Courts must not help agencies to extend their powers beyond statutory and constitutional limits. But, for too long, agencies’ expansive views of their powers were assisted by judicial deference and acquiescence—at the expense of the people’s liberty and the rule of law.
March 02, 2026
Supreme Court of the United States
Under the substantial-evidence standard, executive branch agencies are given either non-executive or unilateral power, and the judicial branch is ordered to refrain from exercising judicial power. This Court should discard this system of executive adjudication followed by judicial non-adjudication because it violates the Arizona Constitution’s separation of powers and the due process of law.
December 09, 2025
Supreme Court of the State of Arizona
The political branches should not be allowed to devise a mechanism that allows them to escape political accountability. This Court should grant the petition [for certiorari] and reverse.
November 05, 2025
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Courts construe laws. But they cannot make law. A law, particularly a criminal law, must be capable of being understood by ordinary people... Accordingly, this petition presents an opportunity to do what the Court should have done in Skilling: acknowledge that repairing a statute is beyond the scope of the judicial power and send the honest services law back to Congress.
November 03, 2025
Supreme Court of the United States
If a non-delegation limit exists, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act crosses it by transferring to the President a near-total legislative power—decisions about the “important subjects”—explicitly vested in Congress by the People. The Court should say so.
October 24, 2025
Supreme Court of the United States
The Court should return to first principles and hold that the President has authority to remove principal executive officers at will, so that, consistent with the Constitution, the President has an effective check against Congress’s broad delegations of power to Executive Branch agencies.
October 17, 2025
Supreme Court of the United States
"[T]he Seventh Amendment is a constitutional protection against arbitrary government power. And critically, it is a limit on the permissible structure of an adjudicatory body—if the Seventh Amendment jury trial right applies to a claim, it must be tried in an Article III court."
September 10, 2025
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
“Zoning boards are entrusted with the limited power to decide land use applications, not to sit in judgment over their own final decisions.”
April 23, 2025
Supreme Court of Indiana
“PLF seeks to assist the Court in reinforcing the limits on municipal power and protecting the integrity of the state’s constitutional framework.”
April 01, 2025
Supreme Court of Arkansas