[applause]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im the director of catos center for constitutional studies and your host or two days for a odd professor Randy Barnetts new book. Our republican constitution, securing the liberty and sovereignty of we the people with a foreword by george will. Let me also welcome our cspan audience as well as those watching through catos live streaming. Released just two days ago by harpercollins broadside, this book is sure to receive wide attention and deservedly so. In fact, i just learned its available at costco, so people who are watching this and these men cannot do this for them run right out and pick up a copy of the book. It is likely to receive wide attention as i said because it speaks in a fundamental way to the political divisions we see in america today, divisions about health care, gun control, affirmative action, immigration and so much more. But about the fire, more fundament
Her position in Kelo v. New London was partly vindicated when some states enacted laws aimed at discouraging eminent domain abuse, Jacob Sullum writes.
The month before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement in 2005, she dissented from Supreme Court decisions in two cases that illustrated the twin perils of local tyranny and federal overreach.