The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 30, 2026.(Cheney Orr/Reuters)

A core purpose of the Constitution was to protect national commerce from state governments. During the last century, however, the Supreme Court has lost sight of that purpose and vitiated the constitutional provisions that executed it. An upcoming case in which Boulder, Colo., is attempting to play global climate regulator gives the justices an opportunity to change course.

That’s what I argued a few weeks ago. Taking up these and other issues in The American Spectator, Donald Devine writes: “Even with today’s moderate judicial retreat from that earlier legal progressivism, some right-leaning intellectuals like Ramesh Ponnuru have argued that today’s court has ...

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