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2024-2025 Cato Sup. Ct. Rev. vii (2024-2025)

handle is hein.journals/catoscrev24 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD The Government Still Knows How to Win at the Supreme Court Thomas A. Berry* The Cato Institute's Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies is pleased to publish this 24th volume of the Cato Supreme Court Review, an annual critique of the Court's most important deci- sions from the Term just ended plus a look at the Term ahead. We are the first such journal to be released, and the only one that ap- proaches its task from a classical liberal, Madisonian perspective. We release this volume each year at Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium. Like every Supreme Court Term, this past Term featured some decisions that advanced liberty and limited government and some that were setbacks from a libertarian perspective. It would have been hard for the Court to match the number of momentous decisions from last year. If anything, this Term showed that even with a Supreme Court majority that is more skeptical of government power in some respects, the government still has many advantages. In last year's Foreword I highlighted three cases from the Term that I believed classical liberals should be excited about. To counterbalance that optimism, the story of this Term was, in my opinion, several cases where the Court was all too quick to accept the government's justifi- cations for its exercise of power. My thoughts on one of those cases, Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, can be found in another article in this Volume. Below are my takes on three other decisions that I found disappointing from this Term, all three of which ruled in favor of a state or federal government. * Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, and editor in chief, Cato Supreme Court Review. vii