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Agencies Are Limited in Which Congressional Power They Can Exercise

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Agencies Are Limited in Which Congressional Power They Can Exercise

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/13/2022

Can unelected federal bureaucrats force people to hire police to ensure that the law is complied with—even if Congress never said anything about hiring cops…

Legal

More on Moore: A History of Direct Taxes and their Application to Moore v. United States

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More on Moore: A History of Direct Taxes and their Application to Moore v. United States

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/02/2022

Many politicians, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), advocate taxes on wealth. These taxes are easy to abuse, which is why the Founders placed…

Legal

Ninth Circuit Refuses to Reconsider Allowing Wealth Taxes

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Ninth Circuit Refuses to Reconsider Allowing Wealth Taxes

  • By: Dan Greenberg, Devin Watkins
  • 11/23/2022

Moore v. United States—a case in which CEI represents the Moore family—is likely to be the most important tax case of the 21st century. Yesterday’s…

Legal

Government May Not Avoid Just Compensation in Debt Seizures

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Government May Not Avoid Just Compensation in Debt Seizures

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 09/26/2022

Some state governments have been acting as if the Fifth Amendment’s requirement of just compensation doesn’t apply in the course of collection of government debts.

Legal

Congress Must Decide How to Choose Between Courts and Agency Adjudication

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Congress Must Decide How to Choose Between Courts and Agency Adjudication

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 05/26/2022

For some time, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has had a choice of prosecutorial forums. It has been able to choose between prosecuting violators…

Legal

Fifth Circuit Upholds the Right to A Jury Trial Against the SEC

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Fifth Circuit Upholds the Right to A Jury Trial Against the SEC

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 05/19/2022

John Thomas Financial CEO Thomas Belesis was riding high, having been awarded the 2011 Businessman of the Year Award from the New York Republicans. While…

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Peer Review for Thee but Not for Me

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Peer Review for Thee but Not for Me

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 04/22/2022

In February 2017, the Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. CEI explained in detail…

Legal

Federal Judge Invalidates Federal Mask Mandate

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Federal Judge Invalidates Federal Mask Mandate

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 04/18/2022

For over a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has threatened criminal and civil penalties and mandatory removal for not wearing a…

Legal

CEI Submits Appeal of Lack of Peer Review for EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

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CEI Submits Appeal of Lack of Peer Review for EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 03/11/2022

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases on procedural grounds. This is the document which supposedly…

Energy and Environment

Judge Cain’s Injunction Concerning Social Cost of Carbon Is Reasonable

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Judge Cain’s Injunction Concerning Social Cost of Carbon Is Reasonable

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 02/23/2022

Jonathan Adler’s recent article on a preliminary injunction by Judge James D. Cain makes it sound like it’s crazy, but I’m afraid that…

Energy and Environment

CEI in Amicus Brief Asks Supreme Court to Block the Clean Power Plan that Congress Rejected

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CEI in Amicus Brief Asks Supreme Court to Block the Clean Power Plan that Congress Rejected

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/21/2021

People often talk about the undemocratic and illegitimate administrative state, of which the Clean Power Plan (CPP) is the perfect example. The Supreme Court will…

Legal

Request to OIRA to Ensure Peer Review of Agency’s Medical Marijuana Claims

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Request to OIRA to Ensure Peer Review of Agency’s Medical Marijuana Claims

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/01/2021

For two years, CEI has been trying to get the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to conduct…

Consumer Freedom

Another Court Rejects Federal Attempt to Impose a Vaccine Mandate

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Another Court Rejects Federal Attempt to Impose a Vaccine Mandate

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 11/29/2021

Shortly following the Fifth Circuit blocking the private employer mandate from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Judge Matthew Schelp of the Eastern…

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CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Extension Another Example of Ends-Justify-the-Means Policy

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CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Extension Another Example of Ends-Justify-the-Means Policy

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 08/04/2021

The Constitution requires all of Congress and the president to swear to uphold the Constitution. Yet, too often today, public officials of both parties ignore…

Legal

Supreme Court Requires Involvement of Principal Officers Before Final Decisions

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Supreme Court Requires Involvement of Principal Officers Before Final Decisions

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 06/21/2021

Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision in United States v. Arthrex that has massive implications for the limits on the administrative state. It…

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Judge Rules in Favor of Retroactive Unapportioned Tax

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Judge Rules in Favor of Retroactive Unapportioned Tax

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 11/20/2020

In 2006, Charles and Kathleen Moore invested in a business aimed at providing affordable equipment to small-scale Indian farmers. No dividends have been returned to…

Legal

Government Is Asking if We Want Faster and More Effective Appliances. Say Yes!

