25.2010 12:15 PM

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"Judicial review of eminent domain in New York is fundamentally broken"

Damon Root | 6.25.2010 11:42 AM

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Reason Morning Links: Honest Services, Private Islands, and a Toronto Police State

Jesse Walker | 6.25.2010 8:28 AM

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Supreme Court Upholds Disclosure of Petition Signers

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2010 2:10 PM

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Guns Save Lives

Why the right to keep and bear arms is essential in a free society

John Stossel | 6.24.2010 12:00 PM

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Want to Read Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan's Email?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.23.2010 12:07 PM

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Marking the Fifth Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London

Damon Root | 6.23.2010 9:15 AM

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Supreme Court Upholds 'Material Support' Ban

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2010 12:27 PM

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That's How You Bork A Supreme Court Nominee

Damon Root | 6.21.2010 10:48 AM

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"Today's decision gives hope to millions of American property owners"

Damon Root | 6.17.2010 1:54 PM

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Predicting the Chicago Gun Case

Damon Root | 6.15.2010 5:15 PM

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Free Speech and Guns

Legal superstar Eugene Volokh on the Bill of Rights in 2010

Eugene Volokh and Ted Balaker | 6.15.2010 7:00 AM

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Clarence Thomas for President?

Damon Root | 6.14.2010 12:14 PM

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Taken By Regulation

The 9th Circuit considers the constitutionality of rent control

Damon Root | 6.11.2010 3:00 PM

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"Chicago will need some new and sensible legislating"

Damon Root | 6.9.2010 9:48 AM

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T-Shirt Tuesday: Get Your Miranda Rights On Your Chest

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.8.2010 10:32 AM

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Conservatives v. Libertarians

The debate over judicial activism divides former allies.

Damon Root | 6.8.2010 7:00 AM

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The 'Costs' of Free Speech

Consequentialism and the First Amendment don't mix.

Matt Welch | 6.7.2010 12:00 PM

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David Souter, Jim Crow, and the Living Constitution

Damon Root | 6.4.2010 2:43 PM

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The Persecution of Gilbert Arenas

How gun prohibitionists and an image-conscious NBA scapegoated a basketball star.

Daniel Wattenberg | 6.3.2010 3:00 PM

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The Supreme Court Hears the Sounds of Silence

Why the high court was wrong to limit the scope of the Miranda warning

Steve Chapman | 6.3.2010 7:00 AM