Cato Supreme Court Review, 2005-2006 (Cato Supreme Court Review)

The appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito made this a momentous year for the Supreme Court. Now, speculation is rife about the impact these justices will have on our constitutional rights. In its first term, the new Roberts Court has tackled controversial cases involving assisted suicide, wetlands, campaign finance, free speech, and privacy rights--providing, in the process, important hints about the direction the new Court will chart. In this annual review from the Cato Institute, edited by Mark Moller, leading legal scholars analyze these and other far-reaching cases of the 2005-2006 Supreme Court term. More necessary than ever, the Cato Supreme Court Review is unique and timely reading, critiquing the Court's decisions and emerging directions with authenticity, insight, and clarity. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Foreward......Page 8 Introduction......Page 16 ANNUAL B. KENNETH SIMON LECTURE......Page 22 SEPARATION OF POWERS IN WARTIME: AN EXCHANGE......Page 66 FEDERALISM......Page 128 FREEDOM OF SPEECH......Page 210 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY......Page 272 FOURTH AMENDMENT AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE......Page 298 ANTITRUST......Page 348 COMING UP......Page 376 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 402 In this annual review from the Cato Institute, Mark K. Moller and leading legal scholars analyze the 2005-2006 Supreme Court term, specificially the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its fifth edition, the Review is the first scholarly journal to appear after the term's end and the only one grounded in the nation's first principles, liberty, and limited government