Update: Smokey and the Bandits in WSJ
This morning’s Wall Street Journal brought the delightful column Tobacco Deal-Breaker? (August 19, 2005). The Journal summarized the CEI lawsuit and the MSA, “Constitutional challenges are always tough. And given that tobacco companies, states and public-health advocates — who were also bought off in the MSA — will align to protect their lucrative arrangement, success is a long shot. But there are good reasons — not least the doctrine of constitutional federalism that has served our system of government well — to hope it succeeds.”
Perhaps that isn’t e.e. cummings, but still it is poetry to our ears.