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INTRODUCTION
I am not the first, nor will I be the last, person within the legal profession to look down on legislative history as a tool of statutory interpretation. The late Justice Scalia famously derided the use of legislative history, calling it illegitimate. His distaste for modern legislative history was so strong he famously refused

INTRODUCTION
The United States needs a clearer guiding framework regarding which Officers are principal and which are inferior. Modern Appointments Clause jurisprudence is, at best, confusing and, at worst, incoherent. This is both the result and cause of sloppy legislative crafting and an overexpanded administrative state, and the Court is reluctant to create a firm

The House of Representatives voted 245-182 on Tuesday to overturn President Trump’s national emergency declaration to fund his long-promised border wall.[1] This is the latest of several efforts by Congress to rescind executive action via joint resolutions of disapproval. Last year, Congress tried to rein in executive overreach through unsuccessful attempts to amend Section

On Wednesday, October 3, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Knick v. Township of Scott, to decide “[w]hether the Court should reconsider the portion of Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172, 194-96 (1985), requiring property owners to exhaust state court remedies to ripen federal takings claims . .

“I’m not a skeptic of regulation at all. I am a skeptic of unauthorized regulation, of illegal regulation, or regulation that’s outside the bounds of what the laws passed by Congress have said. And that is what is at the root of our administrative law jurisprudence.”
-Judge Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sept.

For the 2020 census, the Department of Commerce has proposed asking respondents whether they are citizens of the United States. Since inclusion of the citizenship question was announced in March, six federal lawsuits have been filed demanding that judges stop the Department of Commerce from asking on the 2020 census about respondents’ citizenship. A judicial