by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jul 12, 2022 | Blog, Richard Samp
Photo: Hon. William H. Pryor Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit The unconstrained attack on the federal judiciary by Democratic members of Congress is in full swing. That effort was abetted last week by an...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Richard Samp
Photo: Adam Fagen Defenders of the administrative state have long contended that the Government runs much more smoothly when professional bureaucrats are granted free rein to act in “the public interest,” unconstrained by political forces that they fear are, all too...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | May 13, 2022 | Blog, Richard Samp
The federal Food and Drug Administration for several years has been attempting to prevent a state-licensed healthcare facility in Massachusetts from continuing to provide treatment to severely disabled patients. Last year, the federal appeals court in...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Richard Samp
In its decision earlier this month in Wooden v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 1063 (2022), the Supreme Court had little difficulty rejecting the Solicitor General’s expansive interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). That statute mandates a 15-year...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jan 21, 2022 | Blog, Richard Samp
Photo: U.S. Senator Ted Cruz speaking with attendeesat the 2019 Teen Student Action Summit in Washington, D.C./Gage Skidmore McCain-Feingold, the campaign-finance legislation adopted by Congress in 2002, includes several provisions (known collectively as “the...
by will.gale | Nov 16, 2021 | Opinion, Richard Samp
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 29 agreed to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that broadly construed the right of individuals to file suit for infringement of their constitutional rights — a sure sign the 9th Circuit will once again be...
