IJ FreedomCast
The Institute for Justice records regular podcasts featuring interviews
with both IJ clients and attorneys. We discuss the principles
we fight for as we advance a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society.
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The Rights Not Listed in the U.S. Constitution
The Framers drafted the Bill of Rights to protect individual liberty from government encroachment. Although the Framers listed specific rights in the first eight amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the 9th Amendment makes clear that these “enumerated” rights are not a complete list of all rights the Constitution protects. Following the Civil War, another rights-protecting provision, the Privileges or Immunities Clause, was added to the Constitution as part of the 14th Amendment. The 9th Amendment and the Privileges or Immunities Clause both protect liberties such as the right to earn an honest living. These so-called “unenumerated” rights are every bit as much a part of the Constitution as specifically enumerated rights, and Institute for Justice Attorneys Clark Neily and Robert McNamara discuss why the rights not listed in the Constitution must be protected by the courts.
Guests: IJ Attorneys Clark Neily and Robert McNamara
Host: Shira Rawlinson
Length: 24:05
Date: January 2012
Government Unchecked: The False Problem of “Judicial Activism” and the Need for Judicial Engagement
IJ Senior Attorneys Clark Neily and Steve Simpson discuss the new Center for Judicial Engagement report called Government Unchecked: The False Problem of “Judicial Activism” and the Need for Judicial Engagement.
They answer the questions: Is the U.S. Supreme Court running roughshod over the other branches of government? Is it true, as outgoing Sen. Arlen Specter claimed, that the Court “has been eating Congress’s lunch by invalidating legislation with judicial activism”? According the report, the answer is emphatically no.
Guests: IJ Attorneys Clark Neily and Steve Simpson
Host: Shira Rawlinson
Length: 29:02
Date: October 2011
Make-Believe Judging: The Rational Basis Test Exposed
IJ Senior Attorneys Clark Neily and Jeff Rowes discuss the rational basis test and how it is used by courts in constitutional cases to provide the appearance of judicial review without the substance.
Guests: IJ Attorneys Clark Neily and Jeff Rowes
Host: Shira Rawlinson
Length: 29:59
Date: Jul 2011
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The Attorney Cartel: How Attorney Licensing Suppresses Competition
IJ Staff Attorney Anthony Sanders talks about attorney licensing and how states use licensing to protect established attorneys from competition. IJ recently had a victory for attorneys in Minnesota’s legal market. Click here to learn more.
Guest: IJ Staff Attorney Anthony Sanders
Host: Mark Meranta
Length: 16:31
Date: June 2011
Half-baked: Critiquing the Lochner Critics
IJ attorneys Clark Neily and Robert McNamara discuss one of the Supreme Court's most misunderstood—and mischaracterized—cases, Lochner v. New York (1905), in which the Court struck down a state law limiting the number of hours bakers could work. Neily and McNamara argue that it is much easier to caricature the Lochner decision than to criticize it persuasively. Neily and McNamara also explain how the majority's decision is more faithful to the text, history, and purpose of the Constitution than the dissents, particularly Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's full-throated embrace of judicial abdication and statism.
Guests: IJ Attorneys Clark Neily and Robert McNamara
Host: Shira Rawlinson
Length: 36:18
Date: May 2011
Economic Liberty in the Constitution
IJ Senior Attorney Clark Neily explains how and why economic liberty is protected by the Constitution.
Guest: IJ Senior Attorney Clark Neily
Host: Shira Rawlinson
Length: 21:54
Date: March 2011
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Eminent Domain and Blight Reform in Washington State and Beyond
IJ Staff Attorney Jeanette Petersen discusses eminent domain abuse and blight reform in the United States, focusing especially on progress in Washington State.
Guest: IJ Staff Attorney Jeanette Petersen
Host: Mark Meranta
Length: 11:27
Date: October 2010
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The Interior Design Cartel in Washington State
IJ Senior Attorney Michael Bindas talks about the interior design cartel in Washington State, and the ways industry insiders try to use the law to keep out competition.
Guest: IJ Senior Attorney Michael Bindas
Host: Mark Meranta
Length: 11:41
Date: October 2010
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Supreme Court Update for Arizona Clean Elections
IJ's Bill Maurer talks about the news that the Institute's Arizona Clean Elections case will go before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011.
Guest: Executive Director of the Institute for Justice Washington Chapter Bill Maurer
Host: Mark Meranta
Length: 06:45
Date: August 2010
McDonald v. Chicago
Listen to expert commentary about the June 28, 2010 SCOTUS ruling in McDonald v. Chicago.
Guest: IJ Staff Attorney Robert McNamara
Host: Mark Meranta
Length: 14:20
Date: October 2010
IJ Client Mercedes Clemens
Institute for Justice client Mercedes Clemens talks about her fight to practice massage.
