New at Reason: Damon Root on Putting a Stop to Congressional Overreach

November 13, 2009

In early September, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, told Fox News host Andrew Napolitano that, "There's nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do." Unfortunately, writes Associate Editor Damon W. Root, Clyburn was all too correct. Congress routinely oversteps its constitutional bounds. But as Root notes, the Supreme Court will soon have a perfect opportunity to rein Clyburn and his colleagues back in with the case of U.S. v. Comstock.

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