How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution: 1937–1944
By Rob Natelson Crisis and Depression In October 1929, a financial bubble broke. As always happens when financial bubbles break, people lost a great deal and hardship ensued. But bubbles ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part VII: Concentration Camps and the End
By: Rob Natelson This is the last installment in a series on the nadir, or low point, of the U.S. Supreme Court. This was the period from 1937 to 1944, when ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part V: Killing Economic Freedom
By: Rob Natelson The first, second, third, and fourth installments in this series described how the Constitution established a relatively small federal government with limited powers and how President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal challenged that ...
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Record Shows Supreme Court Overwhelmingly Protects Federal Power
By: TJ Martinell One of the most prevalent political strategies is to sue and hope federal courts rein in unconstitutional federal overreach. But evidence shows it almost never turns out ...
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Restore the Republic
With the auspicious exit of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the American people have a grand opportunity — one that should be seized and not squandered. That opportunity is to ...
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Federal Judges Protect and Defend Precedent
A nominee for a seat on a U.S. Court of Appeals revealed exactly why we can’t count on federal judges to “protect and defend” the Constitution. Their commitment is to ...
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Curb on the regulatory state? Court holds corporations protected from “excessive fines”
By: Rob Natelson Governments often enforce economic regulations though fines far exceeding those imposed for truly criminal conduct. An agency may assess hundreds or even thousands of dollars for each ...
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