By Ilya Shapiro
Michael and Chantelle Sackett bought some Idaho land and began placing gravel fill on the site to prepare for laying a foundation for their dream home. Then they got something from the EPA: a “Compliance Order,” declaring that they were in violation of the Clean Water Act, because their land had been deemed a “wetland” [...]
EPA Actions Should Be Subject to Judicial Review is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
Today the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Sackett v. EPA, one of the most important property rights cases to reach the Court in recent history. The case involves a complicated statutory scheme created by the Clean Water Act (CWA), which (as relevant here) is enforced by the EPA. In brief, the CWA seeks to protect the “navigable waters of the United States” against pollution. What makes this case interesting and entertaining (at least for observers) is that the EPA has interpreted the term “navigable waters” to include in … More
Would you be outraged if the Department of Justice shut down The Foundry without any warning and blocked access for more than a year? That’s exactly what happened to a hip-hop blog called Dajaz1.com, which was falsely accused of criminal copyright infringement. The blog posted music from artists promoting their work. But federal authorities viewed it differently. They seized the domain name, then shared virtually no information with its owner for more than year. Only recently did they quietly drop the case. The government’s handling of this hip-hop blog is … More
By Ilya Shapiro
That’s the topic of my latest op-ed, in the Daily Caller. Here’s the list: The individual mandate Medicaid coercion The Independent Payment Advisory Board The Chrysler bailout Dodd-Frank The deep-water drilling ban Political-speech disclosure for federal contractors Taxing political contributions Graphic tobacco warnings Health care waivers For descriptions of what makes these things so constitutionally [...]
Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional Violations is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
