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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.

Articles by Garrett

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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Illinois Supreme Court Rules Monetary Bail Not Required By Bail Clause in State Constitution

By: Garrett Snedeker June 3, 2024
In July 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated ruling in Rowe v. Raoul, a challenge to the state’s Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act.[1] The Act “dismantled and rebuilt Illinois’s statutory framework for the pretrial release of criminal defendants.” [2] In a 5-2 opinion, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that the Act…
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