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We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.

We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.

Commentary The federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a classic instance of congressional overreach: It imposes sweeping ...

Commentary The first, second, third, and fourth installments in this series described how the Constitution established a relatively ...

Commentary The first, second, and third installments in this series explained that the Constitution created a small and ...

Commentary On Nov. 12, a federal appeals court suspended (pdf) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) order ...

Commentary By Michael Maharrey | February 15, 2021 | 1:21pm EST A dollar sign is featured on a black background. (Photo credit: YouTube/Javier Velasco Barrero) Talk of hiking the minimum wage at the national level has ramped up in recent weeks. With the Democrats controlling the House and the Senate, and Joe Biden in the White House, it seems increasingly likely that we’ll soon see a federal $15 per hour minimum. In other words, it may soon ...

Wade. >> im not sure i can talk you down on this one. i might actually pour gasoline on the fire, to a mix of metaphors again. there are two concerns that progressives could have, and two things that conservatives could celebrate on the obama care decision. one, he actually did ratchet back both the commerce power, and the spending power. both powers have traditionally been used to expand government power. he expanded taxing power, thats only one of these three powers, the other two have been th...

An institution but to look for ways, if possible, to uphold the democratic process and in this case it produced something and although it wasnt called a tax, simply by adjusting a persons tax liability. in the very first instance of the oral argument, chief roberts dropped some hints that he may see this as an exercising of a taxing power. so he could be simultaneously modest in terms of deferring to the political branches, he could lay new limits on the commerce power as he did speaking only fo...

world heard of osama bin laden there was shake omar, a blind egyptian cler irk who was the spiritual leaders of the 1993 world trade center bombers. he was later convicted of plotting to blow up other new york city landmarks and is serving a life sentence in the u.s. but now a surprise development. egypts first democratically elected president, who will be sworn in tomorrow, is vowing to free him whom he calls a political prisoner. our cnn senior international correspondent, dan rivers...