The Administrative Court System Turned Their Lives Upside Down
Russell Fincher’s fight with a government agency is something of a David and Goliath tale. In Fincher’s story, Goliath has regulatory power over stones and slings, as well as superhuman strength…
Fincher is one among many Americans who have found themselves caught up in a legal system overseen by federal agencies that write and enforce their own rules…
Critics say the administrative law system bullies and threatens people into admitting to violations without regard for their right to present their own cases.
“In its worst excesses it is completely unconstitutional,” Peggy Little, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told The Epoch Times.
“We have a pact in the Constitution that we are to be governed by laws passed by Congress, not rules made by unelected administrators and bureaucrats,” she said.
Administrative law has been a concept for almost as long as there has been government.
In his book “Is Administrative Law Unlawful?” Philip Hamburger, author and New Civil Liberties Alliance CEO, said the genesis of administrative law in the United States can be traced back to the English monarchy, which claimed a divine right to rule over the people…
January 27, 2026
Originally Published in The Epoch Times