Abused and overworked, the Commerce Clause in Article I of the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to regulate commerce “with foreign nations the Indian Tribes [and] among the several states.” Today ...
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 ...
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 ...
[Jack Goldsmith and I will have this article out in the Texas Law Review early next year, and I'm serializing it here. There is still plenty of time for editing, so we'd love to hear any ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...