PLF Senate Testimony: Congress must rein in unconstitutional bureaucratic rulemaking

Earlier this year, Pacific Legal Foundation published a first-of-its-kind study that found that over the past 17 years, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a majority of its rules unconstitutionally.
 
And Capitol Hill noticed.

On Wednesday, the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight & Emergency Management held a hearing on PLF’s recent report. The hearing featured one of the report authors, PLF Attorney Thomas Berry, who testified about the serious need to bring accountability back to our bureaucratic government agencies.

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PLF President & CEO Steven D. Anderson explains how the Senate’s interest in the constitutional problem of rulemakers not following the rules is at the intersection of initiatives we’ve integrated into PLF over the past year: strategic research and legal policy. These two new departments complement our litigation activity advancing issues important to our core mission before new audiences in new ways.

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The Morning Call: It’s my farm but it’s everybody’s Constitution
 

When you live in a small community, your neighbors and elected officials are often one and the same. The best way to keep tabs on both is to stay involved and ask tough questions.

And if the two worlds collide, make a federal case out of it.

That’s what Rose Knick did. She tells us in her words how her Supreme Court journey restored property rights for all Americans.

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