Pacific Legal Foundation Launches Nondelegation Project
The Pacific Legal Foundation launched a new tool that “uses artificial intelligence to trace every federal regulation back to the law that supposedly authorizes it.”
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Pacific Legal Foundation Launches Nondelegation Project
The Pacific Legal Foundation launched a new tool that “uses artificial intelligence to trace every federal regulation back to the law that supposedly authorizes it.”
Eighth Circuit Decision Striking Down Biden EV Subsidy Highlights Loper Bright’s Impact
On Friday, in Iowa v. Wright, the Eighth Circuit vacated an April 2024 Department of Energy regulation changing how it calculated the “petroleum equivalency factor” used to determine how car and truck manufacturers can use electric vehicles to comply with Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Two months…
Senator Eric Schmitt Questions Third Circuit Nominee on Loper Impact
During yesterday’s Senate Judiciary hearing on nominations, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) questioned nominee to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit Jennifer L. Mascott on the impact of the Loper Bright decision. Video starting at 1:51:26 here.
Judge Bumatay’s Powerful Warning in Lopez v. Bondi on Loper Bright Implementation, Skidmore Deference, and Stare Decisis
This week, in Lopez v. Bondi,the Ninth Circuit denied a petition for rehearing of a panel decision upholding the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) conclusion that petty larceny convictions are “crimes of moral turpitude.” Judge Bumatay authored a dissent. While Lopez is ostensibly an immigration dispute, it may have much broader administrative law implications because…
How vague statutory language enabled the Biden administration’s CHIPS Act overreach, and what Congress must do next
My latest op-ed in the Washington Reporter uses FOIA docs from the CHIPS Act implementation to demonstrate how ambiguous laws empower unelected bureaucrats and undermine democratic accountability: When Congress rejected sweeping child care subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration’s Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo reportedly told her staff, “if Congress wasn’t going to do what they…
AFP Foundation’s Ryan Mulvey on Montana Talks with Aaron Flint
AFP Foundation Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Mulvey joined Montana Talk’s Aaron Flint live from the Western Caucus Foundation meeting to discuss Loper Bright. Featuring: Interview starts at 28:20.
Bloomberg Law Podcast Finale: After Loper Bright, Congress Weighs Sweating the Small Stuff
Bloomberg Law’s UnCommon Law podcast finishes its series on the “story behind the fishing industry’s Chevron doctrine challenge.” This episode is on: “After Loper Bright, Congress Weighs Sweating the Small Stuff”
Cert Petition to Watch: Tennessee v. Kennedy Highlights Important Loper Bright Implementation Question
A recent cert petition asking the Supreme Court to vacate the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Tennessee v. Kennedy, and remand with instructions to dismiss the case as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, highlights an important Loper Bright implementation question that the Court may need to resolve in a future case: the scope of statutory…
AFPF Files Amicus Brief to Support Vigorous Application of AFPF v. Bonta
AFPF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of petitioner, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, which is seeking to protect its donors’ privacy of against an investigatory subpoena issued by the New Jersey Attorney General. This case should be controlled by AFPF v. Bonta, in which Americans for Prosperity Foundation protected…