Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Rumors of the textualist triumph over legislative history have been greatly ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When the longtime state representative serving her district in north-central New ...

Congress tried to claw back the FTC's powers in 1980 through a legislative veto, but Chadha rendered that "bargain" unconstitutional. Here, Barrett asked about whether a legislative veto may have also ...

The New York Court of Appeals announced that friend-of-the-court briefs on cases about legislative intent and statutes may no longer present lawmakers' views expressed outside of the publicly ...