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The Federalist Society

Court Holds the Corporate Transparency Act Is Unconstitutional: A Victory for Limited Government and the Right to Privacy

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/17/2024

Earlier this month, a federal district court judge issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a law that requires new…

Business and Government

DC Journal

Point: The Supreme Court Is Empowering Voters

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 10/03/2024

The Supreme Court’s recent term signaled a monumental shift toward liberty as it rolled back the unchecked power of federal agencies and reaffirmed the constitutional…

Business and Government

The Federalist Society

Federal Court Recognizes Limits to Federal Power Over At-Home Distilling

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 09/16/2024

What are the limits of the federal government’s powers? That critical question has been debated since the nation’s Founding, and a recent federal court decision…

Business and Government

National Review

Congress Must Restore the Power of the Purse It Gave Away

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 06/12/2024

One of the most recent decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court is also one of the most disastrous for democratic self-government. The Court’s ruling in …

Law and Litigation

Frederick News Post

A new proposal for constitutional restoration

  • By: Dan Greenberg, Devin Watkins
  • 09/16/2023

Now that Congress has gotten past debt-ceiling drama, next up is wrangling the nation’s budget for the coming year. A budget is about policy and…

Regulatory Reform

Inside Sources

Why the CFPB Is at Death’s Door

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 11/13/2022

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…

Banking and Finance

The Washington Examiner

OSHA Cannot Constitutionally Coerce People into Vaccinations

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 09/15/2021

President Joe Biden says he will have federal regulators make employers require workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, or else they’ll…

Health and Safety

The Daily Press

Moderate Decisions Could Prompt GOP to Rethink Court Nominations

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 07/11/2021

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…

Legal Studies

Inside Sources

Counterpoint: Fix the Court, but Justice Should Not Be Random

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 02/19/2021

Calls for “judicial reform” have too often been code for seeking changes to the courts for partisan advantage. This is why “reform” is rarely accomplished.

Law and Litigation

USA Today

Invalidate Entire Affordable Care Act

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 11/09/2020

The fate of former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act is, once again, before the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, the justices will hear arguments in…

Health and Safety

The Wall Street Journal

The Incredible Shrinking Quorum

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 05/28/2020

How can Congress do its work in a time of social distancing? The Senate has remained in session as usual, but the House took steps…

Regulatory Reform

Inside Sources

Consumer Choice Is Not Elitist

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 08/07/2019

Rep. Frank Pallone, D-New Jersey, thinks it’s fine that your new dishwasher takes more than 2 hours to complete a cycle — we think consumers…

Consumer Freedom

Inside Sources

Consumer Choice Is Not Elitist

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 08/07/2019

Rep. Frank Pallone, D-New Jersey, thinks it’s fine that your new dishwasher takes more than 2 hours to complete a cycle — we think consumers…

Consumer Choice

Law & Liberty

The Unenumerated Rights of the Privileges or Immunities Clause

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 03/27/2019

Does the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause include unenumerated rights, like the right to earn an honest living or make contracts? Professor Kurt Lash…

Law and Litigation

The Washington Examiner

Why Trump’s Border Wall National Emergency is Constitutional

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 02/21/2019

Democratic congressional leaders claim President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency to spend additional money on a border wall is unlawful, with some even saying this maneuver looks more like…

Law and Litigation

Real Clear Policy

Can DOJ Define the Crimes It Prosecutes? The Court Must Decide.

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 10/29/2018

Herman Avery Gundy was convicted of sexual assault in Maryland and served time in the state’s prison system. After his prison term ended, Gundy failed…

Law and Litigation

RealClear Policy

Can DOJ Define the Crimes It Prosecutes? The Court Must Decide.

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 10/26/2018

Herman Avery Gundy was convicted of sexual assault in Maryland and served time in the state’s prison system. After his prison term ended, Gundy failed…

Inside Sources

Freedom of Speech Should Protect All Opinion

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 03/09/2018

President Trump has called this country’s libel laws a sham and a disgrace and said he wants to change libel laws to allow liability for…

Free Speech

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