Federal District Court Issues Another Ruling Against Trump's IEEPA Tariffs
The decision by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District Columbia holds IEEPA doesn't authorize the president to impose tariffs at all.
The decision by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District Columbia holds IEEPA doesn't authorize the president to impose tariffs at all.
President Trump is entitled to try to execute his immigration policy. He is not entitled, however, to violate the Constitution.
This is a standard order imposing a brief stay of the trial court ruling, while the parties litigate the issue of whether a longer stay should be imposed.
The case involved a fully permitted railroad track in Utah that has yet to break ground because of environmental lawsuits.
Even readers who are profoundly distrustful of Jake Tapper should pick up a copy.
John Moore and Tanner Mansell were convicted of theft after they freed sharks they erroneously thought had been caught illegally.
It's a reversal from his first term, when Trump himself ordered the creation of a database tracking excessive use of force.
If the Trump administration fails to implement real reform, Main Street taxpayers could once again be conscripted into subsidizing lucrative Wall Street deals.
The Court of International Trade just issued a decision striking down Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs and other IEEPA tariffs.
Trump is wielding the state against a school whose politics he doesn't like.
The president's crusade against attorneys whose work offends him, which defies the First Amendment and undermines the right to counsel, has provoked several judicial rebukes.
Scott Jenkins was convicted of engaging in cartoonish levels of corruption. If the rule of law only applies to the little guy, then it isn't worth much.
The federal government will reportedly get a "golden share" in U.S. Steel, potentially allowing it to overrule shareholders on some decisions.
The good parts of his executive order could easily get mired in the swamp.
Lifting TPS status would make them eligible for deportation to Afghanistan, where the Taliban is likely to persecute and punish them.
Marty Makary grossly exaggerates the prevalence of adolescent nicotine addiction, the concern underlying his agency's restrictions on e-cigarette flavors.
The debate over free trade should include more than the costs of Trump's tariffs versus the value of cheaper stuff.
Legal scholar Rebecca Ingber offers some strong arguments against deference in this context.
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby rightly decries the GOP's inclusion of a tax on remittances immigrant workers send to their families, in the "Big Beautiful Bill."
While there is no constitutional right to receive grants, the Constitution does bar grant conditions that undermine constitutional rights.
Like that in the similar case filed by Liberty Justice Center and myself, this one indicated judicial skepticism of Trump's claims to virtually unlimited power to impose tariffs.
It's the best shield when the executive branch tries to strong-arm private universities.
A federal judge blocks the administration's "Student Criminal Alien Initiative," which targeted foreign students who had no criminal records.
Trump’s firing of a federal agency head may soon spell doom for a New Deal era precedent that limited presidential power.
Did mainstream conservatives and libertarians lose a generation of young men to the reactionary right?
Whether due to tariffs or because they are made in America, the result would be much higher prices.
Criticisms of the president's alleged flip-flopping on gain-of-function research funding miss some key context.
The "one big, beautiful bill" keeps the corporate welfare that Republicans claim to hate.
Can Trump do that, and what would it mean?
The lesson from the Moody's credit downgrade is that the U.S. cannot borrow its way to prosperity.
I was interviewed by Brittany Lewis of Forbes.
I will be speaking, along with Cato Institute scholar Walter Olson.
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That logic implausibly assumes presidents have the power to curtail substance abuse by attacking the drug supply.
A new Cato Institute study by David Bier presents the most extensive available evidence on these points.
Stephen Miller's trial balloon about abrogating habeas corpus in immigration cases shows how any libertarian with pragmatic intelligence should reject so-called "libertarian" arguments for strict immigration laws.
The 1866 debate over birthright citizenship included a debate over immigration.
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In a 2-1 ruling, the Court ruled Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act cannot supersede a settlement barring deportation of a group of migrants. One judge also held the AEA was invoked illegally.
Plus: A listener asks if the economic inequality data is bad.
Kovarsky and Rave defend the use of class actions in AEA habeas cases. Vladeck highlights the significance of the Supreme Court's grant of an injunction to a "putative class" of AEA detainees.
On the bright side, at least Trump finally admitted his tariffs are, indeed, paid by Americans.
The Administration isn't wrong to admit white South African migrants. But it is wrong to exclude all other refugees, including many fleeing far worse discrimination and oppression.
The brief is on behalf of the Cato Institute and myself.
The ruling held that migrants detained under AEA had not been given adequate notice of their potential deportation. It also reflects the Court's growing distrust of the Trump Administration.
A lot of conservatives are falling prey to the same snowflakery they criticize.
Nationwide illegality by the federal government requires a nationwide remedy.
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