Policy Corner

When the Supreme Court interprets a statute, its job is to say what the law is—not what it should be. If Congress disagrees with the result and wants the statute to mean something else, the Constitution provides it with the tool to do so: amend the statute. Yet this legislative response remains chronically underused.

Following the Chatrie decision, a Mississippi judge found warrant requests for cell tower dumps do not establish probable cause or particularity requirements, making them unconstitutional general warrants.

The Loper Bright decision not only impacts existing regulations but has implications for interpreting newly passed legislation. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a sweeping, bipartisan housing bill, was enacted on July 11, 2026, and any legal challenges regarding unclear or ambiguous language will receive judicial, not agency, deference.

Ilana joins the show to discuss July’s sharp drop in homebuilding and home-buying, as well as the housing policies of the Democrat Socialists. (Interviews starts at 13:20)

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, Congress’ marquee bipartisan housing bill, became law on July 11 with some welcome deregulatory reforms. But it also significantly expands the federal government’s role in housing policy, a domain that should largely be left to state and local governments.

Americans for Prosperity recently published a report explaining why each summer Congress should legislatively respond to Supreme Court decisions interpreting federal statutes.

These reforms will go a long way towards restoring affordability and opportunity to North Carolinians.

Congress should amend IEEPA to restrain emergency tariff powers after the Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump.

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 […]

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.