Separation of Powers

On Tuesday, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk filed a federal lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission. The past week has been a mix of successes and setbacks for Musk, who celebrated the victorious test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on Sunday, just days after the California Coastal Commission put the kibosh on plans to launch more r ...

In 2023, rural Iowa landowner Dan Ward found himself at odds with the Army Corps of Engineers over a construction project deemed to be in violation of the Clean Water Act. Nearing retirement, Dan plans to spend the next chapter of his life on his property in southern Iowa. His first step was building a home. Then he moved on to other projects th ...

The Constitution's guarantee of the right to a jury trial is more remarkable than we recognize. In fact, most of us give little to no thought to the institution of jury trials until we receive a jury duty summons in the mail. While a summons might invoke a fair amount of annoyance at having to step away from our jobs and spend an unspecified number ...

Elon Musk is fighting the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) power grab. Jamie Leach is fighting to save her company from the whims of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Frank Black is fighting against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) so he can keep working in the industry he's loved for 40 years. And Jeffrey Moat ...

Summer vacation is over for the Supreme Court. On October 7, the Justices will start hearing cases again in a term that is shaping up to be decidedly less exciting than the previous few. Whereas the Court has recently tackled hot-button issues ranging from racial preferences to abortion, the current docket mostly has to do with statutory interpreta ...

Twelve years ago, my son Adam started a small tree care company in our hometown of Perkasie, Bucks County. What started as a side business alongside his full-time job as a mechanical technician grew into ATS Tree Services, a successful company with a dozen employees that provides a wide range of residential and commercial tree care services. The Fe ...

Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor for President Reagan, was accused of defrauding New York City back when he headed up a construction firm. He was forced to resign from the Reagan administration but was later acquitted of the fraud charges. Afterward, he famously asked, "Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?"  Leachco, a small fa ...

Some unconstitutional regulations are like zombies: A court can put them down only to see them shamble back to life. In a recent order, the Federal Communications Commission has resurrected a policy that many assumed was dead. From the 1980s until 1998, the FCC required television and radio broadcasters to classify all station employees, ...

 Countless families tell stories about long-ago ancestors. Some are well documented, while others have been passed down and modified from generation to generation like a years-long game of telephone. That latter category often includes stories about those who came to the New World on the Mayflower or were a Cherokee Indian princess. Most of those ...