What a Hidden Supreme Court Case Tells Us About the Constitution
This Commerce Clause case has been buried—deep. Probably because it makes modern writers uncomfortable.
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A Constitution Day Roadmap For The Supreme Court
In celebration of Constitution Day, SCOTUS should correct some of its worst mistakes.
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New Article on Federal Misuse of State National Guards
When states need their guardsmen, they often find that that they are unavailable because the feds have deployed them overseas—in clear violation of the Constitution.
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Flowers Foods v. Brock: Does It Signal a Future Curb in Congress’s Overuse of Its Commerce Power?
It is possible—just possible—that SCOTUS took this easy case as a precursor to narrowing Congress’s economic powers?
The Tariff Case—A Lost Opportunity
Learning Resources v. Trump was a lost opportunity to begin the process of nudging Congress back into its constitutional cage.
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Overturning the Twentieth Century?
Elite opinion aside, the Supreme Court has not aggressively attacked the bad precedents of the past century. Maybe it should.
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Inflation: The Role of a Mistaken Supreme Court
Two erroneous Supreme Court decisions permanently weakened the stability of the dollar.
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Unpacking the Supreme Court’s ‘Universal Injunction’ Decision
The court found that the statute granting courts power to grant injunctions did not include universal injunctions.
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Understanding the Supreme Court’s Case on Transgender Treatment for Children
Skrmetti was one of several cases this year in which the court’s decision protected children.
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The False Media Claim about the Supreme Court
The media’s narrative of a “6-3 conservative majority” is obviously defective. But it does serve a purpose . . . .
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The Supreme Court’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Case: Judicial Amendment by ‘Interpretation’
Courts and commentators sometimes try to change a law by adopting unusual methods of intepretation
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Will the Supreme Court Restore Popular Control Over the ‘Deep State?’
The case of Trump v. Wilcox may be the next step in restoring democratic control over the federal bureaucracy.
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