Yahoo

Gibbons v. Ogden: Defining Congress’ power under the Commerce Clause

March 2 marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gibbons v. Ogden. Decided in 1824, Gibbons was the first major case in the still-developing jurisprudence regarding the ...
Yahoo

Here’s a basic explanation of the Commerce Clause

Why do we care about the Commerce Clause in the Constitution? A simple explanation from Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr that appears in Newsweek explains how the clause could settle next month’s Supreme Court ...
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

It's Debatable: Is commerce clause too broad?

This week, Arnold Loewy and Don May debate the Commerce Clause. Don writes an independent blog on lubbockonline.com and Arnold is the George Killiam Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of ...
Washington Times

Commerce Clause at center of battle over health reform

Congress has used the Constitution’s Commerce Clause to fight prostitution and domestic violence, to break monopolies and to combat segregation — but its biggest test could come over the Obama ...
NPR

Health Mandate Fight Hinges On Commerce Clause

On Monday, Virginia became the first state to declare a portion of the health care overhaul unconstitutional. Judge Henry Hudson ruled that the portion of the law that mandates that U.S. citizens be ...
Christian Science Monitor

Obamacare, the Constitution, and the original meaning of the Commerce Clause

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
Wall Street Journal

A Judge’s Toast to the Commerce Clause

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews High Court specialist Ilya Shapiro. Evan Golub/Zuma Press Photo: Evan Golub/Zuma Press The Supreme Court is doing an originalist cleanup job on decades ...
The Atlantic

Reality Check: A Look at What the Commerce Clause Actually Says

The language of the Constitution itself has been absent from coverage of the Supreme Court's hearings on Obamacare. Here's a refresher. The Supreme Court case that may determine the fate of the ...
The New York Times

Revisiting the Constitution: Amend the Commerce Clause

Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse professor of legal theory at Georgetown Law Center and the author of “Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty.” He represented the ...
Slate

Saving Obamacare

Mad Men’s recently completed season offered viewers a recurring metaphorical joke involving Jaguar USA, a prized new client of the ad firm at the center of the show. In vignettes both creative and ...
National Review

Scalia and the Commerce Clause

Colorado Is Still as Confused on Free Speech as It Is on Gender To Fix the Deficit, Start with Bloated ‘Disability’ Programs Trump Should Use His Tariff Instincts to Lower Drug Prices The Humiliating ...
The New York Times

Revisiting the Constitution: Amend the Commerce Clause

Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse professor of legal theory at Georgetown Law Center and the author of “Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty.” He represented the ...