Paper and clocks are associated with first wedding anniversaries, or so the gift guides say. As the United States reaches the one-year mark in its increasingly dysfunctional and…
Read more An Unhappy Anniversary: Trump’s Year in OfficeThere are distinctive aspects to both of the transgender-athletes cases. For one thing, Hecox has changed her mind about bringing the case—she has said that she no longer…
Read more The Supreme Court Gets Back to WorkFourteen men have served as President of the United States since Franklin D. Roosevelt left office, and almost all of them have been imperial presidents in the FDR…
Read more Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1945 to 1969In two previous blog posts, I argued that every President from 1881 to 1921 had successfully defended the President’s power to remove at will all officers exercising executive…
Read more Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1921 to 1933WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservatives sounded ready on Monday to overrule Congress and give President Trump more power to fire officials at independent agencies and commissions. The justices heard…
Read more Supreme Court sounds ready to give Trump power to oust officials of independent agenciesThe 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 emergency appeal to the high…
Read more Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow it to fire head of US Copyright OfficeNA 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 visas, which are used by…
Read more Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa FeeBy hiking tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump effectively imposed one of the largest tax hikes in American history—and…
Read more Trump’s planned farm bailout should require congressional approvalAI-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. v. Trump. The panel decision in…
Read more Fifth Circuit Will Rehear Alien Enemies Act Case En BancThis 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 whether there is anything to…
Read more Will a shutdown finally shrink government?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. Within days, Kimmel’s show was…
Read more Brendan Carr says networks must serve the ‘public interest.’ What does that mean?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, which are used by tech…
Read more Trump’s Harmful and Illegal Plan to Gut H-1B Visas by Imposing $100,000 FeesIn separate attacks this month, the U.S. military blew up two speedboats in the Caribbean Sea, killing 14 alleged drug smugglers. Although those men could have been intercepted…
Read more Trump has a habit of asserting broad, unreviewable authorityA 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) On September 2, at President…
Read more Trump’s Unjust and Illegal Killing of 11 VenezuelansIs Donald Trump tired yet of all the losing? During the past week alone, federal judges across the country have rejected some of the most important and far-reaching…
Read more How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week?A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Mar. 16,…
Read more Fifth Circuit Rules Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act is IllegalAfter the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against his tariffs last week, President Donald Trump repeatedly condemned the decision, which he preposterously warned will…
Read more The rationale for the federal circuit’s ‘radical left’ tariff decision is fundamentally conservativeIn ruling against the sweeping tariffs that President Donald Trump purported to impose under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
Read more The federal circuit’s tariff ruling highlights the audacity of Trump’s power grabNA Today the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against President Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs in VOS Selections v. Trump, a case filed by…
Read more Federal Circuit Rules Against Trump’s Massive IEEPA Tariffs in Our Case Challenging ThemIt’s been nearly two weeks since President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation’s capital. But while the crime crackdown has yielded somewhat underwhelming results—”nearly 2,000…
Read more $500 million to paint the border wall? 5 of Trump’s strangest, most expensive vanity projects