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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...

Congress is currently debating the Antisemitism Awareness Act. This proposed legislation aims to provide a clear definition of antisemitism...

The recent dismissal of the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights by President Trump raises fundamental questions about the s...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has traditionally regulated interstate and international communications and, as part of that, ma...

On January 20th, 2025, President Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by executive order. DOGE and its head, Elo...

Among the points emphasized by the second Trump administration has been a major push for deregulation. President Trump has directed that the...

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, President Trump has emphasized deregulation. Deregulatory efforts have focused both on undoing Bide...

Does the President control independent agencies? This panel will examine the Trump administration's efforts to reassert presidential control...

Presidents have used executive orders to direct the executive branch since the founding, but over the years the modern Presidency has drasti...

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...

In 2025, antitrust and consumer protection remain hot topics in the legal world as a new Congress and Administration begin. Join this FedSoc...

For many years, legal scholars have declared that the nondelegation doctrine is dead. Professor Cass Sunstein once quipped that the nondeleg...

The development of standing jurisprudence has been inextricably intertwined with the growth of the administrative state over the past 60 yea...

Chevron v. NRDC (1984) and subsequent precedents held that courts should defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes. This “Chevro...

Congress’s impeachment power has been used dozens of times since the republic’s founding, mostly for relatively low- and mid-level executive...

In his recent book Why Congress , Dr. Phillip Wallach covers the past, present, and future of the Legislative branch to help measure its mod...

On March 28, 2023, Representatives Harriet Hageman and Chip Roy joined the Georgetown University Chapter of the Federalist Society for a dis...

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 University of Richmond chapter of the Federalist Society hosted this panel discussion on "The Major Questions Doctrine, Chevron Deferenc...

In November 2022, the District of Columbia City Council passed the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA) that significantly reformed the...

On October 17, 2022, the Federalist Society's Regulatory Transparency Project and Capitol Hill Chapter hosted part III in a lecture series o...

This second event of a co-sponsored series on the Administrative State focused on the role of the administrative state in policymaking. Thro...

On Friday, November 11, 2022, Senator Mike Lee of Utah addressed the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention. Featuring: - Hon. Mic...

This first luncheon in a series on how the administrative state functions in modern American government featured former "regulations czar" P...

The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits anyone who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States after swearing an oath to s...

Recently we were saddened to hear of the passing of Senator Orrin Hatch. In his honor, we hope you will enjoy revisiting remarks that Senato...

On March 24, 2022, Judge Stephen Schwartz joined the Federalist Society's Notre Dame Student Chapter to discuss the historical, theoretical,...

Some experts argue that the first and most important place for congressional reform is its power of the purse. With regular order a distant...

The Evansville Lawyers Chapter hosted Dave Hoppe, President, Hoppe Strategies, for a discussion entitled "How to Fix the Budget Mess." Featu...

An expert panel discusses the impact that changes proposed in HR 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021, may have on dra...

On September 29, 2021, former United States Representative Bob Barr joined the Federalist Society's Southern California Student Chapter to d...

With Democrats holding power in both houses of Congress and the White House, how will congressional oversight and investigations affect priv...

Then-Senator Biden said in 2005 that "American citizens have benefited from the Senate's check on the excesses of the majority" with "minori...

The For the People Act was introduced in the House of Representatives in 2019 as H.R. 1, the symbolic designation marking it as the top prio...

On May 17, as part of their annual Executive Branch Review Conference, the Federalist Society's Practice Groups hosted an expert panel on th...

The Federalist Papers Book Club ran weekly on Tuesday evenings for 10 one-hour sessions beginning January 26th 2021. This session covers Fed...

The Federalist Papers Book Club ran weekly on Tuesday evenings for 10 one-hour sessions beginning January 26th 2021. This session covers Fed...

The Federalist Papers Book Club ran weekly on Tuesday evenings for 10 one-hour sessions beginning January 26th 2021. This session covers Fed...

On February 15, 2021, Erin M. Hawley and Jennifer Nou joined the Federalist Society's Chicago Student Chapter for a discussion on the future...

After living in relative obscurity since its passage in 1996, the Congressional Review Act caught the nation's attention in 2017 when a Repu...

In this presentation co-sponsored by the Federalist Society's Article I Initiative and Columbia Student Chapter, Professor Christopher J. Wa...

On November 17, 2020, the Federalist Society's Article I Initiative and the Little Rock Lawyers Chapter co-hosted a webinar on Supreme Court...

On November 2, 2020, the Federalist Society's Illinois Student Chapter hosted Logan Beirne for a discussion of the history of presidential p...

On October 29, the Penn and Temple Student Chapters of the Federalist Society hosted former officemates and leading scholars of presidential...

To celebrate Constitution Day, the Rutgers Law School chapter of the Federalist Society hosted Dr. Colleen Sheehan, one of the nation's lead...

Recently we were saddened to learn of the passing of Senator Tom Coburn. In this episode we bring you some highlights from a panel he partic...

On March 14, 2020, the Federalist Society held its 39th National Student Symposium. The Symposium was originally scheduled to be held at the...

Description: On January 16 Penn State Law's Federalist Society Chapter co-hosted an impeachment dicussion featuring Professors Heidi Kitross...

Jason Foster of Good Government Now shares his experiences as counsel to four congressional committees in the U.S. House and Senate, where h...

Can Congress enforce subpoenas they issue? Dr. William Murphy, Founder and President of Good Government Now, joins the Article I Initiative...

A discussion of National Security and Executive Power, recorded on October 10 at the Georgetown Law Center.