American Heroes : Her family built a safe product. The government destroyed their business.
What happens when the federal government decides it doesn't like your product—even when it's safe, compliant, and trusted by families for years? On this episode of American Heroes, host Kathy Hoekstra sits down with Jamie Leach, a registered nurse and cofounder of Leachco, Inc. The Oklahoma-based business, run by Jamie's family, spent nearly f ...
Federal court hears case representing historic mining company stripped of Seventh Amendment rights
In 2024, a historic mining company found itself before an agency tribunal. The company represented itself, filing petitions with the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission to deny and vacate the unconstitutional judgment. Instead of an independent courtroom with an independent judge and a neutral jury, the Secretary of Labor forced Americ ...
The government regulated rideshare drivers and entrepreneurs, violating principles of federalism
In recent months, state and national governments have acted beyond their constitutional authority by imposing restrictive regulations on rideshare drivers and entrepreneurs. Despite clear constitutional boundaries, governments have unconstitutionally denied out-of-state drivers the ability to drive for rideshare services and required business owner ...
Federal court hears case challenging financial surveillance regulation
From a young age, Celia Flowers dreamed of starting her own business, and in 1993, her dreams came true. After buying a title agency, she has successfully scaled her business, which now serves more than 80 counties across Texas. But this week she found herself in a federal courtroom, challenging a federal law that threatens her dreams. Invasive ...
Federalism 240 years after the Constitutional Convention : Federalist 32
Does the federal government have the power to regulate an animal species that lives exclusively in one state? According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, it does. Somehow, what is otherwise Congress's limited power to regulate interstate commerce can be applied to anything that could potentially move across state lines and potentially impact c ...
The Articles of Confederation were defective. The Constitution solved the problem and better embodied the Declaration of Independence.
Within months of the Declaration of Independence, the new states created a shell of a government, shaped by their experience under British tyranny. But the Articles of Confederation were weak and defective: The primary problem was a powerless federal authority, a government that was more like a union of independent nations than a single, unified co ...
The UK is on track to restrict jury trials—and the U.S. could be next.
This week, British Deputy Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor (a position comparable to the U.S. Attorney General) David Lammy addressed the House of Commons, arguing that legal reform is desperately needed to clear up the backlog of criminal cases. The Crown Court faces an unprecedented number of backlogged cases, which could exceed 100,000 by 2028 ...
National Review : Congress Should Stop Passing the Buck to the Bureaucracy
Lawmakers pass laws full of lofty goals — "promote the public interest" or "ensure fairness" — and leave the tough choices to regulators who weren't on anyone's ballot. It's tidy politics: take credit for ideals, outsource the trade-offs, blame the bureaucracy when the sausage tastes funny. But if we want an accountable government, Congress mus ...
National Review : Speaker Johnson Proves the Necessity of Reviving the Nondelegation Doctrine
During a press conference earlier this month, House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked about Justice Neil Gorsuch's concerns, raised during Supreme Court oral arguments over the legality of the president's tariffs, that Congress had violated the long-dormant "nondelegation doctrine" by delegating too much of its tariff power to the president. Johnso ...