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July 3, 2024  •  Weekly Newsletter
Chevron Deference Is No More

Bill Watkins (The Beacon)

In a landmark case this week the Supreme Court overturned the 1984 Chevron standard, a ruling that previously gave unelected bureaucrats the leeway to interpret statutes to their own ends and purposes. Will this change of course reestablish oversight of the runaway administrative state? READ MORE »

Regulation and the Reagan Era

Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest

Edited by Roger E. Meiners, Bruce Yandle

Supreme Court: Rahimi Preserves Bruen

Stephen P. Halbrook (Volokh Conspiracy)

A lot to be said about the recent SCOTUS decision United States v. Rahimi—but the bottom line? Rahimi upheld the idea that, for a person to be denied his Second Amendment rights, he has to be: found to be a credible threat to the physical safety of another person. Many firearm restrictions fall short of meeting this reasonable bar. READ MORE »

The Right to Bear Arms

A Constitutional Right of the People
or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?

By Stephen P. Halbrook

From Solzhenitsyn to US Governors: No Lessons Learned

K. Lloyd Billingsley (American Spectator)

No lessons learned, at all. From nursing-home victims to school shutdowns to bans even on paddleboarding and fishing, the government’s pandemic regime revealed an authoritarian mindset interested more in power, and coddling those wielding it, than in keeping people safe. We need our own Solzhenitsyn to tell the real story of what happened…. READ MORE »

COVID Lessons Learned

A Retrospective After Four Years

By Scott W. Atlas et al.

Thank Walmart, not Biden or Trump, for Lower Insulin Prices

Raymond J. March (Washington Times)

With election season upon us, President Biden and former President Donald Trump are both taking credit for capping insulin prices. Neither did. Walmart to the rescue! READ MORE »

Priceless (Updated Second Edition)

Curing the Healthcare Crisis

By John C. Goodman

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Jury Trials and the Administrative State: SEC v. Jarkesy

William J. Watkins, Jr.

How the Grants Pass Decision Shapes Local Approaches to Homeless Encampments

Christopher Calton

California Advances Bills to Ban Thicker, Reusable Plastic Bags That It Previously Required

Adam Summers

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Scott Beyer

No, We Don’t Need Federal Homeschooling Standards

Kerry McDonald

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