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Are Administrative Law Judges Constitutional?
How do administrative law judges (or ALJ’s) fit into the structure of the Constitution? Professor Jennifer Mascott explores some of the roles that ALJ’s perform, including executive adjudication (applying the law to facts - a practice that has happened since the beginning of the United States) and making decisions of greater importance (for instance, to take away liberty or property, which is given to judges under Article III of the Constitution). Determining when an ALJ is exercising an appropriate scope of power under Articles I, II, and III raises complicated questions of Constitutional law. https://youtube.com/watch?v=hHEQO57OC3I