Congress, Supreme Court One-Two Punch for WOTUS, Admin State
In the latest round of Administrative State ping-pong, Congress has taken the first step toward disapproving an Obama-Biden-era EPA rule...
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James Edwards
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
Property Rights on SCOTUS Docket
On the first Monday this October, the opening day of the U.S. Supreme Court’s next session, the high court will hear oral argument in...
James Edwards
- Jul 9, 2022
- 3 min
Lawmakers’ Light Shed on PTAB
Twin hearings in the U.S. Senate and House Intellectual Property Subcommittees recently drew insightful, important questions and thoughts...
James Edwards
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
Just Rhetoric on Inflation
There he goes again. President Biden’s launched yet another round of blame-shifting for his 40-year-high inflation. And he’s pushing...
James Edwards
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
Biden’s Contributions to Rising Inflation
“. . . [T]he idea we’re going to be able . . . to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term, nor is...
James Edwards
- Apr 15, 2022
- 2 min
CPR Joins Amicus Brief in WOTUS Case
In 2007, Idaho couple Michael and Chantell Sackett prepared to build a house in an existing subdivision. They broke ground and began...
James Edwards
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
The Grinches Stealing America’s Christmas
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are behaving a lot like the unrepentant Grinch Who Stole Christmas —...
James Edwards
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
Unhappy 10th Birthday, AIA
Ten years ago, Congress enacted a highly destructive law undoing important elements of the wildly successful, property rights-based,...
Tom DeWeese
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
Why Property Rights Matter, Part 3: The Growing Attack on Property Rights
The increasing encroachment of government regulations, pontificating politicians and the enforcement of “social justice” schemes has led...
Tom DeWeese
- Apr 6, 2021
- 3 min
Why Property Rights Matter, Part 2: The Lost Definition of Private Property Rights
In the 1990s, an all-out assault on property rights was well underway, led by a radical environmental movement, resulting in massive...
James Edwards
- Mar 23, 2021
- 3 min
Bayh-Dole and March-In
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is completing something begun in 2018 under its Return on Investment Initiative. The...
James Edwards
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Study: Weak Patents Drive Away VCs
Among its intense assaults on private property rights, the Obama-Biden administration abused regulatory powers to weaken our industrial...
Josh Malone, inventor
- Sep 11, 2020
- 3 min
The Maladministrative State and Property Theft
This summer, U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave a very direct speech at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum. Mr. Barr aimed to...
James Edwards
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min
OMB's Due Process Reform
March 16 marks the close of a public comment period for the latest commendable initiative by Russ Vought’s Office of Management and...
James Edwards
- Feb 22, 2020
- 2 min
NEPA Regulatory Procedural Relief
Regulatory review delayed is property rights denied. Regulatory takings, both de facto (e.g., Obama’s Waters of the United States...
James Edwards
- Dec 16, 2019
- 2 min
Snatching Private Property Is Expropriation
What if the government “snatch[ed] their patents” from American companies? That’s how Sen. Kamala Harris told voters she’d lower drug...
James Edwards
- Sep 18, 2019
- 2 min
America’s WOTUS Nightmare Is Over
Borrowing from President Gerald Ford, the long national WOTUS nightmare is finally over. The Trump administration has repealed this...
James Edwards
- Aug 13, 2019
- 4 min
Leftist Threats to Property Rights
A free economy is a terrible thing to waste. That and the high standard of living, the time- and labor-saving advances, the dynamic...
James Edwards
- May 15, 2019
- 2 min
An Antitrust Threat to Innovation
Legislation titled the “Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act” should be wonderful and help patients. But you can’t judge a bill by...
James Edwards
- Apr 15, 2019
- 2 min
Navigating “Waters” in Regulation
Don’t look now, but we’re about to see a step toward common sense by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers....
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