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				<title>Individual Liberty and the Constitution: A Response to Robert Bork (Commentary)</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The following commentary was prepared for the The Federalist Society Online Debate Series in response to an article by Judge Robert Bork titled "Individual Liberty and the Constitution." 

Few have done more over the years to articulate the conservative response to liberal judicial activism than J...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>SCOTUS Kills the D.C. Gun Ban (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=671</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>In a Class Of Your Own (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9465</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When the Supreme Court affirms a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, that's news, especially when nearly every other circuit has gone the other way. That's what happened last week in Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture. Unfortunately, the news would be better had the ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cato Scholar Comments on Neighborhood Checkpoints in DC (Scholar Comments)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier's proposal to have vehicular checkpoints as a part of their 'Neighborhood Safety Zone' (NSZ) program is an extreme overreaction to a modest spike in murders. Many of these murders are drug related, of course. Does the mayor believe that drug dealers won't simply move their transactions to non-targeted areas? Under this program, police controlling the Neighborhood Safety Zones are charged to inquire whether the operator and occupant(s) of a stopped vehicle have a 'legitimate reason' for entering the NSZ. Legitimate reasons, they say, "shall only include: the person resides in the NSZ; the person is employed in the NSZ or is on a commercial delivery; the person attends school or is taking a child to or picking a child up from school in the NSZ; or the person is attempting to attend a verified organized civic community or religious event in the NSZ.'  One can imagine countless other 'legitimate reasons' for wanting to enter an NSZ -- e.g., to care for a sick relative, or simply to visit a friend -- but the listed reasons above are apparently the 'only' reasons permitted. The irony here is that the mayor admits, by implication, that the police can't be everywhere -- thus he's trying to increase their presence in these targeted areas -- but at the same time he defends the District's draconian hand-gun ban, the effect of which is to prevent law-abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves. This is a textbook example of how government restricts one liberty &#8211; denying people the means to protect themselves &#8211; then restricts another &#8211; the right to freely come and go &#8211; when the unintended but wholly predictable consequences of the first restriction come to the fore. What next, general curfews?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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