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Governors pledge to oppose federal overreach — even when their party runs Washington

Democratic and Republican governors say they will more aggressively push back on federal overreach regardless of which party controls Washington. Earlier this month, the bipartisan...

Governors pledge to oppose federal overreach — even when their party runs Washington

Democratic and Republican governors say they will more aggressively push back on federal overreach regardless of which party controls Washington. Earlier this month, the bipartisan...

Governors pledge to oppose federal overreach — even when their party runs Washington

Democratic and Republican governors say they will more aggressively push back on federal overreach regardless of which party controls Washington. Earlier this month, the bipartisan...

Governors pledge to oppose federal overreach — even when their party runs Washington

Democratic and Republican governors say they will more aggressively push back on federal overreach regardless of which party controls Washington. Earlier this month, the bipartisan...

Feds Defy Supreme Court Ban On Labeling Every Puddle A ‘Protected Wetland’

SCOTUS put clear limits on federal authority to regulate wetlands, but the Army Corps of Engineers persists in throwing its weight around as if nothing had changed.

Governors and State Administration

Gubernatorial opposition is a powerful and often necessary component of meaningful state pushback against federal overreach. The post Governors and State Administration appeared fi...

States Can Fight Federal Overreach by Protecting State Data

States must be vigilant stewards of their data — auditing what they hold, limiting what they share, and enforcing legal constraints against federal overreach. The post States Can F...

Trump's Executive Order on Mail-in Ballots is an Assault on Federalism and Separation of Powers

It seeks to usurp state and congressional power over election administration.

ALEXANDER: U.S. Constitutional System of Co-federalism Collides with the Climate Hoax

I recently delved into the purpose and importance of the Separation of Powers in our constitutional scheme, and the requirement that our Legislative, Executive and Judicial branche...

BOKHARI: We Must Pace the Frontier of Government Power-Grabs

What do the Federal Reserve, the Patriot Act, Net Zero, COVID lockdown policies, foreign disinformation, and the proposed, globally-coordinated AI slowdown have in common? The post...

Small Justice Office Approves Trump’s Power Grabs

Washington Post: “As the Trump administration pushes the bounds of executive power, the Justice Department unit known as the Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC, has affirmed some of i...

Federal tactic of letting fentanyl walk faces congressional investigation

Federal tactic of letting fentanyl walk faces congressional investigation

Federal Judge Enjoins Virginia’s Anti-287(g) Law

Either the supporters of Virginia’s 287(g) law were unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution’s clearly defined restrictions on state regulation of federal activities in its sphere (in...

Democrats Revive Nullification With Refusals To Assist Federal Immigration Enforcement

What a state cannot be permitted to do is transform a policy disagreement into an exercise of state power to nullify federal authority.

Federal Preemption Takes Center Stage

Federal preemption arguments are front and center in litigation involving regulated industries. Previously a largely defensive argument, asserted only where a federal statute expre...

Gorsuch is (Partly) Right

Justice Gorsuch has made it a personal crusade to revive the nondelegation doctrine, in part because of concerns about the rising tide of presidential power.  The nondelegation doc...

Virginia AG Launches Office To Protect Illegals And Bureaucrats From Federal Accountability

On the same day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a successful operation to arrest more than 1,300 illegal aliens throughout Virginia and Maryland, Virginia Attor...

Chevron to Loper Bright: Reining in Federal Agency Overreach with the Medicare Secondary Payer Act

Lawyers who handle worker's compensation and personal injury matters regularly encounter obstacles posed by Medicare Secondary Payer compliance requirements. Congress's inaction on...

The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective

The US federal government owns and administers 472,892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower 48 states, the country’s largest landowner. The resource is held and managed a...

Trump's 50% Tariffs on Canadian Goods Illegally Rely on a Superseded Statute, a Lawsuit Argues

The import taxes fit a pattern of dubious legal rationales for the president's protectionist policies.

Ninth Circuit Freezes California’s Federal Agent ID Law in Federalism Clash

The Ninth Circuit has directed a lower court to preliminarily block California’s “No Vigilantes Act,” concluding the federal government is likely to succeed on its claim that the s...

The separation and expansion of powers between Congress and the president

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff.***This is the fourth a...

Bass, Newsom Hamstrung Local Officials for Years, So the Feds Just Stepped in to Save LA's Skid Row

The left’s constitutional hypocrisy is on full display in its war on Trump

Trump's resistance to judicial rulings on birthright citizenship and tariffs echoes Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt's departmentalist tradition.