President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon signed executive orders that will change how federal agencies issue guidance documents, which they can use to set regulatory policy without going through the normal lengthy public comment and review process.Agency guidance documents carry less weight than formal regulations, but also do not have to go through the public…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) and four ranchers from Wyoming and South Dakota recently launched a lawsuit to stop implementation of a federal livestock traceability program. Some background: In April this year, the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) released a factsheet explaining the agency’s plan…

WASHINGTON – It took barely a couple of hours  after oral argument on the motion in New Orleans, for a panel of the  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue an order staying the SEC’s enforcement proceedings against NCLA client Michelle Cochran, according to a press release.  The order in Cochran v.…

The federal government wants the publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist to delete his apparently anti-union June 6 tweet. Ben Domenech tagged the magazine’s handle and relayed a thought about the first person who might want to organize their co-workers and form a union in The Federalist’s workplace: “I swear I’ll send you back…

California’s law requiring charitable organizations to disclose donor information is unnecessary to regulate such organizations and should be blocked, 14 states supporting a conservative advocacy group affiliated with billionaire activist Charles Koch told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. California’s required “blanket and preemptive” disclosures are not sufficiently related to state Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s…

WASHINGTON—A civil rights group filed papers with the Supreme Court on Sept. 23 urging it to tear away at the legal underpinnings of the modern administrative state. The Washington-based New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a petition for certiorari, or review, with the court in hopes of overturning the so-called Brand X doctrine that the Supreme…