The Messenger: Will a New Jersey commercial fishing company upend the administrative state?

 

If you were looking for someone to strike a crippling blow against the administrative state, you might not think to start with a small, family-owned commercial fishing company in New Jersey.

But constitutional heroes are often surprising, writes Alison Somin. And that’s the case with Loper Bright Enterprises, going before the Supreme Court this fall.

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How California’s trucking regulations are impacting a Pennsylvania small business owner

What do California laws have to do with Pennsylvania trucks?

Unfortunately, everything: Brittany Hunter explains how a new California regulation is threatening to strangle Peters Brothers, a family trucking company founded in Pennsylvania in 1950.

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Illegal rulemaking threatens livelihoods, conservation, and the rule of law

 

Cameron Edwards is a third-generation farmer in Kansas whose family’s farm supports their livelihoods, the region’s economy, and the lesser prairie-chicken, a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Despite the family's environmental stewardship, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issued a new rule for the lesser prairie-chicken that would dramatically restrict land use across millions of acres. In its rulemaking, however, the agency cut several constitutional corners, including the separation of powers.

Forced to choose between his family’s livelihood and their rights, Cameron is fighting back.

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