Dec 17 2024 Topics Federal Courts • Litigation • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post Court Holds the Corporate Transparency Act Is Unconstitutional: A Victory for Limited Government and the Right to Privacy Devin Watkins Earlier this month, a federal district court judge issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement...
Sep 16 2024 Topics Federal Courts • Litigation • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post Federal Court Recognizes Limits to Federal Power Over At-Home Distilling Devin Watkins What are the limits of the federal government’s powers? That critical question has been debated...
Sep 13 2024 Topics Federal Courts • Litigation • Professional Responsibility & Legal Education • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post Is the Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional?: Government Appeals a District Court Ruling That Said “Yes,” With More Challenges In Progress John J. Park On March 1, 2024, Judge Liles Burke in the Northern District of Alabama held in...
Aug 12 2024 Publication Federalist Society Review Declaring Independence to Secure Integrity: The Supreme Court Justices' Code of Conduct Michael S. McGinniss [T]he judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power; that it...
Jul 16 2024 Topics Founding Era & History • Supreme Court Blog Post Moore v. United States and the Uncertainty About “Direct” and “Indirect” Taxes Robert G. Natelson Our Constitution distinguishes between direct and indirect taxes. Indirect tax rates must be uniform throughout...
Oct 20 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review The False Doctrine of Inherent Sovereign Authority Robert G. Natelson This essay examines the hypothesis that the federal government and its departments and officials hold...
Aug 17 2023 Topics Constitution • Federalism Blog Post A Federal Gestational Age Abortion Ban is the Wrong (and Unconstitutional) Hill for the Pro-Life Movement to Die On William Hodes In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, decided in June 2022, the Supreme Court overruled...
Feb 1 2023 Topics Supreme Court Blog Post News The Chief Justice at His Best and Worst Giancarlo Canaparo Sometimes Chief Justice John Roberts writes beautifully. When he does, his writing is understated; he...
Dec 15 2022 Publication Federalist Society Review The Meaning of "Regulate Commerce" to the Constitution's Ratifiers Robert G. Natelson I. Previous Scholarship[1] A. Views of “Commerce”: Traditional and “Mega” The Constitution grants Congress power...
Sep 9 2021 Topics Election Law Blog Post News Voting News: The 11th Circuit Holds That Postage to Mail Ballots Is Not an Unconstitutional Poll Tax Eric Yesner In the State of Georgia, voters must pay for postage when submitting mail-in and absentee...
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Court Holds the Corporate Transparency Act Is Unconstitutional: A Victory for Limited Government and the Right to Privacy
Earlier this month, a federal district court judge issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement...
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Federal Court Recognizes Limits to Federal Power Over At-Home Distilling
What are the limits of the federal government’s powers? That critical question has been debated...
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Is the Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional?: Government Appeals a District Court Ruling That Said “Yes,” With More Challenges In Progress
On March 1, 2024, Judge Liles Burke in the Northern District of Alabama held in...
Declaring Independence to Secure Integrity: The Supreme Court Justices' Code of Conduct
Michael S. McGinniss
[T]he judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power; that it...
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Moore v. United States and the Uncertainty About “Direct” and “Indirect” Taxes
Our Constitution distinguishes between direct and indirect taxes. Indirect tax rates must be uniform throughout...
The False Doctrine of Inherent Sovereign Authority
Robert G. Natelson
This essay examines the hypothesis that the federal government and its departments and officials hold...
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A Federal Gestational Age Abortion Ban is the Wrong (and Unconstitutional) Hill for the Pro-Life Movement to Die On
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, decided in June 2022, the Supreme Court overruled...
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The Chief Justice at His Best and Worst
Sometimes Chief Justice John Roberts writes beautifully. When he does, his writing is understated; he...
The Meaning of "Regulate Commerce" to the Constitution's Ratifiers
Robert G. Natelson
I. Previous Scholarship[1] A. Views of “Commerce”: Traditional and “Mega” The Constitution grants Congress power...
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Voting News: The 11th Circuit Holds That Postage to Mail Ballots Is Not an Unconstitutional Poll Tax
In the State of Georgia, voters must pay for postage when submitting mail-in and absentee...