Under the guise of the Clean Water Act, headstrong federal ecocrats want the authority to regulate every cranberry bog, duck pond, and mud puddle in America. Regulating the country’s “navigable waters” just isn’t enough for them. A tug of war over the appropriate reach of their regulatory authority has intensified since the 2006 Rapanos ruling. In Rapanos, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a fractured decision, indicated that not every wet or damp spot in America fell under federal authority—delivering a hand slap that the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn’t appreciate.
The most recent target of gun control activists’ ire is the newly announced JR-15. If you’re not familiar, the JR-15 is an AR-15 style rifle designed by the WEE1 Tactical…
Of the last six Justices to announce their retirement, Justice Breyer’s is the earliest in the term, by two and a half months. But more notable than that, Justice Breyer’s…
“Speech is worth one coin, but silence is worth two,” states the Talmud, a central text of Jewish tradition. Perhaps Joe Biden should have favored us with his silence regarding…
William E. Trachman, General Counsel for Mountain States Legal Foundation, today expressed dismay that President Joe Biden would pre-winnow his list of possible Supreme Court candidates to just an African-American woman, thereby eliminating, out-of-hand, the possibility of choosing any other individual for that position who doesn’t meet those criteria.
Mountain States Legal Foundation General Counsel William E. Trachman today applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a pair of cases challenging the longstanding use of race-based admissions policies…
Would you spend nearly four decades fighting a federal government with unlimited resources, patience, and power at its disposal to demand your right to drill for oil and gas? Or…
Contrary to popular misconceptions, the Second Amendment did not create a right to keep and bear arms. Rather, the Second Amendment acknowledges and seeks to protect the People’s natural right…
Was former Philadephia Mayor Frank Rizzo correct when he famously described a conservative as “a liberal who got mugged the night before”? Apparently not, judging from a recent incident in…