Garrett Snedeker

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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.}

Articles by Garrett

Relentless/Loper Bright in the Lower Courts: Flare-Ups After Chevron’s Fall

By: Garrett Snedeker October 10, 2025

Blogs

The battle to determine the import of the Supreme Court’s landmark 2024 ruling in Relentless v. Department of Commerce and its companion case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo in the lower courts has featured a few notable flare-ups recently. Such flare-ups could be expected. The ultimate import of a Supreme Court opinion over the activities…

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11th Circuit Rules Against SEC’s CAT

By: Garrett Snedeker August 1, 2025

Blogs

The saga of the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) featured a notable milestone on July 25 when the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a blow against the CAT as it currently operates. A three judge-panel unanimously held that the legal mechanism adopted in 2023 to fund the CAT violates the Administrative Procedure Act. In…

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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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Garrett Snedeker

Garrett Snedeker

Articles by Garrett

Relentless/Loper Bright in the Lower Courts: Flare-Ups After Chevron’s Fall

11th Circuit Rules Against SEC’s CAT

COVID Closure of Churches

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