Category: administrative state

Ramaswamy Unveils Plans to Eradicate FBI, Department of Education, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy detailed his vision for the administrative state at a New Hampshire town hall on July 20. Mr. Ramaswamy appeared on stage at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics to the strains of Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town.” The music video for Mr. Aldean’s song was pulled…


No, Trump Is Not Planning to Be a Dictator

Commentary The headline in the New York Times seems terrifying. “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.” The article explains that they “are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive…


Vivek Ramaswamy Makes Key Promises About Presidency at FreedomFest

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Republican primary run has been filled with promises, and often quite specific ones. In the months since he threw his hat in the ring, the candidate has caught the ear of libertarians and conservatives by pledging to shut down the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Education, and the Department of Education,…


The Greatest Victory of Liberty in Our Lifetime

Commentary Here we are on the Fourth of July 2023 wondering what has become of American liberty. On this very day, a federal judge in Texas has shown us that the cause is not hopeless. In a tremendous victory for free speech, the Bill of Rights, and freedom generally, Judge Terry A. Doughty has issued…


CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life

Commentary Keeping up with the corruption of the COVID regime feels like drinking from a firehose. The volume of the fraud, the pace of new discoveries, and the breadth of the operations are overwhelming. This makes it imperative for groups like Brownstone Institute to digest the onslaught of information and communicate salient themes and dispositive…


House Passes REINS Act to Curb Administrative State

The House passed a bill that would require major regulations from agencies to secure approval from Congress. The Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act made it through on June 14 with 221 yeas and 210 nays. The bill, also known as H.R. 277, can be read here. In the hours before…


Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns

Commentary It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of…


Two Tiers of Justice

Commentary The elite set of individuals that sit atop our federal agencies have completely weaponized our entire government apparatus. It is no longer a one-off “mistake,” but rather the intentional creation of a two-tier system of justice that has gone unchecked. The resulting impact is a death knell for American faith in all three branches…


The Paper of Record Fronts for the Deep State

Commentary There was hardly time in the day but I simply could not pull myself away from the discussion between Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., yesterday on Twitter Spaces. I was there mid-afternoon with nearly 70 thousand others listening to a live conversation on every topic from foreign policy to economics to civil…


House GOP Target Gas Stove Regulations, Power of Administrative State

After repeatedly failing to overturn Biden administration regulations in legislation, House Republicans are taking the next steps in their attempt to exert authority over the administrative state. Lawmakers discussed a series of bills intended to reach those ends during a June 5 Rules Committee hearing. “The Constitution articulates where the laws are made. It’s here…