The presidency of the United States is an immensely consequential role. It is also just immense. As the Supreme Court has explained, “Because no single person c

Agencies issuing rules have always faced the risk of getting sued. But they have not traditionally faced the risk of getting sued for failing to discuss their r

This article considers insights from the Australian Parliament’s Senate standing committee that systematically scrutinizes new agency rules under established sc

Trump v. United States, which declared the President to be immune from prosecution for any act performed in the course of exercising their “exclusive” constitut

<div> This Term, the Supreme Court is hearing its first case addressing the Equal Protection rights of the transgender community, <i>United States v. Skrmetti<

Ashraf Ahmed, Lev Menand, & Noah A. Rosenblum, The Making of Presidential Administration, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 2131 (2024).Richard MurphyNinety years ago, a unanimous Supreme Court thought it obvious tha...

<p><span>The federal government engages in massive amounts of informal adjudication.  Informal adjudication means a process that resolves a dispute between

The Supreme Court held in Loper Bright v. Raimondo that the Administrative Procedure Act does not require federal courts to defer to reasonable agency interpret

More people interact with administrative adjudications than with courts, and the lack of lawyers to assist people in these proceedings remains at crisis levels.

American administrative law's relationship to change is, as they say, complicated. On the one hand, continual evolution has been an endemic feature of American

Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, according to new studies

Article II vests the executive power in the President. Yet Congress routinely empowers private plaintiffs, not just the President, to enforce public regulatory

ALT: kermit the frog is standing in front of a red curtain and saying yaaaa

Trump says the grid is desperately struggling --a strange time to eliminate energy-saving regulations. DOE’s effort to roll back product efficiency standards is also illegal.

Image shows mallard snapped at 52km/h in same 30km/h zone as a duck on the same day seven years ago A radar image of a speed offender caught in central Switzerland last month has revealed that the culprit was not only a duck but probably a repeat offender, local authorities have said. Police in the town of Köniz, near the capital, Bern, were astounded when they went through radar images snapped on 13 April to discover that a mallard was among those caught in the speed trap, the municipality said on its Facebook page at the weekend. Continue reading...

The NZ department of conservation was performing a routine weight check on the snail when a small, white egg began to emerge from it's slimy neck

If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.

Using new archival research, this Article argues that notice-and-comment rulemaking emerged from a series of American transplantations of English rulemaking procedures. Yet, as this Article emphasizes...

The first hundred days of Trump's second term make the anti-environmental efforts of the first term pale by comparison.

Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Appropriations Presidentialism,” by Matthew B. Lawrence, Eloise Pasachoff, and Zachary S. Price, which is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal Online. Here i...

Despite Trump, state governments have continued to make quiet progress in their efforts to expand clean energy and phase out fossil fuels.

Here are the agencies where we have confirmed layoffs have taken or are about to take place. We will update as we learn more.

In response to President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a National Energy Emergency, the U.S. Department of the Interior will implement emergency permitting procedures to accelerate the development ...

Under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), agencies must typically propose rules, including deregulatory rules, for public comment before issuing them in final form. But in multiple recent actions,...

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Over a dozen federal agencies have offices in the Philly area. Understanding what they do can highlight how mass layoffs and cutbacks might affect the region.

It's understood that, under Article III, Congress has plenary power over the lower federal courts. But that doesn't mean Congress's authority is unlimited. &quo

For ill or good, the world is full of stories. Given the political stories being used to deconstruct the administrative state, it is easy to be cynical about st

The major questions doctrine is a key part of the Supreme Court’s recent “imperial” turn. The doctrine is sweeping, vague, but most importantly lacks a real jus