Agencies taking power Congress never gave them

There is no better time in recent history to be practicing constitutional law than now. And the best soil for that rewarding work is administrative law. For over eight decades, perhaps longer, we have witnessed the rise and rise of the Administrative State, as scholar Gary Lawson describes it, a fourth branch of government that has increasingly expanded beyond its constitutional guardrails to exert insidious, expansive, and largely unacknowledged power over the lives, livelihoods, prospects, economic freedom and civil liberties of Americans and their enterprises…