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This weekend, Senator Mike Lee of Utah and I had an article in the Wall Street Journal urging the Supreme Court to hear People for the Ethical Treatment of Property Owners v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service---PLF's challenge to a federal regulation that frustrates the recovery of the Utah prairie dog and threatens to erode any limits on the federal ...

In her most recent column, Kimberly Strassel writes that an idea I've been promoting is a "Regulatory Game Changer" that would allow Congress to "overrule Obama regulations going back to 2009." This is incredibly flattering praise from Strassel, who is a Bradley Prize winner and author of the Potomac Watch column every Friday for The Wall Street Jo ...

caption id="" align="alignright" width="352" Bears Ears National Monument/caption Last weekend, The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed that Professor John Yoo and I wrote to answer the White House's claim that Trump can't reverse President Obama's recent proclamations that lock up millions of acres of public land from reasonable public uses. Yoo a ...

caption id="attachment_38450" align="alignright" width="352" By Riverhugger (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons/caption In the Wall Street Journal, attorney and former high-ranking EPA official Bill Wehrum has an op-ed $ arguing that the Animas River spill shouldn't lead to criminal punishment, but neither should similar accidents caused by privat ...

Readers of this blog know that PLF has been heavily involved in Shelby County v. Holder -- a case currently pending before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  PLF believes that the law has outlived its purpose, and that it forces "covered" jurisdictions to engage in unconstitutional racial ger ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Yesterday I reported on the Supreme Court's decision in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, in which the high court held that the plaintiffs' federal common law public nuisance lawsuits based on the defendants' greenhouse gas emissions were statutorily "displaced" by Congress's enact ...