Category: suspreme court

Property Rights Versus Labor Unions in the Supreme Court

Commentary As the Supreme Court’s recent Obamacare case illustrates, the justices no longer enforce most of the Constitution’s limits on the federal government. But a new property rights decision demonstrates how they are super-enforcing the Bill of Rights. First some background: The state and federal (pdf) governments inherited from Great Britain power to condemn (seize)…


Justice Alito Says ‘Not Surprised’ by Reaction to His Comments About Pandemic Restrictions

Associate Justice Samuel Alito said on Sunday that he was “not surprised” by the reaction to comments he made last year about state restrictions in response to the CCP virus pandemic. Alito, 70, told a Federalist Society virtual convention last November that he thought the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic serves as a “sort of…