ADMIN LAW ISN'T SEXY
But it's vital to MAGA.
Administrative law isn’t sexy. It contains very little stirring rhetoric. It involves no courtroom dramatics. Administrative law is the long, slow persistent plodding towards a goal and very few politicos are good at it.
Why? The inability to maneuver this political loophole, the forcing of federal agencies to do your bidding, may be grounded in American schools no longer teaching civics. Federal agency directives can seem shocking to the American public who don’t vote for the leadership at the FBI, or the ATF, or the EPA.
But if the conservative movement focuses on learning the ins and outs of federal agencies, it will achieve so much more. As this Substack revealed, the United States Commission on Civil Rights met on issues this year that directly affect J6ers.
Yet very few Americans, and even fewer conservative Americans, provide comment on these important deliberations. Regulations.gov is open daily for Americans to provide feedback on federal agency policy changing our lives. But many rules are imposed on us without any pushback at all.
A classic example is offshore windfarms. Did you vote for offshore windfarms? I didn’t — none of us did. Yet the collaboration between the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) make these whale killing monstrosities possible. Offshore windfarms are a classic example of the federal exercise of administrative law.
You may think making a public comment is the calling of the agitator: the lobbyist, the unionist. Not so. American federal agencies are required to review every single public comment, and often use public input to change both internal and external course. Comments can remain anonymous. Comments from laymen, from the “man on the street” are just as valuable. I know this because when I worked for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), in both Trump and Obama years, I watched USPTO attorneys pore over public comments for weeks.
The mentality that “someone else will do it” is toxic beyond words. No, someone else will not do it. Is that five minutes spent scrolling Facebook or Twitter/X really more valuable than making a public comment? Feel free to tell me why in the comments.
Leslie Knope of Parks and Recreation, the first mainstream media character who knew her admin law.