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An Unhappy Anniversary: Trump’s Year in Office
[ad_1] Paper and clocks are associated with first wedding anniversaries, or so the gift guides say. As the United States reaches the one-year mark…
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The Supreme Court Gets Back to Work
[ad_1] There are distinctive aspects to both of the transgender-athletes cases. For one thing, Hecox has changed her mind about bringing the case—she has…
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Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1945 to 1969
[ad_1] Fourteen men have served as President of the United States since Franklin D. Roosevelt left office, and almost all of them have been…
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Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1921 to 1933
[ad_1] In two previous blog posts, I argued that every President from 1881 to 1921 had successfully defended the President’s power to remove at…
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Supreme Court sounds ready to give Trump power to oust officials of independent agencies
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservatives sounded ready on Monday to overrule Congress and give President Trump more power to fire officials at independent agencies…
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Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow it to fire head of US Copyright Office
[ad_1] The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office.The administration’s newest…
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
[ad_1] NA Yesterday, a broad coalition of groups filed the first lawsuit challenging President Trump’s imposition of a $100,000 fee on applications for H-1B…
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Trump’s planned farm bailout should require congressional approval
[ad_1] By hiking tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump effectively imposed one of the largest…
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Fifth Circuit Will Rehear Alien Enemies Act Case En Banc
[ad_1] AI-generated image. Earlier this week the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided to grant an en banc rehearing in W.M.M.…
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Will a shutdown finally shrink government?
[ad_1] This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss whether the impending government shutdown will actually rein in the federal bureaucracy. They consider…
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Brendan Carr says networks must serve the ‘public interest.’ What does that mean?
[ad_1] On his ABC late-night show last Monday, Jimmy Kimmel criticized President Donald Trump and his followers for their actions since Charlie Kirk’s murder.…
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Trump’s Harmful and Illegal Plan to Gut H-1B Visas by Imposing $100,000 Fees
[ad_1] The president recently issued an executive “proclamation” imposing a $100,000 fee on applications for H-1B visas. This would effectively end most such visas,…
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Trump has a habit of asserting broad, unreviewable authority
[ad_1] In separate attacks this month, the U.S. military blew up two speedboats in the Caribbean Sea, killing 14 alleged drug smugglers. Although those…
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Trump’s Unjust and Illegal Killing of 11 Venezuelans
[ad_1] A General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper practices landings at March Air Reserve Base on Thursday, Aug 17, 2023 in Moreno Valley, Calif. (Dylan Stewart/AP/Newscom) …
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How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week?
[ad_1] Is Donald Trump tired yet of all the losing? During the past week alone, federal judges across the country have rejected some of…
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Fifth Circuit Rules Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act is Illegal
[ad_1] A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in…
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The rationale for the federal circuit’s ‘radical left’ tariff decision is fundamentally conservative
[ad_1] After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against his tariffs last week, President Donald Trump repeatedly condemned the decision,…
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The federal circuit’s tariff ruling highlights the audacity of Trump’s power grab
[ad_1] In ruling against the sweeping tariffs that President Donald Trump purported to impose under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the U.S.…
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Federal Circuit Rules Against Trump’s Massive IEEPA Tariffs in Our Case Challenging Them
[ad_1] NA Today the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against President Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs in VOS Selections v.…
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$500 million to paint the border wall? 5 of Trump’s strangest, most expensive vanity projects
[ad_1] It’s been nearly two weeks since President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation’s capital. But while the crime crackdown has…