Necessary & Proper Episode 99: Defining Antisemitism: A Debate on Free Speech and Civil Rights
Congress is currently debating the Antisemitism Awareness Act. This proposed legislation aims to provide a clear definition of antisemitism...
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Necessary & Proper is the official podcast of the Federalist Society's Article I Initiative. The Framers of the Constitution intended the legislature to be the most powerful branch of govern...
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20 of 102 episodesNecessary & Proper Episode 100: Legislative or Executive? The Curious Case of the Library of Congress
The recent dismissal of the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights by President Trump raises fundamental questions about the s...
Necessary & Proper Episode 98: Courthouse Steps Decision: Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has traditionally regulated interstate and international communications and, as part of that, ma...
Necessary & Proper Episode 95: DOGE and the Future of the Federal Workforce
On January 20th, 2025, President Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by executive order. DOGE and its head, Elo...
Necessary & Proper Episode 97: Checks and Balances: Deregulation Based on Supreme Court Rulings
Among the points emphasized by the second Trump administration has been a major push for deregulation. President Trump has directed that the...
Necessary & Proper Episode 96: The Art of Deregulation: Executive Orders and Limited Government
Since taking office on January 20, 2025, President Trump has emphasized deregulation. Deregulatory efforts have focused both on undoing Bide...
Necessary & Proper Episode 94: The End of Humphrey’s Executor?
Does the President control independent agencies? This panel will examine the Trump administration's efforts to reassert presidential control...
Necessary & Proper Episode 93: Executive Orders: Faithful Execution or Legislating from the Oval Office?
Presidents have used executive orders to direct the executive branch since the founding, but over the years the modern Presidency has drasti...
Necessary & Proper Episode 92: Can the Federal Government Ban At-Home Distilling?
After the U.S. Supreme Court in Morrison v. Olson (1988) and U.S. v. Lopez (1995) held two federal statutes were unconstitutional as those s...
Necessary & Proper Episode 91: Antitrust and FTC Reform in the New Congress
In 2025, antitrust and consumer protection remain hot topics in the legal world as a new Congress and Administration begin. Join this FedSoc...
Necessary & Proper Episode 90: Nondelegation Doctrine Adds Another Good Year?
For many years, legal scholars have declared that the nondelegation doctrine is dead. Professor Cass Sunstein once quipped that the nondeleg...
Necessary & Proper Episode 89: New Voices in Administrative Law II: The Supreme Court and Federal Court Jurisdiction
The development of standing jurisprudence has been inextricably intertwined with the growth of the administrative state over the past 60 yea...
Necessary & Proper Episode 88: Loper Bright & Relentless
Chevron v. NRDC (1984) and subsequent precedents held that courts should defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes. This “Chevro...
Necessary & Proper Episode 87: Current & Future Uses of the Impeachment Power
Congress’s impeachment power has been used dozens of times since the republic’s founding, mostly for relatively low- and mid-level executive...
Necessary & Proper Episode 86: Why Congress
In his recent book Why Congress , Dr. Phillip Wallach covers the past, present, and future of the Legislative branch to help measure its mod...
Necessary & Proper Episode 85: Holding Congress Accountable to the Constitution
On March 28, 2023, Representatives Harriet Hageman and Chip Roy joined the Georgetown University Chapter of the Federalist Society for a dis...
Can the Legislative Power Be Delegated?
On March 23, 2023, the Center for Constitutional Design at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the Federalist...
The Major Questions Doctrine, Chevron Deference & the Future of the Regulatory State
The University of Richmond chapter of the Federalist Society hosted this panel discussion on "The Major Questions Doctrine, Chevron Deferenc...
Necessary & Proper Episode 82: The D.C. Crime Bill: What Happens Next?
In November 2022, the District of Columbia City Council passed the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA) that significantly reformed the...
Necessary & Proper Episode 81: Creatures of Statute III: Congress’ Responsibility to Answer the Major Questions
On October 17, 2022, the Federalist Society's Regulatory Transparency Project and Capitol Hill Chapter hosted part III in a lecture series o...