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At the close of the Supreme Court’s last term, Justice Neil Gorsuch concurred in the court’s 6-3 decision discarding the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which required Article III judges to defer to federal agencies when Congress’s statutory language is ambiguous. Gorsuch noted while “sophisticated entities” can hire lawyers and lobbyists to “keep pace” with ever-changing regulatory provisions, “ordinary people” cannot. It is they, wrote the associate justice from Colorado, who are the beneficiaries of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. In Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, Gorsuch and his co-author, former Supreme Court clerk Janie Nitze, write expansively...

The first lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., Friday evening challenging President Trump’s new emergency declaration to build his border wall. Three Texas landowners and the Frontera Audubon Society in Texas asked a judge to halt any action Mr. Trump might take under the declaration, arguing that a fight with Congress over spending money doesn’t constitute an emergency under the 1970s-era National Emergencies Act.

Houston Mayoral Candidate Bill White's record in Azerbaijan is subject to many different interpretations. At worst, White's oil deal with the former Soviet Republic has propped up an inhumane regime that has harbored terrorists, including Al-Qaeda; resulted in drilling on a natural preserve in violation of Azerbaijan's environmental laws; and included as stakeholders Saudi Arabian oil magnates suspected of financing terrorism. At best, the deal has helped improve U.S.Azerbaijan relations, opened up a new source of oil that could decrease U.S. reliance on Middle East crude, and benefited Azerbaijan's economy. Indeed, it seems likely that there have been both positive...