Today 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 ...
When the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments over the next three days in cases challenging President Obama’s national health care law, justices will wrestle with a number of complex constitutional ...
Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration that cannabis be rescheduled on the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) from a I to a III. At the ...
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 ...
When the Supreme Court hears arguments on Obamacare, you are likely to hear the names of several Supreme Court cases related to Congress’s power to regulate Interstate commerce. Wickard v. Filburn ...
Roscoe Filburn owned a wheat farm in rural Montgomery County, Ohio. When he used his own farm to feed his own family, he fell under the hammer of the federal government. It was 1938, and America was ...
Few areas of law have been able to expose the contradictions of federal cannabis policy quite like the Dormant Commerce Clause. The Constitution’s long-standing rule against state economic ...