The real Commerce Clause – as the Founders knew it
Does the Constitution’s Commerce Clause really entitle the federal government to tell us what kind of toilets we can use? Or prescribe our light bulbs? Or force us into government controlled health care? Or tell us we can’t drain a swamp on our own property? Congress...
The source of federal power to stop illegal immigration
Believe it or not, over 230 years after the Constitution was adopted, law professors and judges still argue over whether the Constitution gives Congress power to control immigration—and, if it does, the clause of the Constitution that grants that power. The dispute is...
Why overturning Roe v. Wade causes so much rage
To understand the rage over the Supreme Court’s long-overdue abandonment of Roe v. Wade (pdf), you have to think how political operatives do. It’s not how the rest of us think. To the rest of us, whatever our position on legalized abortion, the anger at the court’s...