The D.C. Circuit and ‘Cooperative Federalism’

By Ammon Simon November 7, 2013

If you are wondering why President Obama wishes to stack the D.C. Circuit, check out Senator Jeff Sessions’s recent report on EPA overreach, “Neglecting a Cornerstone Principle of the Clean Air Act: President ...

Nan Aron’s D.C. Circuit Myths

By Ammon Simon November 5, 2013

Last week’s D.C. Circuit ruling against the HHS contraception mandate – a blow to the President’s unconstitutional religious-liberty agenda – has highlighted one more reason to stop President Obama’s court-packing plan; if it ...

Re: On the Nuclear Option: Go Ahead, Make My Day

By Ammon Simon November 4, 2013

The Wall Street Journal, on Democrat threats to invoke nuclear option over President Obama’s recent executive and judicial-branch nominees: Democrats are threatening once again to use the “nuclear option” to end ...

Collegiality, Court-Packing, and the D.C. Circuit

By Ammon Simon October 30, 2013

The House Judiciary Committee held hearings yesterday on whether the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals needs new judges, with testimony from my colleague Carrie Severino, along with Senator Chuck Grassley, C. ...

House Testimony on D.C. Circuit Court-Packing Plan

By Ammon Simon October 29, 2013

Today at 2:00 p.m. in room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building my colleague Carrie Severino will be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on the topic of the D.C. ...

Republican AGs vs. Obama’s Court-Packing Plan

By Ammon Simon October 28, 2013

In July The Weekly Standard published a cover story by Fred Barnes about the new crop of state attorneys general who are engaged in an ongoing effort to ensure that ...

No Court Packing

By Ammon Simon October 28, 2013

My group, the Judicial Crisis Network, has produced a slideshow entitled “Everything you need to know about the D.C. Circuit in 13 graphics,” about President Obama’s three appointments to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...

Senator Cornyn on the D.C. Circuit

By Ammon Simon October 24, 2013

Senator Cornyn has an op-ed on FoxNews.com urging Republicans to use the upcoming battle over the D.C. Circuit as a unifying event: In recent weeks, the national media have been obsessed ...

Obamacare Litigation Update

By Ammon Simon October 21, 2013

The Obama administration’s disastrous rollout of the health-care exchanges isn’t the only significant threat to President Obama’s ill-conceived health-care law. The Wall Street Journal has an update on the latest ...

Politics & Policy

How to Fix Too Big to Fail

By Ammon Simon October 21, 2013

Three years after the passage of Dodd-Frank – a law that was supposed to permanently end the massive publicly funded bailouts of 2008 – it’s clear that the discredited and unpopular practice of unofficially treating ...