Administrative/Regulatory,
Constitutional Law,
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep. 26, 2018
Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the administrative state
If Kavanaugh is confirmed, his jurisprudence will give enterprising litigants a strong incentive to bring more challenges to agency action before the Supreme Court.





Anne Voigts
Partner
King & Spalding LLP
Anne is a partner in the Appellate, Constitutional, and Administrative Law Group at King & Spalding LLP, who regularly handles constitutional issues and appeals.

Matthew V. Noller
Associate
King & Spalding LLP
Email: mnoller@kslaw.com
Univ of Georgia SOL; Athens GA

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is, as more than one commentator has put it, "the nation's pre-eminent administrative law court." As Judge Brett Kavanaugh observed in the Story Lecture at Harvard Law School, "the bread and butter of our docket on the D.C. Circuit is interpretation of statutes, usually when deciding whether an agency exceeded its statutory authority or statutory limits. That question of policing the balance between the le...
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