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Garrett Snedeker

Garrett Snedeker

Staff Attorney


Garrett Snedeker graduated as an evening J.D. student from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in 2023, where he served on the George Mason Law Review as Articles Editor. He graduated from Amherst College with two bachelor’s degrees in History and English. He continues to work full-time, as he has for the past ten years, as Deputy Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding. Previously he worked as editor of the congressional research website LegiStorm. His writing has been featured in Newsweek, The Federalist, The American Mind, The American Conservative, Starting Points Journal, and the Online Library of Law & Liberty. Garrett is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Not licensed in Virginia; admitted to practice in D.C.

COVID Closure of Churches

By: Garrett Snedeker March 26, 2025
COVID-19 | FIve Years Page
Forced closure of houses of worship during the Covid pandemic demonstrated how far-reaching administrative edicts could be. In the early weeks of the pandemic, amidst uncertainty about the virus, most Americans were willing to adjust their normal behavior out of an abundance of caution in the face of a virus with an unknown lethality. They…
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The Supreme Court’s Corner Post Ruling: Restoring Justice Where It’s Due

By: Garrett Snedeker October 17, 2024
Blogs
The Supreme Court deserves some additional praise for its decision resolving a circuit split on a fine point of administrative law in Corner Post from its most recent term. Without acknowledging as much, the majority in Corner Post affirmed an elementary proposition of moral and legal justice that had fallen by the wayside.    In one…
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Will Lower Courts Preserve the Administrative State?

By: Garrett Snedeker September 4, 2024
Even if many close court-watchers anticipated overturning Chevron deference during the Supreme Court’s last term, where the Court would place its accent remained an open question. However, the overturning of Chevron in the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright/Relentless decision will not be shaped exclusively or even largely by what the Supreme Court said or what Congress does in its wake, despite what…
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