Backbone or Hook?

The Washington Post has an interesting editorial today on the record of Judge John Roberts. What I really found interesting was the following statement: There is really only one opinion Judge Roberts has written that potentially signals anything of serious concern, and that is the first one he wrote while on the court. The opinion is troubling because it suggests a too-narrow view of Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce — the constitutional backbone of the modern regulatory state. That is the statists’ argument in a nutshell. A very broad reading of the Commerce Clause provides the legal fig leaf … Continue reading Backbone or Hook?