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2 Dec 2010, 8:29 pm
(Ilya Somin) In his response to my post on why going without health insurance doesn’t qualify as an “activity” that Congress can regulate under the Commerce Clause, Orin Kerr claims that my reasoning “begins with an assumption as to how much power Congress has, and he then reasons backwards to infer the meaning of ‘activity’ in order to make that assumption correct. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 7:59 pm
(Ilya Somin) Affirmative action isn’t exactly an issue that brings people together across ideological lines. [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 12:38 am
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger Randy Barnett’s proposed Repeal Amendment has generated a great deal of controversy. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 7:40 pm
(Ilya Somin) Most sports fans are currently watching the NCAA basketball championship game. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 4:51 pm
(Ilya Somin) Some critics of Cato’s stance in the Cato v. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 5:35 pm
(Ilya Somin) Economist Joshua Hall has an interesting article describing an oft-ignored, but very important expansion of freedom over the last several decades: the declining use of military conscription. [read post]
9 May 2012, 12:06 pm
(Ilya Somin) The New York Times has an article describing how the TransCanada corporation is using eminent domain to forcibly acquire property to build the Keystone oil pipeline: When the TransCanada men first came, Julia Trigg Crawford said, they were polite. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 9:11 pm
(Ilya Somin) Yale law professor Akhil Amar is one of the truly great constitutional law scholars of his generation, and I benefited enormously from taking his classes when I was in law school. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 12:44 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Occupy Wall Street movement is often seen as a left-wing counterpart to the Tea Party movement. [read post]
23 Nov 2010, 2:53 pm
(Ilya Somin) Kelo v. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 7:30 am
(Ilya Somin) In all the hoopla over the individual mandate, most people (myself emphatically included) have not devoted enough attention to the other big Obamacare case before the Court: the 26 states’ challenge to to the part of the act requiring the states to massively expand Medicaid coverage (covering every non-elderly with an income up to 138% of the poverty line) or face the loss of all their federal Medicaid funds. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 10:07 pm
(Ilya Somin) I recognize that I have been somewhat derelict in failing to post additional commentary on the Eleventh Circuit’s important decision striking down the individual mandate. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 10:21 pm
(Ilya Somin) USA Today recently published an article lamenting the supposedly low percentage of African-American players in major league baseball: Major League Baseball is celebrating Jackie Robinson Day today. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 11:56 am
(Ilya Somin) To me, the most disappointing of the many electoral results this Tuesday was the relatively narrow (54–46) defeat of California Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization initiative that I and and many other VCers endorsed. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 7:30 pm
(Ilya Somin) It hasn’t made too many national headlines. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 7:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) Yesterday, the Supreme Court refused to hear United States v. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 12:21 am
(Ilya Somin) Kashmir Hill and David Lat of Above the Law have an interesting Washington Post column urging Justice Clarence Thomas to run for president. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 8:46 pm
(Ilya Somin) Last year, Dinesh D’Souza made waves by claiming that Barack Obama’s left-wing ideology and policies can be explained by his “anti-colonial” attitudes, traceable to his father’s Kenyan background. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 7:09 pm
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger David Bernstein links to Polish Jewish scholar Stanislaw Krajewski’s article on the relationship between Jews and communism in Eastern Europe. [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 7:31 am
(Over at Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin finds this groundswell of state opposition to the constitutionality of the act remarkable and even unprecedented. [read post]
