April 24, 2020 Blog DOJ Dismisses Indictment of Machine Gun Prosecution to Preserve Its Obamacare Arguments Obamacare’s individual mandate can no longer be sustained as a tax because Congress zeroed out any revenue, which benefits the target of an unrelated unconstitutional use of the taxing power. By Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro
June 21, 2018 Blog Bumping the Constitution to Ban Bump Stocks President Trump overreached when he directed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to “clarify” a law by rewriting it. By Josh Blackman, Ilya Shapiro, and Matthew Larosiere
March 13, 2017 Blog A Victory for Disability Rights and the Constitution Congress reverses an Obama administration “midnight regulation” that would’ve deprived vulnerable citizens of their Second Amendment rights. By Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman
July 5, 2016 Blog The Social Security Administration Shouldn’t Be Deciding Who’s Too “Mentally Defective” to Own a Gun A proposed rule would disarm anyone who asks for help with the paperwork related to Social Security disability benefits. By Ilya Shapiro, Josh Blackman, and Randal John Meyer
August 25, 2015 Blog Regulatory Incompetence (and King v. Burwell) Could Save the Nuns Cato files a brief supporting the latest challenge to Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate — with a twist. By Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman
