Mila Sohoni is a Professor of Law and the John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, where she teaches Federal Courts and Civil Procedure.
This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. The best that can be said for Trump v. CASA is that it could have been far worse.
The Supreme Court today refused to resurrect the nondelegation doctrine, the long-dormant principle that Congress cannot transfer its power to legislate to another branch of government.
At Tuesday’s oral argument in Gundy v. United States, the justices took up an important case involving the nondelegation doctrine — the rule that Congress cannot transfer its power to legislate to another branch of government without specifying an “intelligible principle” to guide its delegate.
Over 12 years ago, Congress enacted the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. One provision of SORNA created a requirement that a convicted sex offender register with every jurisdiction in which he resides, works or studies, as well as in the jurisdiction in which he was convicted.