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When can the president tell government agency directors, “You’re fired”?
The Supreme Court this week heard oral argument in Collins v. Mnuchin, challenging the structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
Created by Congress in response to the 2008 mortgage lending crisis, the agency has sweeping authority over our nation’s housing finance system and is run by a single director who may only be removed “for cause” by the president. Elizabeth Slattery tells how the case raises the important constitutional question: Is the nation’s chief executive, the president, really in charge?
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Time to rein in government’s pandemic overreach—starting with CDC’s eviction ban
When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is written, it will need a section on the most counterproductive and overreaching government responses.
Steven D. Anderson and Kent Lassman, president and CEO of Competitive Enterprise Institute, explain why that list should include the nationwide ban on residential rental evictions imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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New video: The California Coastal Commission explained
What is the most powerful federal agency in the United States? The CIA? The FBI?
Well, as explained in our newest video, released this week, it might actually be an obscure West Coast agency called the California Coastal Commission.
Born out of the environmental movement of the 1960s, the CCC is tasked with protecting California’s coastline. However, its powers and guiding philosophy are much more radical than that.
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