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Damon W. Root

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• Strict Scrutiny
  ObamaCare and the long slow death of conservative judicial restraint
  Damon W. Root
  August 18, 2011
• Death to the Living Constitution
  Can "progressive originalism" become the Next Big Thing on the legal left?
  Damon W. Root
  July 21, 2011
• The Great Basketball Swindle
  A riveting new documentary takes on New York's shameful eminent domain abuse
  Damon W. Root
  July 11, 2011
• Unfair Labor Practices
  Boeing gets hauled before the National Labor Relations Board for opening a new plant in a business-friendly state
  Damon W. Root
  June 15, 2011
• Dead or Alive
  Did the killing of Osama bin Laden violate U.S. law?
  Damon W. Root
  May 5, 2011
• Man vs. the State
  Economist Walter E. Williams reflects on his long career battling Jim Crow, big government, and liberal orthodoxy.
  Damon W. Root
  April 28, 2011
• Licensed to Ill
  Will Florida Republicans stand up against occupational licensing abuse?
  Damon W. Root
  April 14, 2011
• The Spook Racket
  Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead
  Damon W. Root
  April 5, 2011
• The Business of the Court
  Liberals say the Supreme Court has a pro-corporate bias. Are they right?
  Damon W. Root
  March 18, 2011
• Does Federal Law Trump an Oath to the Constitution?
  Obama’s decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act follows conservative precedent.
  Damon W. Root
  March 2, 2011
• Are We All Originalists Now?
  The debate over ObamaCare highlights a growing division on the legal left
  Damon W. Root
  February 11, 2011
• Man Versus the State
  Economist Walter E. Williams reflects on his long career battling Jim Crow, big government, and liberal orthodoxy
  Damon W. Root
  January 28, 2011
• The Never-Ending "Business of Centralization"
  What’s wrong with placing a few limits on federal power?
  Damon W. Root
  December 22, 2010
• Marked for Life
  Constitutionally protected tattoos
  Damon W. Root
  December 17, 2010
• Gay Marriage and the Law
  The battle over Proposition 8 inches closer to the Supreme Court
  Damon W. Root
  December 2, 2010
• Stop Smearing Federalism
  From consumer advocacy to gay marriage, liberals routinely embrace federalism. So why do they keep comparing it to slavery?
  Damon W. Root
  November 10, 2010
• The Deferential Constitutionalist
  Liberals want a “Scalia of the left” on the Supreme Court. Is Justice Breyer their man?
  Damon W. Root
  October 14, 2010
• Holding Justice Kennedy to His Word
  Why the Supreme Court must put a stop to Columbia University's eminent domain abuse.
  Damon W. Root
  September 29, 2010
• Supreme Court Prediction Market
  An interview with FantasySCOTUS.net's Josh Blackman
  Damon W. Root
  September 29, 2010
• Clarence Thomas’ Favorite Anarchist
  The radical anti-statism of Lysander Spooner
  Damon W. Root
  September 16, 2010
• Heeding the Sage of Baltimore
  A new edition of H.L. Mencken’s Prejudices captures the legendary journalist at his corrosive best
  Damon W. Root
  September 10, 2010
• Taking Economic Liberty Seriously
  Does the Constitution protect the right to earn a living?
  Damon W. Root
  August 26, 2010
• Born in the U.S.A.
  The misguided movement to strip birthright citizenship from the Constitution
  Damon W. Root
  August 11, 2010
• Civil Rights and Armed Self-Defense
  Understanding Clarence Thomas' extraordinary concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago
  Damon W. Root
  July 9, 2010
• Filling the Stevens Seat
  Justice John Paul Stevens was no friend to economic liberty. Will Elena Kagan be any better?
  Damon W. Root
  June 25, 2010
• Taken By Regulation
  The 9th Circuit considers the constitutionality of rent control
  Damon W. Root
  June 11, 2010
• Conservatives v. Libertarians
  The debate over judicial activism divides former allies.
  Damon W. Root
  June 8, 2010
• The Blight Stops Here?
  Why New York's highest court should stand up against Columbia University's eminent domain abuse.
  Damon W. Root
  May 27, 2010
• Elena Kagan on Free Speech, Executive Power, and Judicial Restraint
  Will Obama’s Supreme Court pick show too much deference to the government?
  Damon W. Root
  May 13, 2010
• Fit to Judge
  What the Goodwin Liu hearings reveal about the judicial confirmation process
  Damon W. Root
  April 22, 2010
• Injustice System
  Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano on repealing the 17th Amendment, "constitutional activism," and his bestselling new book Lies the Government Told You.
  Damon W. Root
  April 8, 2010
• Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act
  How prevailing wage laws benefit unions at the expense of taxpayers
  Damon W. Root
  March 24, 2010
• Louis Brandeis’ Partial Justice
  How the famous jurist shaped—and misshaped—American law
  Damon W. Root
  March 19, 2010
• Getting the 14th Amendment Right
  The Chicago gun case and the fight for economic liberty
  Damon W. Root
  February 26, 2010
• The Cost of Doing Nothing
  How ObamaCare revived the debate over the use and abuse of the Commerce Clause
  Damon W. Root
  January 21, 2010
• The New Deal Made Them "Right"
  Remembering FDR's principled liberal opponents
  Damon W. Root
  October 16, 2009
• When Public Power Is Used for Private Gain
  It's time for New York's highest court to say no to eminent domain abuse
  Damon W. Root
  October 8, 2009
• "As Naked an Abuse of Government Power as Could be Imagined"
  How the Sotomayor nomination revived the debate over eminent domain abuse
  Damon W. Root
  June 25, 2009
• Sold Down the River
  How Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour sabotaged eminent domain reform
  Damon W. Root
  May 11, 2009
• Soundbite: The Raw Deal
  Damon W. Root
  April 29, 2009
• Briefly Noted: Marketplace of Ideas
  Damon W. Root
  March 30, 2009
• Divide and Conquer
  The American Federation of Labor's shameful record on race
  Damon W. Root
  March 13, 2009
• There Goes the Neighborhood
  Exposing Columbia University's eminent domain abuse
  Damon W. Root
  February 9, 2009
• The Unfortunate Case of Herbert Spencer
  How a libertarian individualist was recast as a social Darwinist
  Damon W. Root
  July 29, 2008

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