Later this year, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue rulings in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. U.S. Department of Commerce, which could rein in the power of unelected government officials to make laws well beyond what Congress authorized. In the new issue of the Columbus Bar Association’s Lawyers Quarterly, The Buckeye Institute’s David C. Tryon looks at the end of Chevron deference and what comes next.

To the IRS and state tax collectors, your money looks a lot like theirs—especially today, when tax returns and taxes owed are due. Writing checks for the government to cash always hurts, but it could be worse. The Buckeye Institute has helped reduce state taxes in Ohio, and championed tax reforms with think tanks across the country to help spur growth and relieve tax burdens.

Home distilling is illegal under federal law, but represented by The Buckeye Institute John Ream is challenging that prohibition in Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury, arguing that homemade spirits are a hobby as American as apple pie. The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt joins Anna Staver on All Sides to discuss the case.

An engineer and brewer thought he would take up home distilling as a hobby, but he then learned it’s a federal crime. In Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury, he’s fighting back. The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt, John Ream’s attorney, explains.

After spending two years mulling over a new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rule that would require all publicly traded companies to prepare and release emissions reports, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently unveiled its scheme. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is challenging this draconian rule and rightly noted in filing the lawsuit that “the regulator of the stock market has no business setting environmental policy for the county.”

On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases related to “jawboning”—Murthy v. Missouri and NRA v. Vullo. The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt joins FedSoc’s Courthouse Steps Preview to discuss what is at stake in the two cases. The conversation features Alt; Will Duffield, policy analyst at Cato Institute; and was moderated by Casey Mattox, vice president for legal and judicial strategy with Americans for Prosperity.

For Georgia Public Policy Foundation, Rea S. Hederman Jr. writes, “Federal stimulus has run dry, but sustainable tax reforms offer a proactive way to keep state reserve funds flush while returning tax dollars to families and businesses that will put them to good use. Those reforms will make Georgia more attractive to prospective employers and their workers, and the state will be better for it in the long run.”

Cleveland.com features The Buckeye Institute’s new class action lawsuit against the city of Cleveland. “The Buckeye Institute sued the city of Cleveland on Wednesday on behalf of suburbanites who failed to get their income tax refunds within a 90-day period. At issue are city laws that require Cleveland to pay interest if refunds aren’t issued within 90 days of a taxpayer filing their return.” Wos v. Cleveland was filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

In The Columbus Dispatch, The Buckeye Institute’s client John Ream explains why he is suing the federal government to overturn the federal ban on home distilling. “If Congress can prohibit me from home distilling, what is to stop it from banning home bread baking, vegetable gardening, fixing up the family Ford in the driveway, and practically anything else?” Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division.

Rea S. Hederman Jr., executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute, joins Next Round to discuss its new report, “Net-Zero Climate-Control Policies Fail Farmers and Families.” The report looks at the impact the Biden administration’s climate-control policies will have on farmers and families. Farm operating costs is estimated to increase by 34%, annual grocery bills will increase $1,330, and the cost of basic food items will increase more than 70%. Rea discusses how California’s farmers and families could be particularly hard hit.