Brett Kavanaugh: “So there could be a risk in writing the opinion, of lock-in effect, of making a snap judgment and putting it in writing…”

The government may not target a business or industry through stringent and allegedly unlawful regulation, and then evade the resulting lawsuits by claiming that the targets of its regulation should be locked out of court as unaffected…

We’re nine independent people.

But determining the nationally uniform interim legal status for several years of, say, the Clean Power Plan or Title IX regulations or mifepristone rules is a role that the American people appropriately expect this court — and not only the…

In short, the Hobbs Act affords judicial review to those who were parties before the commission.