…that case would conflict in part with the anti-states’-rights ruling they wanted to issue in the affirmative action case. And–for obvious reasons–campaign and election law trumps affirmative action law in…

…collateral damage in this mindless dragnet? Of course, the mindlessness, like the mindless terrorism of the Stalin purges, is part of the logic. “Megan Kludt, a Massachusetts immigration attorney, described…

…both the Commerce power and the taxing power—and that under a federal “jurisdictional” statute known as the Tax Anti-Injunction Act, which bars the courts from hearing a constitutional challenge to…

…being the interesting part of this. The statutory reason is his interpretation of a federal court-jurisdiction statute called the Anti-Injunction Act and of the legal nature of the mandate provision….

…national security. “The federal government used to prioritize domestic terrorism, and now it’s like domestic terrorism just went away overnight,” Nessel told the audience. “I don’t think that we’re going…

…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…

…foreign policy) or in which a federal statute indicates Congress’s intent to make federal statute the sole arbiter in that area of policy. On the only remaining major provision—which appears…

…statute that criminalized flag burning. (Notably, Scalia and Stevens swapped ideological roles in that case, with Stevens voting to uphold the law and Scalia providing the fifth vote to strike…

…provision from the rest of the statute. But I’d written my post on Tuesday, in anticipation of the oral argument, and posted it on my blog that day. But from…

…by the Constitution do not depend for their breadth or effect upon a statute. The right to speak freely, without government interference, exists independent of a statute that gives you…