On January 21, ICE agents in Portland, Maine, arrested Emanuel Landila, an asylum seeker from Angola, legally working as a corrections officer recruit. “Good afternoon.” Hours later, Cumberland…
Read more Video: Local Sheriffs Voice Frustration With ICE“Border czar” Tom Homan. (Holden Smith/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) Earlier today, Trump “border czar” Tom Homan announced that Operation Metro Surge – the massive deployment of some 3000 federal immigration enforcement…
Read more Lessons of the End of Trump’s ICE “Surge” in MinnesotaAndrii Yalanskyi/Dreamstime.com Donald Trump announced today he plans to ban the purchase of single-family homes by large institutional investors. As with many Trump actions, this is not…
Read more Barring Institutional Investors From Buying Homes Won’t Make Housing More Affordable – and Would Likely Make Things WorseDemocracy is a powerful and dangerous force, as America and the European democracies are discovering. Elites on both sides of the Atlantic haven’t done a very good job…
Read more Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’Steven Cukrov | Dreamstime.com US News and World Report just published an op ed I coauthored with four other legal scholars entitled “Colleges Must Reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ To…
Read more US News and World Report Article Urging Colleges to Reject Trump’s “Compact” With Higher EducationNA Earlier today, in Illinois v. FEMA a federal district court ruled the Trump administration cannot deny federal disaster relief aid to “sanctuary” states that limit assistance to…
Read more Federal Court Rules Trump Can’t Deny Federal Disaster Relief Funds to Sanctuary StatesAmerica’s electoral system has always been subject to—by design—a shifting balance of local control, state authority, and federal oversight. That balance is once again under strain, this time…
Read more How a fight over voter data could reshape American electionsNA Below is a video of the panel on “Federal Efforts to Combat Antisemitism: Restoring Campus Civil Rights or Infringing Academic Freedom?” from the recent Education Law and…
Read more Video of Education Law and Policy Panel on “Federal Efforts to Combat Antisemitism: Restoring Campus Civil Rights or Infringing Academic Freedom?”After 30 days, President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., has ended. But the use of federal troops in policing American cities could just be starting. On…
Read more Some red states are trying to take control of their blue citiesNA President Trump recently issued an executive order directing the Justice Department to penalize jurisdictions that allow cashless bail, by withholding federal funds from them: On Monday, President…
Read more Trump’s Unconstitutional Plan to Penalize States that Allow Cashless BailOn Monday, President Donald Trump, who has called cashless bail a “government-backed crime spree,” signed an executive order to end the policy nationwide. The order restricts the allocation…
Read more Trump directs DOJ to penalize states and cities that use cashless bailIf you search for “home still” on Amazon, you will see a bunch of products that are explicitly advertised as tools for producing liquor. But while it is…
Read more A ruling in favor of DIY distillers affirms limits on congressional powerCannabis in Court: When Federal Courts Will Hear Commercial Disputes Related to the Cannabis Business – Cannabis Business Executive – Cannabis and Marijuana industry news…
Read more Cannabis in Court: When Federal Courts Will Hear Commercial Disputes Related to the Cannabis Business – Cannabis Business Executive – Cannabis and Marijuana industry newsIn this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman contextualize Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel before bemoaning the recent vote in Congress…
Read more Congress does not come back with a warrantThere is quite a bit of hyperbole about immigration policy and the southern border these days. To take one prominent example, Texas Governor Greg Abbott suggests there is…
Read more No, Texas Has Not “Defied” The Supreme CourtMy forthcoming symposium article, “Empowering Hispanics to Vote With Their Feet” is now available on SSRN. It is part of the University of Houston’s annual Frankel Lecture symposium,…
Read more My Forthcoming Article on “Empowering Hispanics to Vote With Their Feet”(Routledge) My forthcoming review of Christopher Zurn’s book, Splitsville, USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States is now available on SSRN. It will be published…
Read more My Forthcoming Publius Review of Christopher Zurn, “Splitsville, USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States”The month before Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement in 2005, she dissented from Supreme Court decisions in two cases that illustrated the twin perils of local…
Read more Justice O’Connor’s parting dissents highlighted the twin perils of local tyranny and federal overreachJust over 10 years since Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, nearly two-fifths of the nation have persisted in the trend of allowing…
Read more Oklahoma’s marijuana rejection reveals pitfalls of push for full legalization – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
