Fifth Circuit will review if law barring felons from possessing guns is federal overreach

A federal appeals court will examine whether a federal law barring felons from possessing firearms exceeds the federal ...

Heeding Thomas' Call? Full 5th Circuit to Hear Gun Possession Ban Challenge

The full New Orleans-based court on Monday agreed to consider convicted drug trafficker Curtis Squire’s argument that the Gun ...
Yahoo

Gibbons v. Ogden: Defining Congress’ power under the Commerce Clause

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 ...
Education Week

The Commerce Clause and the Gun-Free School Zones Act

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, ...
Forbes

How US Constitution's Dormant Commerce Clause Is Challenging Marijuana Legislations

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

A Judge’s Toast to the Commerce Clause

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 Atlantic

Reality Check: A Look at What the Commerce Clause Actually Says

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 ...
Reason

Five Justices Rejected the Government's Commerce Clause Theory. Does that Count as a Legal Precedent?

While Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Supreme Court's liberals today in order to uphold ObamaCare's health insurance mandate under Congress' power to "lay and collect Taxes," Roberts also ...
The New York Times

Revisiting the Constitution: Amend the Commerce Clause

Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse professor of legal theory at Georgetown Law Center and the author of “Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty.” He represented the ...
Forbes

Justice Roberts and the Commerce Clause: Did He Open a New Path for an Activist Congress?

This is a guest post by Veta T. Richardson, the president and chief executive officer of the Association of Corporate Counsel, a global bar association headquartered in Washington that is dedicated ...
National Review

There’s a Limit on the Commerce Clause

Another ‘Elephants Are Persons’ Lawsuit Goes to a State Supreme Court Refunding Planned Parenthood in America? My Astonishing Oregon Trail In California, the Damage of the ‘Billionaire Tax’ Has ...
The New York Times

Revisiting the Constitution: Amend the Commerce Clause

Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse professor of legal theory at Georgetown Law Center and the author of “Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty.” He represented the ...