In Defense of the Elastic Clause of the Constitution

From my speech in Atlanta last week at PJ Media:

I recently spoke at Emory University where one student defended all of President Obama’s unconstitutional actions by invoking the Elastic Clause of the Constitution.
Citing the Elastic Clause could well justify a wide range of administration actions, except for one problem – it doesn’t exist.

But you couldn’t tell that to the student at Emory University who came to my speech on Obama abuses of power in Atlanta last week. He persisted in defending the actions through the Elastic Clause, as if the be-all, end-all provision was common knowledge.


From the sound of it, the Elastic Clause must be common knowledge in faculty lounges.