September 13, 2010

ObamaCare's Fatal Flaw?

Scott Brown's election could be the most significant turning point in the whole ObamaCare fiasco. And not because it was an "expression of the will of the people," because, as we've learned, that doesn't matter to our Washington overlords. ...

May 20, 2010

Federal Immigration Law Is Obsolete

A few weeks ago, a caller to Rush's show raised an intriguing question about the Arizona immigration law. To paraphrase the caller: We have federal laws against kidnapping and robbery, yet nobody complains when the states enforce those state laws. Wh...

April 12, 2010

DOE's Search and Seizure

The feds are coming to inspect your home if you want to sell it, according to regulations buried in cap-and-trade legislation and standards decreed by the Secretary of Energy. But there are numerous legal difficulties inherent in DOE "inspection...

April 3, 2010

The Commerce Clause Trap

A frontal assault on the commerce clause by ObamaCare opponents is a losing proposition. The argument: the federal government cannot regulate such-and-such because it is not interstate commerce. But all it takes to defeat that argument is one finding...

March 26, 2010

No Limits on Federal Power?

We're going to be hearing a lot about the commerce clause, the dormant commerce clause, and preemption thanks to anti-federal health care lawsuits by state attorney generals. If they rely on the standard arguments made in such cases, they (and we) wi...