During the 35-day partial government shutdown, many Americans got an overdue civics lesson in all the useful things government does.
Thomas O. McGarity
Thomas O. McGarity holds the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Administrative Law at the University of Texas School of Law and is a board member at the Center for Progressive Reform. He is the author of The Preemption War.
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The Congressional Review Act: A Damage Assessment
How Trump’s Republicans have used an obscure Gingrich-era law to eviscerate health, safety, labor, environmental, and financial protections
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Trumping State Regulators and Juries
The right backs states’ rights when that’s convenient—but uses federal preemption to overrule blue state policies.