3 Supreme Court Cases Could Shake Up the Administrative State

3 Supreme Court Cases Could Shake Up the Administrative State
The Supreme Court building in Washington, in a file photo. Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images
Jack Fitzhenry
GianCarlo Canaparo
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The major theme of the coming Supreme Court term is administrative law. Once obscure, this body of statutes, rules, and cases governing the structure and conduct of the federal government’s administrative agencies gained public attention through recent eye-catching cases—such as the ones that downed the student loan cancellation plan and set aside the clean power plan that would have shifted the nation’s power grid to all renewable energy sources.
Jack Fitzhenry is a senior legal policy analyst in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies of The Heritage Foundation.
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