Adopts anti-commandeering argument advanced by WILL in amicus brief
May 14, 2018 -- Milwaukee -- In an opinion released Monday morning, the United States Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting states from authorizing sports gambling. In finding that the law unconstitutionally ...
EPA air quality regulations could cripple Sheboygan economy
May 1, 2018 – Milwaukee, WI – Today WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg explained to a United States Congressional subcommittee how a proposed EPA air quality regulation would turn Sheboygan County into a “no growth ...
Esenberg advocates for transparency of cost of "free" federal money
February 15, 2018 - Milwaukee, WI - Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg testified in Madison today regarding AB 879, a first-in-the-nation bill to require transparency ...
July 6, 2017 – Milwaukee, WI – Recently Speaker Paul Ryan’s Task Force on Intergovernmental Affairs met for its inaugural hearing. The bipartisan task force is chaired by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and has a stated aim of examining “ways to restore the balance of power between the federal ...
WILL Associate Counsel and Federalism Litigator Jake Curtis writes in The Federalist:
Lost in the flurry of the campaign season, three weeks ago Reps. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington) introduced H.J. Res. 100. The resolution proposes an amendment to the U.S. ...
CCF Director and WILL Senior Fellow Mario Loyola, along with WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg, produce a new report that outlines how the federal government coerces states, bloats their budgets, and manipulates policy that should be rightly left to each individual state to ...