NEW YORK, May 9 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on May 8, 2026, by Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies and senior fellow, to Law and Liberty:

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The Education of a Cook County Originalist

Randy Barnett's Felony Review is, in one obvious sense, a sequel to A Life for Liberty: his previous book gave us the intellectual arc, while this one recovers material that couldn't fit there and brings us . . .

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