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Supreme Errors   Share In the wake of my last commentary on the horrendous Supreme Court decision upholding Obama's health care plan, several people have pointed out that I erred in saying that the income tax is a "direct tax." While it is technically correct that the Court ultimately declared it to be an excise, not a direct tax, it is important to understand how it arrived at that opinion and why the decision has no practical relevance to the way the tax has been enforced.  Just as it has done with Obamacare, the Court came up with a technically constitutional pathway to allow the gover...

In this week’s edition: House passes Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act to protect proceeds from state-legal cannabis businesses from operation of money laundering laws, but has an unclear path in the Senate Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Sens. Booker and Wyden expected to introduce comprehensive cannabis reform legislation over objections from some Democratic colleagues Adult-use cannabis now legal in 17 US states, including, most recently, in New York, New Mexico and Virginia Florida Supreme Court strikes down ballot initiative that would have allowed Floridians to vote to...

The Atlantic Tight security harms the daily functioning of the legislative branch. February 10, 2021 May-Ying Lam / Redux Even after the 7,000 National Guard troops currently deployed around the United States Capitol pack up following the impeachment trial, the Hill will not be returning to normal. “We must harden this campus,” House Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett warned in a closed Appropriations Committee session late last month. Yogananda Pittman, the acting chief of the Capitol Police, recently called for “vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure.” Those plans�...