National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

Can You Have One Without The Other?

An interesting legal argument emerges in this Wall Street Journal piece about the impact of President Obama’s decision to suspend the employer mandate in ObamaCare. The writers– David B. Rivkin…

Heritage expert explores the Voting Rights Act case

Hans von Spakovsky explains for National Review Online readers why he believes Justices Roberts and Scalia were right to raise questions about the future of a controversial piece of the…

Justice Scalia Is Being Kind

This week, Justice Antonin Scalia finally commented on colleague John Roberts’ ObamaCare decision. “I was disappointed it came out the way it did,” he said, the first time he expressed…

Clever wimp or judicial statesman?

You might remember John Hood’s recent column describing U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts as a clever wimp in the wake of his surprise ruling this summer in the case challenging…

Tax reform, school choice, health care ruling attract researchers’ attention

Before hitting the road to join most of his research staff colleagues at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, Roy Cordato discussed his ideas…

This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the federal health care law, what does that ruling mean for North Carolina? John Hood addresses that question during the next edition…

Peter Ferrara: We need a health care liberation movement

Peter Ferrara has written an extremely hard-hitting piece, first eviscerating the Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare, then arguing that those of us who don’t want a politicized, bureaucratic medical care…

Mark Levin vs George Will on the Roberts Decision

The Rule that Roberts Ordered

According to John Roberts and Co., refraining from behavior is a taxable non-event. So don’t just stand there do something. And if you do just stand there you can be…

Dissenting justices defend federalism

Passage from the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (Obamacare) dissenting opinion: The case is easy and straightforward, however, in another respect. What is absolutely clear, affirmed by the…

Commerce Clause gives no license to regulate from cradle to grave

More comments from Chief Justice Roberts on the limits of the Commerce Clause in the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (Obamacare) decision: Everyone will likely participate in the…

Obamacare: Roberts on the limits of the Commerce Clause

Chief Justice Roberts comments on the limits of the Commerce Clause in the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (Obamacare) decision: People, for reasons of their own, often fail…