All Episodes
Unwritten Law — 126 episodes
Can the Government Escape Accountability for Censorship?
Can Agency Commentary Increase Your Prison Sentence?
SCOTUS Special (Part 4): Title IX Means Sex
SCOTUS Special (Part 3): A Major Win for Digital Privacy
SCOTUS Special (Part 2): The Federal Reserve Exception?
SCOTUS Summer Series (Part 1): The End of Humphrey's Executor
Justice Thomas's Warning to Federal Agencies
SCOTUS Rejects Hawaii's Gun Rights Workaround
The SEC Case That Could Expand Jury Trial Rights
Why Is the SEC Tracking Every Stock Trade?
The Fight Over Who Decides Constitutional Claims
Did the SEC Repeal Its Gag Rule to Avoid SCOTUS?
Can Congress Let EPA Pick Winners and Losers?
A Tale of Two Judicial Discipline Cases
The Licensing Board That Ignored Due Process
The SEC Repealed the Gag Rule. While It's a Victory for Free Speech and NLCA, It's Not Over.
Can Illinois Require Permission to Touch a Gun?
Loper Bright Keeps Reshaping Agency Power
Can EPA Decide Who Stays in Business?
How Loper Bright Is Changing the Courts
Government Doesn’t Appeal NCLA’s Victory in Labor Rule Case
Judges Rally Behind Judge Newman at SCOTUS
Sztrom v. SEC and Your Right to a Jury Trial
16 Amicus Briefs Back Challenge to SEC Gag Rule
When the SEC Takes a Decade to Decide
21 States Back Challenge to EPA Power: SCOTUS Push
Standing, Security, and the “Trump Ballroom”
Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court
State Department Admits First Amendment Violations
Who Gets to Decide What’s a Crime?
The Massachusetts Phone Spyware Case
The Inside Story of Murthy v. Missouri: How the Government Pressured Social Media
Judge Newman and the Right to a Day in Court
The First Amendment vs. the SEC Gag Rule
Geofencing, Google Data, and the Fourth Amendment
Disparate Impact and the Limits of Agency Power
Can Congress Hand EPA the Power to Pick Winners?
The Supreme Court Slaps Down Presidential Tariff Power
Does SEC Disgorgement Require Investor Harm?
The Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket Turns Ten
Student Loan Pauses, Standing, and Lost Subsidies
The SEC’s Stock Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment
Can DOE Regulate Water Use Without Congress?
Seven Amicus Briefs, One Big Question After Loper Bright
Cross-Deputized—and Above the Law?
Trump v. Cook: Can a President Fire a Fed Governor “For Cause”?
The SEC’s Massive Surveillance Database: Davidson, et al. v. Atkins
Can Agencies Force You to Fund Your Own Regulation?
When Agencies Hold the Keys: FTC Investigations and the Right to Go to Court
An Accidental Landmark? How VanDerStok Could Revive Deference to the Administrative State
The Supreme Court at 250: Chief Justice Roberts, Judicial Independence, and a Court That Takes Too Few Cases
Government by the Unelected: How the Administrative State Took Over
Why The Little Sisters Are Still Fighting the ACA Mandate
Mass Surveillance by License Plate: The City of Marco Island Fourth Amendment Case
Executive Power on Trial: Trump v. Slaughter, Part II
Trump v. Slaughter: Is Humphrey’s Executor Finally Dead? Part I
FERC’s Duty of Candor Rule: Dead on Arrival
BASE Jumping, Bureaucracy, and the Law
When SEC Receivers Go Too Far: Russ Ryan on Barton v. SEC
Trump v. Slaughter: The Supreme Court Case That Could End Humphrey’s Executor
Inside the 2025 Federalist Society Convention: Debates, Direction, and What Stood Out
Necessary Discretion: Kara Rollins on Statutory Power and Agency Limits
Auto-Pen & Accountability: What the Oversight Committee Found About the Biden White House
Judicial Impartiality Meets Fiction: Inside the Dondero Recusal Petition
Inside the Supreme Court: Trump’s Tariff Case and the Limits of Executive Power
Can the President Fire Lisa Cook? Trump v. Cook and Executive Power
Trump, the FTC, and the Fight Against the Headless Fourth Branch
Tariffs on Trial: The Supreme Court Weighs Presidential Power
The Mount Rushmore of Originalism — Heritage Guide Part 2
Inside The Heritage Guide to the Constitution: How 150 Scholars Reframed Originalism for a New Era - Part 1
Title IX and Women’s Sports: The Supreme Court Takes Up West Virginia v. B.P.J.
