Federalism
Tom Cotton’s 2020 riot-busting dream is coming to fruition in L.A.
Five years ago last Tuesday, The New York Times, after considerable internal turmoil, published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R–Ark.) advocating that the federal government unilaterally send military troops to quell the riots…
First Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Federal Marijuana Prohibition
In 2005, in Gonzales v. Raich, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the federal prohibition of the cultivation, distribution, and possession of marijuana, even where legal under state law for medicinal…
Mitchell Berman on Conditional Federal Grants and the Constitution
Because foreign nations have no constitutional rights, but American universities, lawyers, journalists and states do — rights protected by the First, Fifth, Sixth and Tenth Amendments. Trump's efforts to leverage…
The American dream has migrated South
Why did the Rust Belt really lose its manufacturing base? Middlebury College political scientist Gary Winslett has a provocative answer: It wasn't China or robots. It was Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, and Florida. In a…
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