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As Washington wrestles with the question of a special prosecutor to look into the IRS scandal the thing to think about is the boldness of the president.

Egregious misconduct surfaces, showcasing the militantly officious nature of bloated big-government bureaucracy.

A very interesting guest post today by Lise Gelernter on the potential impact of yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court decision involving administrative law and the FCC, which could have some impact on the NLRB's power to interpret the jurisdictional bounds of its own statute: As an administrative law geek, I read the Supreme Court's Chevron decision ... (more)

At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr.

The Federal Communications Commission's high-profile attempt to defend its net neutrality rules against a court challenge got major support on Monday from the Supreme Court, which ruled in a separate case that regulatory agencies should usually be granted deference in interpreting their own jurisdictions.

Stuart and Jonathan have both commented on the legal analysis in today's City of Arlington v. FCC opinion from the Supreme Court, about which I have nothing to say.

In a 5-4 decision, the high court mandated a complete redistribution of personnel, equipment, and funds, "in a more constitutionally permissible manner." The majority, led by Justice Antonin Scalia, reasoned: "This question is very simple.

Democrats don't have the millennial vote locked up, Charlie Cook says. While millennials aren't anti-government, they are skeptical about government's ability to effectively deal with problems in large part because they haven't seen it work effectively.

Recently I listened to Oral Argument in the case, Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl , a very interesting, and incredibly contentious case out of South Carolina.

In the debate over the future of the Voting Rights Act, it sometimes becomes apparent that certain members of the Supreme Court are either oblivious to our nation's recent history or willfully ignore it.

The Supreme Court April 29 let stand a lower-court ruling that tossed out restrictive provisions of an Alabama immigration law.

"It is plainly true that in our society blacks have suffered discrimination immeasurably greater than any directed at other racial groups." These were the words of Justice Antonin Scalia , written in his concurring opinion in the 1989 Supreme Court case Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co.

When the federal government stopped enforcing our immigration laws, a number of states - led by Arizona - began passing laws to do the job the feds wouldn't do.

An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Alabama's appeal to revive portions of the state's immigration law.

In the debate over the future of the Voting Rights Act , it sometimes becomes apparent that certain members of the Supreme Court are either oblivious to our nation's recent history or willfully ignore it.

MOBILE, Ala. The Supreme Court has rejected Alabama's appeal to revive portions of a state immigration law, including a section that made it a crime to harbor people who are living in the country illegally.

Anyone keen on the Supreme Court's on-going arguments over the legality of certain parts of the Voter Rights Act surely has not forgotten Justice Antonio Scalia 's " racial entitlement " remarks from earlier this year-especially " The Crisis ," the NAACP's flagship publication.

As the Supreme Court debated last week over the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 17-year-old law barring same-sex marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia noted the number of states that are permitting gays and lesbians to marry.

It seems likely that the Supreme Court will decide Hollingsworth v. Perry -- the appeal from a federal appellate court ruling overturning California's Proposition 8 state constitutional amendment -- on sociological or policy grounds concerning the merits or harms of same-sex marriage , rather than on the precise meaning of the federal constitution.

Wyatt Sassman, a third-year student at Vanderbilt University Law School, has won first place in the TBA Environmental Law Section's 2013 Jon E. Hastings Memorial Award Writing Competition .