by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog, Kara Rollins
Just as the cherry blossoms bloom here every spring, another regular D.C. occurrence is blooming—midnight regulations. A product of the modern administrative state, the midnight regulation period is the time between a presidential election and the inauguration...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog, Kara Rollins
Over the summer I wrote about Executive Order 13924, which attempts to lessen the administrative burdens faced by private individuals and businesses by reining in the administrative state. In addition to directing agencies to rescind, modify, or waive...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jul 14, 2020 | Blog, Kara Rollins
In a previous post, we discussed the new and welcome regulatory changes made by President Trump in Executive Order 13924 last month, a significant victory for civil liberties. But while excitement is warranted for these positive developments, many further reforms,...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 30, 2020 | Blog, Kara Rollins
Executive Orders are one source of egregious expansions of administrative power, and NCLA litigators frequently challenge unconstitutional exercises of lawmaking by executive fiat. For example, see NCLA’s recent amicus brief challenging the authority of the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 11, 2020 | Blog, Kara Rollins
Last fall, President Trump issued two Executive Orders aimed at reining in unlawful administrative state action. Together, the orders represented a welcome change for regulated parties, who too often find themselves in regulatory agencies’ crosshairs with little...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19 Articles, Kara Rollins
The ongoing national emergency is still too new and too fluid for any of us to glean much beyond the obvious—wash your hands, stay inside, and practice kindness and grace toward others. But that has not stopped prognosticators from discussing what a...