Although my colleague Ilya Shapiro is off on his honeymoon, he published a piece in the Huffington Post just before the holiday speculating that the Supreme Court is having what you might call a libertarian moment. Some evidence of that: “the Cato Institute is the only organization to have filed briefs supporting the winning side in each of the three big cases” that ended the term: Fisher on affirmative action, Shelby County on voting rights, and Windsor on the Defense of Marriage Act. Ilya argues that the common thread of the three decisions is a principled commitment to equality under the law, which leads to skepticism toward identity-based classifications by government. What’s more, Cato “went 15-3 on the year,” truly an extraordinary success rate for any amicus program.
Read more at http://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-courts-libertarian-moment
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