Renewed attacks on the Court"s "activist" federalism decisions provide occasion to examine the impact of the justices" statutory decisions on federalism.

State bankruptcy must serve to break the stranglehold of public-sector unions over state politics and budgets; help restore the federal government's precommitment against bailing out states; and advance, rather than distract from, the far more fundamental federalism reforms that will be required over the coming years.

Cases that will have profound effects on ObamaCare's future are already pending before the Supreme Court. The justices will get these cases right.

The states' fiscal crisis is structural, not cyclical. Real recovery and reform will require drastic changes to our federal architecture.

Repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will not be enough, for a simple reason: Although Obamacare would worsen many of the problems with our system of health-care financing, that system clearly does call out for serious reform.

Following a defeat in Citizens United, the Obama administration is making an unprecedented assault on free speech through a proposed executive order requiring federal bidders to disclose their political giving during the previous two years.

What is behind all the confusion concerning Chief Justice John Roberts's recent seizure?

Lost in the debate over SCHIP reauthorization is the effect that creating an open-ended entitlement will have on states' incentives to spend money that may leave poor states behind.