Judge Amy Berman Jackson recently ruled against CFPB Director Russell Vought in an important funding dispute, National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought. Without saying so, her opinion deferred to the funding-statute interpretation championed by previous CFPB director Rohit Chopra. This stealth deference not only flouted Loper Bright’s mandate to exercise independent judgment, it exceeded even…

When the pandemic shuttered the world and families were trapped inside their homes, parents got to pull back the veil on their children’s education, and they did not like what they saw. A precipitous uptick in non-traditional education aligns precisely with the pandemic. For instance, in 2025, homeschooling was “nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling…

Imagine if you will: Every week, the FBI visits the local self-storage business in your hometown and, with not even an inclination that a crime has occurred, searches the private papers and property kept inside. Or picture DEA agents on a nightly basis searching every car parked on the street in a high-crime area. Most…

With the recent departure of Commissioner Carolyn Crenshaw as the last remaining Democrat serving on the five-member Securities and Exchange Commission—leaving only the Republican Chairman and two fellow Republican Commissioners in place—President Trump has a golden opportunity to do something quintessentially Trumpian:  appoint two more Republicans to fill the two now-empty Democrat seats. Whatever the…