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How Loper Bright is Reshaping Trade and Commerce Policy
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo began with Atlantic fishermen asking what gave Washington the right to make them pay for government monitors. Congress had never explicitly authorized industry-funded monitors for their fishery. The fishermen took their case to court and won, overturning the 1984 Chevron deference doctrine and ending the practice of courts deferring to agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous laws. The Loper Bright ruling opened the legal door for a broader deregulatory push that is […]
The Cameras on Your Street Are Tracking Your Politics
Automated license plate readers have become a national surveillance network that tracks not just where people drive, but what they believe. Until every search of that network requires a warrant, our freedom to speak, worship, and protest is at risk.
Congress Has the Floor: How Lawmakers Can Respond to Supreme Court Rulings
Every term, the Supreme Court hands down decisions interpreting federal statutes and, every summer, Congress largely stays silent. A new report from Americans for Prosperity, Congress Has the Floor: Legislative Opportunities After Supreme Court Statutory Interpretations, argues that this silence is a missed opportunity. The report makes a simple point: when the Supreme Court interprets […]
Recasting Energy Regulation After Loper Bright
Since the Loper Bright decision ended Chevron deference, lawmakers and regulators have made strong strides in cutting out costly and burdensome regulations responsible for hampering the energy industry.
Safe to Try: The Simplest Way to Accelerate Cures and Bring Down Prescription Drug Prices
The FDA’s decades-old requirement that drugs prove “efficacy” before approval has slowed access to promising treatments, raised costs, and left patients waiting. A “Safe to Try” approach would keep regulators focused on safety while allowing doctors and patients to decide what works.
Submission to Senate Finance Committee: Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers Can Support Social Security Solvency
Setting Social Security on track to fiscal stability could empower Congress to find other ways to improve value for both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
Americans For Prosperity Foundation, NCLA, and Buckeye Ask Supreme Court to End Inhouse Administrative Prosecutions
On Monday, Americans for Prosperity Foundation and the Buckeye Institute, joined an amicus brief the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in Department of Labor (“DOL”) v. Sun Valley Orchards, a constitutional challenge to an inhouse administrative tribunal in which the DOL wears multiple hats, acting as both the prosecutor and judge of its own cause to impose severe monetary penalties on private parties.
AFP Comment Letter on Medicaid State-Directed Payments Rule
On July 21, 2026, AFP submitted a public comment letter to the federal Medicaid agency in support of the Trump administration’s proposed Medicaid Program Integrity Rule, one of the most significant Medicaid integrity reforms in decades.
Kurt Couchman Joins ‘The Alan Nathan Show’
Kurt joins ‘The Alan Nathan Show’ to discuss the current state of government funding, the history of government shutdowns and how the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act could provide much needed accountability.
DSA Housing Policies: More Government, Less Housing
DSA housing policies would erode private property rights, greatly expand government intervention, and actually reduce the housing supply.
