Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC could have used a curmudgeonly dissent.
Corbin K. Barthold
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Americans have long rejected private delegation as an affront to representative government.
The FTC now wants to regulate working conditions, redistribute wealth, and promote favored firms and industries.
If history teaches us anything, it is that acting like “everything is up for grabs” is precisely what produces reigns of terror.
“The text of a law,” as the newest justice says, “is the law.”
Judges are not supposed to draft the laws they want; they are supposed to apply the laws they get from Congress.
We, however, are determined to learn whether responsible and disciplined—in a word, constitutional—government can survive the death of civic piety.
Corbin K. Barthold is Internet Policy Counsel at TechFreedom.