NSCLC Article Quoted in the New Republic

Published on 2008/04/07

An article in the current issue of the New Republic quotes a recent article by NSCLC's Simon Lazarus and Harper Jean Tobin. An article from the current issue of the New Republic, legal author Jeffrey Rosen quotes an article by NSCLC attorneys Simon Lazarus and Harper Jean Tobin. In "States of Nature: How George Bush's legal war against the environment backfired," Rosen writes:

Scalia's rejection of the states'-rights argument didn't mean he was sympathetic to environmental regulations; it meant he was intellectually flexible about how to attack them. As early as 1982, Scalia, then teaching at the University of Chicago, had urged conservatives not to be blinded by their nostalgic devotion to states' rights and instead to fight a "two-front war" against meddlesome regulations at the state and federal levels. In defense of "market freedom," he said, conservatives should oppose regulation by the federal government, but they should have no compunction about supporting broad federal authority to block regulations by state governments, according to a recent article by Simon Lazarus and Harper Jean Tobin in The American Prospect.

Read Rosen's article on the New Republic site

Read "Justice Scalia's Two-Front War," by Simon Lazarus and Harper Jean Tobin, from the American Prospect, March 2008