Mr. Pilon is vice president for legal affairs at the Cato Institute and director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies.

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Think of Brian Stelter and Mary Pilon at The New York Times, Zach Seward at The Wall Street Journal, Dan Fletcher at Bloomberg and Alex Leo at Reuters.

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Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute notes that a mere three mentions of crime in the Constitution have blossomed into 3, 000 federal criminal statutes and perhaps 300, 000 regulations with criminal sanctions.

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