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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Administrative statists have floated a false narrative about the many indisputably important administrative law cases pending at the U.S. Supreme Court this term. With at least half a dozen such cases ...

"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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. For the past couple of years I’ve been emphasizing the ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority could use an obscure legal doctrine to permanently kneecap the ability of progressives to govern. The nondelegation doctrine, unlike most legal concepts, is ...

In his Q&A at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 24, Stephen K. Bannon—former Breitbart editor and now President Donald J. Trump’s chief strategist—said that one of the chief ...

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 ...

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“The cost of government extends well beyond what Washington taxes,” the report began. “Federal regulations add another $1.939 trillion to Americans’ annual burden.” Worse, “many crisis regulations ...

Reporting from Washington — President Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, asserted a bold goal recently, sounding as if he were pitching a plot of an action thriller: “deconstruction of the ...