Legal

For decades America’s legal system has applied radically different standards to ordinary Americans and left-leaning politicians, bureaucrats, and social issues. Now, we are witnessing an open campaign of lawfare against enemies of the establishment.

The Center for Renewing America is fighting to change the legal paradigms transforming this country. We are working within the legal system to challenge the woke and weaponized federal bureaucracy and hold progressive elected officials and bureaucrats accountable under the rule of law.

Policy Brief: The Threat of Judicial Tyranny Is Far from Over

July 29, 2025 | by Ken Cuccinelli

Efforts to reform the judicial branch are about ensuring that the American people remain sovereign and that no unelected branch of government can unilaterally dictate the nation’s destiny.

Primer: The President’s Power to Remove the Federal Reserve Chairman

July 16, 2025 | by Benjamin Osborne

It is fundamentally unconstitutional for an unelected official – one who wields immense influence over the nation’s monetary policy – to be shielded from meaningful oversight by elected officials.

On the Power of the President to Appoint his Magistrates

November 22, 2024 | by Jeff Clark, Anthony Licata

The Constitution provides for a President to discharge his electoral mandate with his people in place – the Administration’s “Officers of the United States” – even without swift Senate cooperation.

Impoundment Claim & Response

November 21, 2024 | by CRA Staff

Impoundment is constitutional and enjoys a long history of usage. Further, the restoration of impoundment—and the inherent understanding that appropriations are permissive ceilings and not mandatory floors—diminishes partisan political warfare and returns the federal government back to a healthier era where tension was vested more in separate branches of government and less in partisan differences and the courts.

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Primer: Utilizing Impoundment to Control Federal Spending

November 21, 2024 | by CRA Staff

If America’s national debt is to be brought to heel, inflation tamed, and deficits eliminated, the constitutional power of the Executive Branch to impound funds is a critical tool to accomplish this task.

Question and Answer: Recess Appointments

November 19, 2024 | by CRA Staff

The Recess Appointments Clause, Article II, Section 2, Clause 3, provides that the President “shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.”

Brief: On the Article II Recess Appointments Clause

November 17, 2024 | by Jeff Clark, Anthony Licata

The appointment power is vested in the President under the regime erected by Article II of the Constitution. Two clauses, in particular, grant this power: the Appointments Clause and the Recess Appointments Clause.

The President’s Constitutional Power of Impoundment

September 10, 2024 | by Mark Paoletta, Daniel Shapiro

Since the Founding, it has been understood that Article II vests the President with authority to decline to spend the full amount of an appropriated fund.