anti-commandeering doctrine

Turning Conservative Legal Theories Against Trump

Is the risk of legitimizing bad ideas worth it? Maybe so, under the circumstances.

Conservatives have been obsessed with the idea of a runaway federal government crushing everything in its path.  They’ve been successful in promoting ideas to rein in Leviathan, at a time when by our lights the government actually was behaving very reasonably. But now we really do have a rampaging federal government.  Conservative ideas could be very useful tools right now, and we shouldn’t hesitate to use them.

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