A case about legislative power that could affect hundreds of thousands of sex offenders is coming to the U.S. Supreme Court next term.
The dispute applies a mundane-sounding legal doctrine against the controversial backdrop of sex offender registration.
The “nondelegation” question the justices agreed to take up March 5 asks whether Congress was allowed to let the Attorney General decide how to retroactively apply the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
The case could mark a step toward “reining in administrative agencies by telling Congress that it can’t keep passing the buck to them,” the libertarian Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro ...