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Roger Pilon

Opinion and Commentary


"A Layman for the Supreme Court?," National Review (Online), May 12, 2009

"Individual Liberty and the Constitution: A Response to Robert Bork," The Federalist Society (Online), July 9, 2008

"In a Class Of Your Own," Legal Times, June 16, 2008

"Listening to the Enemy," The Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2008

"Conservatism vs. the Constitution," National Review, August 15, 2007

"New Right to Life," The Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2007

"Importing Price Controls," The Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2007

"Letter to the Editor: Constitution Also Protects Rights Not Enumerated," The Wall Street Journal, December 26, 2006

"Stopping the Government's Property Grab," Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2006

"Executive Checks on the Imperial Congress," The Politic - Yale University, June 5, 2006

"Rule of Law: Whose Life Is It, Anyway?," The Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2006

"Let Politics Check NSA Surveillance," The Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2006

"Alito and Abortion," The Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2005

"McCarthy Liberals," New York Post, July 29, 2005

"She's the Right Radical," Legal Times, May 24, 2005

"Nowhere Else to Go," American Spectator, May 18, 2005

"The Constitutional Option," New York Sun, April 28, 2005

"The Reimportation Blues," The Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2004

"China's Viagra Test," Apple Daily, August 11, 2004

"Celebrating Independence Day's Principles," National Review (Online), July 4, 2004

"This Is Your Senate on Drugs," Cato.org, May 4, 2004

"Judge Wars," New York Post, November 12, 2003

"Conservative Drug Split," by Roger Pilon and Edward H. Crane, National Review (Online), July 29, 2003

"The Court Stumbles Again," New York Sun, June 24, 2003

"Crucial Line Between Public, Private Discrimination Missing from Law," Ann Arbor News, May 30, 2003

"Government Shouldn't Police Morals -- or Sexual Practices," Cato.org, April 6, 2003

"Toward the Restoration of Law," Los Angeles Daily Journal, January 17, 2003

"The Blessings of Liberty and Law," Cato.org, December 23, 2002

"Needed: Active Judges -- Not To Be Confused With Judicial Activists," National Review (Online), November 20, 2002

"Leahy's Slow Roll on Confirmations," The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2002

"Libertarianism Lives," by Edward H. Crane and Roger Pilon, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2002

"Reclaiming the Constitution," National Review (Online), May 16, 2002

"Bench Politics: Senate Stalls on Judges Who Would Uphold the Constitution," Legal Times, January 21, 2002

"Right, Center, & Left Support Free & Open Debate in Wartime: Dissent Does Not Give Aid, Comfort to Enemy," Cato.org, December 10, 2001

"Guarding the Home Front: Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism?," Reason, December 6, 2001

"First Thoughts on the New Money Laundering Act," Cato.org, December 6, 2001

"Craving Comity ... And Losing at Hardball," National Review (Online), October 30, 2001

"Judges and the Constitution: Everything Is Politics," National Review (Online), September 6, 2001

"Picking Judges: The Senate Should Stand on Principle," Cato.org, July 20, 2001

"The Reform That Corrupts," National Review (Online), January 24, 2001

"No Controlling Legal Authority," Cato.org, January 15, 2001

"Letter to the Editor of The Wall Street Journal Concerning Elian Gonzalez," The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2000

"Violence Against Women Act Exceeds Federal Authority," Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 30, 2000

"They're Back: The Rehnquist Court is returning to constitutional principles that the New Deal Court had simply pushed aside.," Legal Times, February 14, 2000

"Feminism and the Limits of Federal Power," Cato.org, January 17, 2000

"A "Radical" for the FEC?," Cato.org, July 30, 1999

"The Blame Game," Rocky Mountain News, May 19, 1999

"Making Use of the Constitution: A Term Limits Amendment," The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 1997

"Term Limits and The Great Con-Con Hoax," Cato.org, September 2, 1996

"Desecrating Principle for the Sake of a Symbol," Cato.org, June 14, 1995

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