The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is seeking an injunction that would protect noncitizens at The Stanford Daily from arrest and removal because of their published work.
Sex offenders are supposed to be ineligible for minimum-security federal prison camps, but the rule was waived for Maxwell.
This is great news, but it also undercuts Donald Trump's claim that violent crime was out of control before he returned to office.
This isn't the first time FEMA has faced scrutiny for partisan bias.
The president is claiming "unbounded authority" to impose import taxes based on a law that does not mention them.
Reducing the government’s ownership of federal lands is the best way to protect against this energy policy whiplash.
The university's president has maintained that Harvard will not risk losing its academic freedom, and it may delay any settlement negotiations until after a final court ruling.
Plus: AI reanimations of those who've died, Elizabeth Warren x Zohran Mamdani, and more...
A federal court says U.S. citizens “are likely to succeed in showing” that immigration agents violated their rights.
Plus: IVF about-face, Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down, and more...
President Trump’s invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs faces skeptical judges.
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya defends open disagreement, criticizes groupthink, and argues that democracy depends on our ability to speak and listen across political and scientific divides.
And generations of allegedly anti-corruption Republicans just don't care.
Immigration officers are using more forceful tactics to keep up with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals.
Canada accounts for a tiny percentage of fentanyl smuggling, which cannot be stopped by trying harder.
A defense to Steve Vladeck's critique and a brief comment on Adrian Vermeule's related op-ed in the New York Times.
If so, then why postpone any enforcement until October?
Lawmakers say a new DHS rule requiring advance notice for detention center visits undermines congressional oversight.
Plus: DOGE postmortem, Mamdani's checked out, C.S. Lewis' wisdom for our digital age, and more...
American chocolatiers need imports, and tariffs help no one.
The former CIA analyst and Cato scholar discusses Palantir, Trump's new national database, and the sordid history of federal law enforcement on Just Asking Questions.
Even though the president has lost every time the orders have come before a judge, big law firms are still hesitant to upset the king and incur his wrath.
The campus' settlement with the federal government is bound to create free speech headaches.
Paola Clouatre had no previous convictions and was detained immediately following a green card interview.
The anticommandeering doctrine stands in the way of Trump’s immigration crackdown.
To win in court, the Trump administration will have to argue against a pair of legal theories that conservatives have spent years developing as a way to check executive power.
As a minority FCC member during the Bush administration, Carr condemned government interference with newsroom decisions.
The Department of Homeland Security is boasting that its mass deportation program is responsible for a major drop in crime. That's unlikely for several reasons.
And if Trump moves ahead with his threatened August 1 tariff hikes, prices will climb even more.
The Supreme Court's critics are too quick to assume the Court's orders are motivated by political considerations as opposed to principle.
Air traffic control is simply too important to leave up to the politicians.
Plus: regulating college sports, forgiving baseball’s legends, and Happy Gilmore 2
The Trump administration cut a deal with Venezuela to return a triple murderer to American shores while it tries to deport someone accused of much less.
Plus: Wealthy parents appease their zoomer socialist children, public broadcasting gets saved (by private donors), and more...
The 10 percent baseline reciprocal tariff rate was bad for America; the 15 percent rate is even worse.
Chairman Brendan Carr thinks his agency should strive to ensure that news coverage is fair and balanced—a role precluded by the First Amendment.
Trump believes he can deploy tariffs without tradeoffs or distortions. In reality, each new tariff move creates both.
Plus: The Columbia settlement as a "blueprint" for going after other universities, South Park lampoons Trump, and more...
The judgment is not surprising, since the president's reading of the 14th Amendment contradicts its text and history, plus 127 years of Supreme Court precedent.
The American AI industry doesn't need industrial policy, just freedom.
To reinstitute $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to implement plans to combat antisemitism and to appoint an independent monitor to oversee changes.
The executive branch wants to use the Federal Reserve as a tool to accommodate the government's frenzy of reckless borrowing.
Plus: Columbia settles, State Department releases murderer, and more...
By going through the courts, the Trump administration risks perpetuating the regulatory ping-pong that has plagued Washington, D.C., for decades.
Judge Bumatay objects on standing grounds, arguing that courts should not seek to offset narrowing one form of relief by expanding another: "That would be like squeezing one end of a balloon—it just pushes all the air to the other end."
Further indication that independent agencies will not be "independent" much longer.
The investigation comes only two days after a federal judge cast doubt on the Trump administration’s argument in Harvard’s lawsuit over federal funding.
Not only does it raise taxes on American consumers, but it leaves American automakers at a distinct disadvantage relative to their Japanese competitors.
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