…the air travel sector, Congress’s tendency to meddle is also readily apparent in the existence of the so-called “Wright amendment.” This federal rule restricts flights into and out of Love…

…to have a vote soon on a constitutional amendment that would require the government to balance the budget by 2010, except if the country is at war. That proposed amendment…

…huge and meaningful campaign finance reform, because you’ll be cutting the demand for political money. First amendment problems? Sure – huge ones. Which is why I don’t see it happening…

Thou Shall Not Violate the First Amendment in Alabama Earlier, talking about the recent sodomy case and the upcoming Pledge of Allegiance case, I speculated that “if something is constitutionally…

…Amendment, the interaction of which with the “necessary and proper” clause has been the subject of debate from the earliest days of the Constitution to the present. Madison, Jay, and…

A New Trend? Maybe this will lead to a First Amendment challenge of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Here’s the highlight: U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it had seized…

…because voters can’t distinguish between economic libertarianism and civil rights libertarianism of the First Amendment and Due Process variety. And this must be so, because within just 24 hours after…

…a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. The Fifth Amendment doesn’t expressly require due process for states, as it does for “persons,” and has never before been held to…

…During the argument in Shelby County, Kennedy made two things clear: First, that states are people, too (just like corporations!), and therefore are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection…

…Clapper v. Amnesty International, the court denied a constitutional challenge to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which vastly expanded the National Security Agency’s surveillance powers. This law authorizes the…