Professional Licensure After Chiles: Reconciling The First And Tenth Amendments Jennifer D. Oliva,Kelly K. Dineen Gillespie,andHeather A. McCabe August 20, 2026

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/professional-licensure-after-chiles-reconciling-first-and-tenth-amendments Chiles, read closely, says only that a state may not draw an explicit viewpoint line on the face of a licensure statute. Beyond that line, where licensure regimes condition credentials on the profession’s own standards of care, states retain their power.