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Government Is Asking if We Want Faster and More Effective Appliances. Say Yes!

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 09/18/2020

For more than 50 years, Americans have used washing machines to clean their clothes and dryers to dry them. Manufacturers built highly effective products that…

Deregulation

CEI Opposes Federal Government Coercing a State into Assisting with Federal Law Enforcement

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CEI Opposes Federal Government Coercing a State into Assisting with Federal Law Enforcement

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 07/22/2020

Last Friday, CEI took a stand for federalism and separation of powers through an amicus brief. These constitutional principles are critical to the constitutionally limited…

Aviation

DEREGULATION IN AN EMERGENCY: The President’s Emergency Powers Include Not Just Imposing Regulations on Industry, but also Suspending Regulations

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DEREGULATION IN AN EMERGENCY: The President’s Emergency Powers Include Not Just Imposing Regulations on Industry, but also Suspending Regulations

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 04/23/2020

Across the country, governors have suspended harmful regulations on an emergency basis due to the COVID-19 crisis. The improvements that have resulted have got people…

Legal

Year in Review 2019: Supreme Court

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Year in Review 2019: Supreme Court

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/24/2019

The nature of the term ending in June 2019 was set at the end of 2018 when the cases were selected. When the term opened…

Legal

Best Books of 2019: A Republic, If You Can Keep It

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Best Books of 2019: A Republic, If You Can Keep It

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/18/2019

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch explains in vivid detail the purpose of the separation of powers in his 2019 book "A Republic, If You Can…

Legal

‘Gundy’ Decision Could Signal Fundamental Reform of Administrative State

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‘Gundy’ Decision Could Signal Fundamental Reform of Administrative State

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 06/26/2019

It is hard to describe how important the Supreme Court decision last week in Gundy v. United States is. In one sense, nothing changed—no case…

Legal

Support Builds for EPA to Reconsider Endangerment Finding

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Support Builds for EPA to Reconsider Endangerment Finding

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 04/12/2019

In the 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court held that Environmental Protection Agency had the power to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant…

Climate

Supreme Court Likely to Limit Administrative State’s Ability to Interpret Rules

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Supreme Court Likely to Limit Administrative State’s Ability to Interpret Rules

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 04/01/2019

Last week the Supreme Court heard a case on limiting the powers of the administrative state that could be one of the most important this…

Legal

News Media Go Along with Greenpeace’s Attempt to Pretend Patrick Moore Not a Founder

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News Media Go Along with Greenpeace’s Attempt to Pretend Patrick Moore Not a Founder

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 03/22/2019

For years Greenpeace has pretended that Patrick Moore was not one of the original co-founders of the radical environmental pressure group. More recently, a number of…

Climate

Agencies Failing to Follow Law on Key Financial Regulation

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Agencies Failing to Follow Law on Key Financial Regulation

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 03/12/2019

The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 is one of the worst pieces of legislation to have become law in recent history. It created the Consumer Financial…

Banking and Finance

Confusing Poll Clouds Public Perception of Trump Emergency Declaration

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Confusing Poll Clouds Public Perception of Trump Emergency Declaration

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 02/21/2019

President Trump’s national emergency declaration is constitutional, as I explained in a recent op-ed in the Washington Examiner. That’s an important fact, because we trust…

Legal

Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Soda Labeling Ban for Wrong Reasons

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Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Soda Labeling Ban for Wrong Reasons

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 02/01/2019

This week the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held unconstitutional the size requirement in San Francisco’s soda warning labeling regulation. However, there are broader…

Consumer Freedom

Warren Wealth Tax Proposal Raises Constitutional Questions

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Warren Wealth Tax Proposal Raises Constitutional Questions

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 01/25/2019

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has proposed a new wealth tax. We don’t know a lot of details on what is being proposed, but what little…

Legal

Courts Should Protect Economic Liberty Rights As Originally Understood

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Courts Should Protect Economic Liberty Rights As Originally Understood

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 01/23/2019

The prohibition on taking a person’s liberty without due process of law is enshrined in the Constitution’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. But what does this…

Legal

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  • Michelle Minton
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