Article III courts annually review thousands of decisions rendered by Social Security Administrative Law Judges, Immigration Judges, and other agency adjudicators who decide large numbers of cases in short periods of time. Federal judges can provide a claim for disability benefits or for immigration relief—the sort of consideration that an agency buckling under the strain […] Continue Reading >
American cities are under attack. The last few years have witnessed an explosion of preemptive legislation challenging and overriding municipal ordinances across a wide range of policy areas. State–city conflicts over the municipal minimum wage, LGBT antidiscrimination, and sanctuary city laws have garnered the most attention, but these conflicts are representative of a larger trend […] Continue Reading >
A Baptism by Incentives
Rethinking Judicial Review of High Volume Agency Adjudication
For over sixty years, wildland fires in the United States have been consuming American land to an ever-increasing extent:[1] from January 1 through March 31 of 2017 alone, over two million acres of U.S. earth were scorched by wildfires.[2] According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, nine out of the ten years with the highest burned […] Continue Reading >