Devin Watkins is an attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Devin Watkins previously worked at the Cato Institute as a legal associate and interned at the Institute for Justice. At the Cato Institute, Watkins worked on a variety of Supreme Court cases, and one of the briefs he worked on was cited by the Court. His op-eds have appeared in National Review Online, The Hill, Time, and The Federalist among others.
Watkins holds a Juris Doctor cum laude from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, where he was the development editor on the Mason Law Review. Prior to his legal career Watkins was a senior software developer at Intel and WebMD. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Watkins is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Bar, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Bar.
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News
Biden CFPB Asks Supreme Court to Review Ruling on Its Unconstitutionality
The Biden administration has moved to appeal an October court ruling against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a ruling that invalidated controversial restrictions on…
Court Rules CFPB Funding Structure Unconstitutional: CEI Statements
A Fifth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s unusual funding structure is unconstitutional, in a lawsuit brought by a small-dollar (payday)…
CEI Seeks Court Order on National Climate Task Force Records
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sought a court order to preserve relevant documents and other materials from the White House’s National Climate Task…
Blog
Agencies Are Limited in Which Congressional Power They Can Exercise
- By: Devin Watkins
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…
More on Moore: A History of Direct Taxes and their Application to Moore v. United States
- By: Devin Watkins
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…
Ninth Circuit Refuses to Reconsider Allowing Wealth Taxes
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…
Op-Eds/Articles
Inside Sources
Why the CFPB Is at Death’s Door
- By: Devin Watkins
President Reagan once said, “Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on…
The Washington Examiner
OSHA Cannot Constitutionally Coerce People into Vaccinations
- By: Devin Watkins
President Joe Biden says he will have federal regulators make employers require workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, or else they’ll…
The Daily Press
Moderate Decisions Could Prompt GOP to Rethink Court Nominations
- By: Devin Watkins
Justice Amy Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court would spell doom for the Affordable Care Act, Roe v. Wade, and the 2015 Obergefell ruling on…
Citations
E&E News
EPA blocks bid to review basis for climate regs
- By: Devin Watkins
E&E News cites CEI Attorney Devin Watkins on climate regulation: Several of the petitions to reopen EPA’s endangerment finding were filed in 2017 during the…
E&E News
Inside a Legal Doctrine that Could Derail Biden Climate Regs
- By: Devin Watkins
E&E News cites CEI Attorney Devin Watkins on the EPA’s new legislation outlining vehicle emissions standards: As in the Supreme Court power plant…
E&E News
Group Asks EPA to Nix Fuel Rule that Relied on Climate Metric
- By: Devin Watkins
E&E News cites Attorney Devin Watkins on the EPA’s social cost of carbon: A conservative think tank is asking EPA to reconsider its recent…