What are the 10 best Supreme Court decisions?
Libertarians generally tend to believe that the Supreme Court has largely failed to protect individual rights in accordance with the Constitution. Last year, Chip Mellor of the Institute for Justice and Robert Levy of the Cato Institute published “The Dirty Dozen: How 12 Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom,” outlining Supreme Court decisions that, well, radically expanded government and eroded freedom. But obviously, not all Supreme Court decisions are bad. Sometimes the Court has stood for freedom. So what are the Top 10 Supreme Court cases for freedom? I’ll open comments – please share your thoughts on the 10 best Supreme Court decisions for liberty, with a few sentences, if you can, on why you think that. Just to start, I’ll name just one case that would be on my list – not necessarily at the top, but definitely on the list: Schecter Poultry Corp. v. United States. I think most Americans don’t realize how close the United States came to adopting a fa
