Increasingly, Congress writes sweeping, big-picture legislation (think Obamacare) and gives regulatory agencies a free hand to fill in the details. Meanwhile, it’s the agency-written rules and ...

Mr. Millman has written extensively about politics, policy and culture, and writes the newsletter Gideon’s Substack. Last week’s Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection ...

"The administrative state is the leading threat to civil liberties of our era," says Philip Hamburger, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and author of the recent ...

For decades there have been concerns about the federal government’s growing power, size and cost. But nothing has been done to address it. It just expands. Why? Is it an uncontrollable deep state, an ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court will help determine the advance of the conservative push called the "war on the administrative state" that aims to weaken federal ...

Thursday morning, the Supreme Court released its ruling on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, a case largely focused on federal agencies’ power to make and enforce policy. Blake Emerson, ...

For the past couple of years I’ve been emphasizing the usefulness of an executive order from President Donald Trump on regulatory "guidance documents" to bridge the gap between the president's initial ...

On November 1, a group of legal experts joined AEI’s J. Joel Alicea and Adam J. White for a discussion on the moral legitimacy of the modern administrative state. Paul J. Ray of the Thomas A. Roe ...

"The administrative state is the leading threat to civil liberties of our era," says Philip Hamburger, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and author of the recent ...