In a recent comment-thread I cited William Voegeli’s opinion that liberalism admits of “no limiting principle’ regarding what government can and should do. Indeed, one of our own more liberal commenters assured us not long ago that the bulging Constitutional aneurysm commonly known as the Commerce Clause is, in his opinion, “infinitely elastic”.
We will have another test of this shortly, it seems, and not a moment too soon: two important briefs (you can read them here and here) were filed today in the ongoing legal struggle against Obamacare.
More here.