What if the President Tries to Annex Greenland and Canada?
Trump's new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense.
Trump's new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense.
Impoundment, line-item vetoes, and the tricky problem of cutting spending through the executive branch
This is a key issue in cases seeking to limit executive branch power grabs, including Trump's tariffs. Judge Ryan Nelson (a conservative Trump appointee) explains why the president is not exempt from the doctrine.
A new executive order would keep the Corporation for Public Broadcasting alive while telling it to cut off the two biggest public broadcasting networks. Get ready for a legal fight.
The Trump-appointed judge found that the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act "exceeds the scope of the statute and is contrary to the plain, ordinary meaning of the statute's terms."
Federal district court Judge Fernando Rodriguez ruled that Trump invoked the AEA illegally, and that migrants threatened with deportation under the Act can file class action habeas petitions.
Sen. Rand Paul's attempt to end the non-existent economic emergency failed to pass the Senate on Wednesday night.
I was interviewed by attorney/podcaster Irina Tsukerman.
Presidential power must stem from the Constitution or a statute, and the tariffs imposed by President Trump are unauthorized by statute, making them both unlawful and unconstitutional.
The president’s sweeping import levies have no basis in the statute he cites.
So much for unleashing American energy.
I was one of 35 legal scholars who took part.
A new ACLU lawsuit argues that the government still is not giving alleged gang members the "notice" required by a Supreme Court order.
Small businesses and a dozen states have filed a pair of lawsuits challenging Trump's authority to impose tariffs on board games, clothes, and lots of other things.
The suit resembles previous ones on the same subject filed by the state of California, and by the Liberty Justice Center and myself.
The court ruled that Trump invoked the AEA illegally, blocks deportation of Venezuelan migrants who filed the case, and sets out standards for notifying them of their rights to challenge their deportation.
Two of his targets are seeking permanent injunctions against the president's blatantly unconstitutional executive orders.
Signers include Steve Calabresi, Harold Koh, Richard Epstein, Michael McConnell, Alan Sykes, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and others.
The degree of agreement among participants with major ideological diferences is striking.
The motion was filed today, and sets out our case in detail.
It explains why the IEEPA "Liberation Day" tariffs are illegal and how our case against them relates to the other three cases challenging Trup's tariffs.
“The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions.”
The Liberty Justice Center and I filed the case on Monday.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says the evidence indicates that the government "willfully disobeyed" his order blocking removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
I was interviewed by Caleb Brown of Cato.
They challenge both the "Liberation Day" IEEPA tariffs, and earlier ones imposed on Canada, Mexico and China.
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected that claim, upholding the right to due process in deportation cases.
Several businesses harmed by Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs have filed a lawsuit challenging his use of emergency economic powers.
The taxpayer-funded think tank cloaked elite impunity and American interventionism in the language of liberalism.
Richard Nixon infamously drafted an "enemies list" of people he wanted to go after. At least Trump conducts his corruption out in the open.
It was filed today in the US Court of International Trade.
They argue the tariffs violate the constitutional separation of powers and their tribal treaty rights.
Trump lost on his most aggressive claims of executive power for the second time in a week.
"Nor is it taking a new approach."
Unanimous ruling is a big win for immigrant rights. But it does have unfortunate ambiguities.
Even after Trump paused some of his new tariffs for 90 days, we still have the highest average tariffs in over a century and the biggest trade war since the Great Depression. Real relief will only come if Congress or the courts deny Trump the power to do this.
The president’s preferential treatment of fossil fuels will cost consumers.
We need a district judge to enter a nationwide injunction putting a stop to these huge unilateral, presidential tax increases on ordinary working-class people.
But 10% tariffs are still being imposed on nearly all countries, without any letup. And we are still moving ahead with our lawsuit challenging them.
In the span of a week, Trump cratered the stock market and brought it much of the way back, with little more than public statements.
The Supreme Court did not answer two of the biggest legal questions raised by Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
Bills introduced Tuesday in the House and Senate would terminate the emergency declaration Trump issued last week.
The president is politically targeting those he says politically targeted him.
Although the Court lifted an order that temporarily blocked removal of suspected gang members, it unambiguously affirmed their right to judicial review.
The Supreme Court oveturns lower court decisions temporarily barring AEA deportations, but also emphasizes that detainees are entitled to due process, and that AEA deportations are subject to judicial review.
Did the 25th president really make America "very rich through tariffs"? William McKinley might have told you otherwise.
The Supreme Court seems likely to agree that a member of the National Labor Relations Board may be fired by the president at will.
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the president's imposition of tariffs, a lawsuit alleges.
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