Senate's Tax Bill Will Add $270 Billion to the Deficit Next Year, Despite Gimmicks
The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
The Supreme Court just declined this morning to consider this issue, but here's how a noted lower court judge analyzed the matter.
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Justice Kavanaugh's Trump v. CASA concurrence appears to reply to Judge Ho.
Justice Kagan said "it just can't be right" that a single court judge can stop a federal policy in its tracks nationwide.
Other countries have taken meaningful steps to address similar challenges. The U.S. has done nothing.
They face severe persecution if deported to Iran.
Two worthwhile commentaries on the Supreme Court's decision to curtail universal injunctions.
A New Deal–era program nearly eradicated the sacred Navajo-Churro sheep—and still reverberates through the Navajo Nation today.
America is slipping steadily down the slippery slope to a surveillance state.
The Supreme Court's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton weakens the First Amendment rights of adults everywhere.
Democratic critics of the new program overlook the injustice of permanently disarming Americans who pose no threat to public safety.
Marcy Rheintgen was the first person to be arrested for trying to challenge Florida's bathroom bill. The case against her has been tossed out.
The Supreme Court may have reached the wrong result in FCC v. Consumers Research. But ruling emphasizes there are significant constitutional limits to legislative delegation to the executive.
“Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch,” declared Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Today's Supreme Court ruling barring nationwide injunctions could empower the federal government to engage in large-scale violations of the Constitution. Exactly how bad the consequences will be depends on the extent to which other remedies can be used to forestall them.
Other than the Chief, Justice Kagan wrote the fewest opinions.
The two newest justices spar over universal injunctions.
Justice Barrett writes for the Court's majority that universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable power of federal courts.
The NO FAKES Act imposes censorship, threatens anonymity, and regulates innovation.
The deployment of National Guard soldiers on a DEA drug raid is a serious test of whether the Posse Comitatus Act means something or not.
This pivot to privately funded research could reduce the burden on taxpayers and lead to more scientific breakthroughs.
"it is clear that he, at the very best, acted with culpable neglect of his professional obligations."
Any decisions made by U.S. Steel's executives and shareholders will require approval from Trump, his appointees, or his successors.
It explains how these much-maligned doctrines can be valuable tools for constraining power grabs by presidents of both parties.
The significance of the Supreme Court's decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County
The liberal justice faults the majority for leaving deportees to “suffer violence in far-flung locales.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) discusses the War Powers Resolution he co-sponsored with Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.), the Israel-Iran conflict, and why the antiestablishment left and right must work together.
Hochul's plan for the government to lead in building a new nuclear power plant is a surprising one, given New York's history of using top-down policies to shut down the energy source.
Presidents have chafed against the War Powers Resolution since it was first signed.
They are prominent legal scholars and Supreme Court litigators from opposite sides of the political spectrum.
And the court declines to so find when the proposed class counsel filed a brief containing "a wholesale fabrication of quotations and a holding on a material issue" (presumably stemming from using AI and not adequately checking its output).
A lawsuit against the genomics company "imposes top-down restrictions" rather than "establishing clear rules" or "letting companies equip individuals with better tools to manage their privacy," says one expert.
Plus: housing reform is killed in Connecticut, bonus ADUs are gutted in San Diego, and two decades of Supreme Court-enabled eminent domain abuse.
Publicly funded homes in some cities are costing taxpayers more than $1 million per unit, but Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase funding for these inefficient projects.
The Senate parliamentarian says the 10-year AI moratorium may be passed by a simple majority through the Senate's budget reconciliation process.
"If H.B. 71 goes into effect, Students will be subjected to unwelcome displays of the Ten Commandments for the entirety of their public school education. There is no opt-out option," the court's opinion reads.
Plus: A criminal justice case that managed to unite Alito and Gorsuch.
The parliamentarian ruled it cannot be enacted as part of a reconciliation bill not subject to the filibuster.
How the Colorado Supreme Court has nullified Colorado constitutional limits on taxes, debt, and corporate privilege.
For some restaurants in the state, local shrimp sales account for 90 percent of their revenue.
On this anniversary, I have posted two new articles related to one of the Supreme Court's most controversial decisions.
The strikes violate both the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Act. Whether they are good policy is a more difficult question. This could turn out to be a rare instance where one of Trump's illegal actions has beneficial results.
Trump's attack on Iran plainly violates the War Powers Act. Limits on executive power are most important when they are inconvenient.