Our say: Wine ruling should make Maryland reconsider

THE CORK was barely out of the champagne bottle before Maryland wine consumers realized that this week's Supreme Court ruling on shipments of alcohol will have no effect in this state. They still won't be able to ship wine into Maryland.

The Supreme Court struck down laws in Michigan and New York that allowed wine to be shipped inside state boundaries but not from out-of-state sources. A five-justice majority held that this inconsistency is unconstitutional. By discriminating against out-of-state wine producers, the states were grabbing authority over interstate commerce that the Constitution's Commerce Clause reserves for...