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June 3, 2010

“The long, hot summer of corruption”

At least, that’s what Michelle Malkin calls it. Flannery O’Connor, were she still alive, might have called it “A Good Man is (Still) Hard to Find.” God rest her perceptive soul.

“Justice Needs More Time”

I’ve already detailed how the ever-malleable Commerce Clause, after Raich, could hurt constitutional challenges to ObamaCare — though I suspect this time around Scalia would be less enthusiastic about its expansion, and so would walk back prior reasoning. Obama’s Justice Department likely realizes this as well, which is why they hope to delay any kind of legal ruling until after the November elections. Happily for classical liberalism, the Justice Department

Well, at least they aren’t racist…

John Judis, TNR: If the Tea Party movement, with its fanatic libertarianism and selfish individualism, were to gain any measure of power, it would wreak havoc on the economy (imagine America without a Federal Reserve System), shred the social safety net, and undermine what exists of the great American community. So I am not suggesting, as Christopher Caldwell did in the Financial Times, that “the Tea Party has no explicit