The Roberts Court Turns 20: Triumphs, Trials, and Calling Balls Strikes
Silenced by the SEC: Fighting Against the Gag Rule
Judge Newman’s Fight: En Banc Petition and the McBride Problem
Baby Loungers and Big Government
SEC Backs Down: Father Lemelson’s Decade-Long Fight Ends in Victory
Tariffs on Trial: Supreme Court Showdown Ahead
Biden’s Censorship Network Unraveled
SCOTUS 2025: Firing, Tariffs & Spending on the Line
Fighting the SEC: Father Lemelson’s Decade-Long Battle
You’re Fired: Presidential Removal Power on Trial
Federal Circuit Pushes Back on Presidential Power
NIH v. American Public Health Association—Can a President Cancel $800M in Grants?
Who Can Appoint a U.S. Attorney? Vacancies Act, Appointments Clause, and the New Jersey Ruling
Rule 28(j) or Political Theater? DOJ’s Tariff Letter in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump
NY State Supreme Court Scraps Illegal Fine Against Trump
Stewart v. Walz: When a Professor’s Speech Becomes Grounds for Termination
Nondelegation on Ice: EPA’s Refrigerant Rule and the DC Circuit’s Constitutional Workaround
CAT’s Out of Cash: SEC’s Surveillance Scheme Suffers a Legal Blow
Tariffs on Trial—Inside the Federal Circuit’s Showdown Over Presidential Trade Power
Who’s Holding the Autopen? Pardons, Accountability, and the Unwritten Law
Trump v. Boyle: Executive Power, Agency Chaos, and the Future of Humphrey’s Executor
Jury Trials vs. Administrative Power—Did the Third Circuit Misread Jarkesy?
Criminalizing Insider Trading—Did Courts Just Give the SEC Unlimited Power?
Relentless Post-Chevron—Is the Administrative State Still Winning?
Kennedy v. Braidwood—Did the Supreme Court Just Expand Unelected Agency Power?
FCC vs. Consumers' Research—Did the Supreme Court Just Greenlight Unlimited Agency Fees?
Chaos at CPSC—Trump, Humphrey’s Executor, and the Future of Independent Agencies
FBI Wrong-House Raid—Supreme Court Checks Federal Immunity in Martin v. United States
One Year After Chevron—How Loper Bright & Relentless Changed Administrative Law
Coinbase, IRS, and Your Privacy—Will the Supreme Court End the Third-Party Doctrine?
Fax Machines, 60-Day Rules, and Why Administrative Deadlines Just Changed
Silencing Scholarship—How Institutional Review Boards Chill Free Speech
When Courts Say No—Alpine Securities, FINRA, and the Power of Private Regulators
Unanimous and Surprising—Supreme Court Cases You Didn't Expect
Tariffs vs. Small Business—Simplified’s Battle Against Executive Power-Grab
Fired Up—Can the President Slash the Federal Workforce?
The Waiver Wars—Congress, California, and the Fight Over Emissions Rules
Can One Judge Halt a Law? Inside the Supreme Court Fight Over Nationwide Injunctions
This Isn’t a Trade Court Case—It’s a Constitutional One
State Department Censorship—Daily Wire, Disinfo Files, and the Fight for Free Speech
Who Judges the Judges? NCLA Defends Judge Pauline Newman
COVID-19 Mandates and Constitutional Limits—The Stewart v. Walz Case
Declared Emergency, Hidden Tax: The Case Against Trump’s Tariffs
Trump’s Tariffs, Emergency Powers, and the Lawsuit No One Else Filed
Monarch Madness—Inside NCLA’s 2025 King George III Prize
Injunctions Everywhere—How Courts Are Handling Executive Orders
Taxation Without Legislation? The FCC’s $10 Billion Question
Injunctions, Mootness, and the Legal Tricks That Shut Down Civil Liberties Lawsuits
Who Watches the Watchdogs? The Unchecked Power of CIGIE
Can the President Fire Who He Wants? The Fight Over Executive Power
Vaccine Mandates, the Ninth Circuit, and the Battle Over Bodily Autonomy
Crypto, the IRS, and the Fight for Financial Privacy
From Cliffs to Courtrooms: Base Jumpers Take on the Administrative State
The Sixth Amendment Showdown: Who Deserves a Jury Trial?
Chevron’s Demise and the Future of Administrative Power