The Buckeye Institute recently filed Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury on behalf of John Ream of Licking County, Ohio, asking the court to overturn the federal government’s ban on the home distilling of spirited beverages and arguing that this ban exceeds Congressional authority and violates the Tenth Amendment. Robert Alt, president and CEO of The Buckeye Institute, discussed this important case at a forum hosted by The Federalist Society.

In The Wall Street Journal, The Buckeye Institute’s senior legal fellow Andrew M. Grossman argues that now is the time for the Supreme Court of the United States to end the misguided doctrine of Chevron deference, through which the courts defer to federal agencies’ interpretation of “ambiguous” statutes. Buckeye filed an amicus brief in support of federal courts reclaiming their proper role as interpreter of laws—ambiguous or otherwise.

The Buckeye Institute testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, a subcommittee of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. In his testimony, Andrew M. Grossman, a senior legal fellow at The Buckeye Institute, highlighted the “use and abuse of ‘sue and settle’ tactics in litigation against the government,” which Grossman noted, “seeks to compel [federal] agency action, set agency priorities, and (in some instances) influence the content of regulations or other agency actions.”
 

In The Wall Street Journal, Andrew M. Grossman, a senior legal fellow at The Buckeye Institute, and David B. Rivkin Jr., criticize pressure that New York state financial regulators are putting on insurers to “sever business relationships with gun promotion groups.” Grossman and Rivkin write, “It’s the classic threat of B-movie mobsters: Nice business you got there, it’d be a shame if something happened to it. Government shouldn’t operate like that, but it too often does, sometimes to evade the Constitution’s limits on its power.”

The Buckeye Institute announced that Andrew M. Grossman, a nationally-recognized attorney and constitutional scholar, has been named a senior legal fellow at The Buckeye Institute. Grossman is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of BakerHostetler LLP, where he serves as the appellate and major motions team co-leader. “Andrew Grossman adds an extraordinarily strategic perspective and tremendous capacity to our growing Legal Center. Few lawyers are more respected and trusted, and his experience and expertise will be invaluable assets to Buckeye’s work and the clients we serve.”

In The Wall Street Journal, Andrew M. Grossman, a senior legal fellow at The Buckeye Institute, and David B. Rivkin Jr., look at the question of independent state legislatures, writing, “The Supreme Court considers on Wednesday whether the Constitution’s Elections Clause means what it says—that ‘the times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.’”

In The Hill, Robert Alt and Andrew Grossman—lead attorneys representing clients in Maine, Minnesota, and Ohio—ask, “If it violates the First Amendment to compel financial support for union advocacy, how on earth can unions assert that they have the right to represent and speak for the unwilling?”

Ensuring law abiders are protected and law breakers are brought to justice.

With the industry-heavy Midwestern states up for grabs in the coming election, the Obama Administration has been touting its bailout of General Motors and Chrysler in support of exaggerated claims of upwards of 1.5 million auto industry jobs saved. This is the height of audacity.