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 ...

The dormant Commerce Clause is one of the oldest constitutional doctrines, dating to the early 1800s. The Commerce Clause of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to regulate interstate ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roscoe Filburn owned a wheat farm in rural Montgomery County, Ohio. When he used his own farm to feed his own family, he fell ...

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 ...

Jefferson Packing House, an Oregon-based cannabis distribution company, has retracted its federal lawsuit challenging the state's ban on the interstate trade of marijuana. Launched in late 2022, ...

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 ...

On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the argument of the plaintiff and its amici and reversed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway, 600 U.S. ___ ...

It is a basic, intuitive, premise of our federal system that each state makes law for that states and not the other states. To steal an example from Professor Don Regan, even if the state of Michigan ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down protectionist state wine and liquor laws on the grounds that they illegally discriminated against out-of-state wineries and out-of-state alcohol retailers. Yet ...

It is a harrowing time for defenders of the First Amendment and the Commerce Clause. This week, assaults on both provisions of our nation’s founding document were under way, at both the state and ...