Sen. Dianne Feinstein this afternoon asked Sonia Sotomayor about cases in which the Supreme Court has struck down laws because Congress exceeded its powers under the Constitution’s commerce clause, ...

In declaring unconstitutional the new requirement for Americans to buy health insurance, federal Judge Henry Hudson rests his decision on one of the most widely applied clauses in the Constitution.

A number of U.S. states that have legalized the sale of marijuana are being sued by companies that have not entered the legal market, using the Constitution's dormant commerce clause as their basis ...

There are no words that cause raw milk advocates more heartburn than these: “The Congress shall have Power …To regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with Indian ...

David Meyers, Columbia Law School Class of 2013, worked as a staffer to President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009 and later in the US Senate. He argues that although health care reform may fit within ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Boom Reveals the Human Costs of Single-Payer Democrats Say They Want Affordable Housing. So Why Are They Killing It? The Democrats’ Patriotism Gap The Supreme Court Should ...

Two constitutional provisions at issue in the health-care challenges are the “necessary and proper” clause and the commerce clause. Necessary and proper clause: Congress has the power to "make all ...

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 ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Puerto Rican news ...

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