Aaron Baum
aaronbaum.bsky.social
Aaron Baum
@aaronbaum.bsky.social
Formerly US Treasury, now Harvard Law

Admin law, climate/clean energy, intl econ, + other unrelated interests
Was a pleasure to work with @jtlew3.bsky.social to uncover the Trump Admin's efforts to smuggle sweeping policy changes into settlements with friendly private parties. As we argue, CASA's bar on universal injunctions might provide a new barrier to this tactic.
The executive branch is using consent decrees to dismantle regulations without notice-and-comment.

@jtlew3.bsky.social and Aaron Baum argue that courts must scrutinize these tactics to prevent the judiciary from enabling unlawful deregulation.

👉 www.justsecurity.org/121057/trump...
Trump’s Use of Consent Decrees to Dismantle Policy
The administration has turned consent decrees into a deregulatory weapon, and courts are beginning to confront the limits of that strategy.
www.justsecurity.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Sharing my blog with Harvard Law Review, inc. two examples of lower courts' disparate readings of Loper Bright's "statutory stare decisis" instruction, response to Prof. Jonathan Remy Nash's very helpful piece on this topic, + implications for Trump Admin's anti-regulatory blitz
How Much of the Regulatory State is Safe Post–Loper Bright? | H
Federal courts cited Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council over 18,000 times in the four decades before its downfall in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. But Chief Justice Roberts
harvardlawreview.org
December 21, 2024 at 5:58 PM