Power

About this Episode

Joe is at the airport for a special pre-roll segment. Then we say hello to Lisa Heinzerling, administrative law expert (5:23). After a substantive and goofy discussion of legislation and regulation courses (6:29), we discuss the development of what Lisa calls “the power canons” resulting from recent decisions of the Supreme Court (10:39). If you’re Congress, how do you write a statute meant to solve problems that might evolve in type or degree? Do you have the power to do so, or are you limited to speaking to the here and now? Does the Supreme Court have the power to limit legislative and regulatory power in this way?

This show’s links:

• Lisa Heinzerling’s faculty profile (including links to all her scholarship)
• Lisa Heinzerling and Mark Tushnet, The Regulatory and Administrative State (a legislation and regulation casebook)
• Lisa Heinzerling, The Power Canons
• Oral Argument 23: Rex Sunstein? (guest Ethan Leib)
• City of Arlington v. FCC (C.J. Roberts in dissent: “It would be a bit much to describe the result as ‘the very definition of tyranny,’ but the danger posed by the growing power of the administrative state cannot be dismissed.”)
• NCTA v. Brand X
• Richard Posner, The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia
• Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA
• King v. Burwell
• Michigan v. EPA
• Lisa Heinzerling, Inside EPA: A Former Insider's Reflections on the Relationship Between the Obama EPA and the Obama White House
• Oral Argument 28: A Wonderful Catastrophe (our Erie show)