Can unelected bureaucrats turn your weekend hobby into a criminal offense?

In this episode of Courtside Commentary, NCLA General Counsel Zhonette Brown sits down with litigation attorneys Casey Norman and Sheng Li to break down NCLA’s 100th case—a bold legal challenge against the National Park Service for effectively criminalizing BASE jumping without congressional authorization.

What’s at stake?

– Can agencies make criminal law?
– Why the nondelegation doctrine, fair notice, and the Administrative Procedure Act matter.
– How vague regulations and agency overreach have landed law-abiding Americans in jail—for jumping off cliffs with parachutes.
– Why criminal penalties shouldn’t come from cargo-drop rules written before BASE jumping even existed.

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