‘A Tombstone on Chevron’

An unconstitutional seizure of judicial power is foiled at last by those who seek a more perfect union.

Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons
Philip Hamburger in 2016. Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons

When historians sit down to write the history of the campaign to end rule by administrative agencies one name will loom large — that of a professor of law at Columbia University, Philip Hamburger. He is the visionary who came to see more clearly than others the unconstitutionality of agencies creating ersatz in-house courts. In hindsight it looks like an obvious error, but it took Mr. Hamburger to levy the reform. Congratulations are in order.    

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