Because of the century-old Jones Act, U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico must use overpriced, outdated ships to import American LNG—while the Dominican Republic enjoys cheaper energy from the same source.
Dylan Landon |
As a result, shipping prices are dramatically cheaper.
Moreover, challenges to spending belong in the Court of Federal Claim, not in Federal District Court.
Josh Blackman |
True, a district court's jurisdiction "is not barred by the possibility" that an order setting aside an agency's action may result in the disbursement of funds.
VHS rentals, true-crime documentaries, and IT techs in the jury room.
John Ross |
You might think so, and so does the Third Circuit (and so does IJ, which urged this result in an amicus brief).
Instead of fixing its car, the team keeps shifting blame from driver to driver.
Rossana Pineyro |
As a result, the team finished a disappointing third in the constructors' standings.
The company previously dropped out of the Brazilian market for five years until the country relaxed its tariffs on video games.
Joe Lancaster |
Nintendo has responded by delaying orders of the Switch 2, its highly anticipated new gaming console, as a direct result of Trump's tariffs.
Dynamists, protectionists, hawks, and doves are seeing their policy goals realized in the most bungling and incompetent fashion imaginable.
Christian Britschgi |
Those disappointed by the results might continue to console themselves by saying it's better than what the alternative would have been.
The Supreme Court seems likely to agree that a member of the National Labor Relations Board may be fired by the president at will.
Damon Root |
As a result, the director of the CFPB "must be removable by the president at will."
Tariffs #1: Administration assumes that Trade Deficits are "the sum of all cheating."
Jim Lindgren |
But it now adopts it for tariffs: treating differences in results as essentially conclusive evidence of cheating and discrimination.
Salerno is "unique among these Chevron substitutes, in that the 'no set of circumstances' framework is far more favorable to the government than even Chevron ever was."
Josh Blackman |
For practitioners and scholars of administrative law, the crucial concrete result from VanDerStok is that the Court linked APA § 706(C) with facial review.
Attempting to defend Trump's tariffs, the White House points to studies that show they raise prices, cut manufacturing output, and lead to costly retaliation.
Erica York |
But the study's conclusions rest on highly questionable modeling assumptions designed to produce pro-tariff results.
Evan Bernick's fourth in a series of guest-blogging posts on birthright citizenship.
Evan Bernick |
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A small but growing bipartisan movement in the Senate is pushing back against the president's imposition of tariffs, but there's plenty of room to go further.
Joe Lancaster |
Even then, presidents can easily circumvent the 60-day limit: "From 1975 through 2003, Presidents have submitted 111 reports as the result of the War Powers Resolution, but only one…cited section 4(a)(1) which triggers the time limit, and in this case the military action was completed and U.S. armed forces had disengaged from the area of conflict when the report was made."
Lower-income families who spend the largest shares of their income on goods—and who have been badly hurt from the recent inflation—will likely suffer the most.
Veronique de Rugy |
Here's where things go from damaging to disastrous: If the administration follows through with both expensive new tariffs and more bailouts while simultaneously extending expiring tax cuts and adding new tax breaks without corresponding spending cuts, the result will be a fiscal black hole.
The DOJ's rather heavy-handed attempt to coerce an elected municipal official to do its bidding on immigration matters is firmly and properly rejected
David Post |
The district court in SDNY has dismissed the criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
"Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works," said Jankowicz.
Robby Soave |
v=sEqNclpaNwA&t=75s Jankowicz defended the American Sunlight Project's lack of transparency on grounds that she has personally faced bullying as a result of her antidisinfo advocacy, and she wished to spare her backers from such a fate.
More litigation is required to find out which kits and unfinished parts are subject to regulation.
J.D. Tuccille |
That's the result of the high court's 7–2 ruling last week in Bondi v.
can go forward in part, a federal trial judge concludes.
Eugene Volokh |
As a result of this intimidation, Jewish students have often stayed home or have been forced to take alternate routes to avoid Sather Gate.
Despite efforts to rein in government debt, gold prices keep rising—suggesting investors aren’t buying the promises of fiscal responsibility.
Jared Dillian |
Another possibility is that China, as well as many other foreign central banks, continue to buy gold as a result of sanctions against Russia, though they have slowed down recently.
Evan Bernick's second in a series of guest-blogging posts: Part II of a critique of an important defense of the constitutionality of Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.
Evan Bernick |
Chris Mirasola points out that what matters is whether the occupation is only temporary or results in the formal annexation of territory, as well as when the child is born.
The Court may have overruled Chevron, but it has just inadvertently created a far more powerful deference doctrine with Salerno, all in service of narrowly reversing the Fifth Circuit.
Josh Blackman |
For more than a decade, I have proudly represented Defense Distributed in a wide range of matters.
Innovation, basic research, and economic growth do not rely on federal science funding.
Zachary R. Caverley |
Note the cautious interpretation by the authors: "Our study results underscore that the development of basic discoveries requires substantial additional investments, partnerships, and the shouldering of financial risk by the private sector if therapies are to materialize as FDA-approved medicine.
The president is arguing in court that journalism he doesn't like is "election interference" that constitutes consumer fraud.
Jacob Sullum |
But Trump thinks he can achieve similar results by filing his own lawsuits.
The detention of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk illustrates the startling breadth of the authority the secretary of state is invoking.
Jacob Sullum |
However, these resolutions do not allow for these views to coexist and, as a result, force our community into opposing groups rather than uniting us to build from areas of agreement.
Remarks delivered at the Texas A&M Journal of Law & Civil Governance Banquet
Josh Blackman |
What kind of message does it send to the American people, that the elites care about judicial independence—but only if they agree with the result?
The ballot proposition would effectively require health insurers to cover all treatments at any price.
Christian Britschgi |
Eisner's proposal states that no insurer may "delay, deny, or modify any medical procedure or medication" recommended by a treating physician—or even demand reduced payment for such treatments—if doing so could result in disability, death, permanent disfigurement, or the loss or reduction of "any bodily function."
