The Trump Administration’s threats to revoke broadcasters’ licenses and President Trump’s lawsuits against media companies implicate important, and contested, Supreme Court First Amendment doctrines. Should these actions affect how courts and scholars analyze these doctrines?
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The arrest comes less than a day after a federal judge ordered federal law enforcement to stop impeding reporters and protesters.
If the courts try to enforce legal limits on the president's military deployments, he can resort to an alarmingly broad statute that gives him more discretion.
Civil servants are normally temporarily furloughed during shutdowns. The White House insists the current funding lapse empowers them to permanently fire workers.
The case is the second in two weeks, with little legal merit, filed by a neophyte prosecutor against a Trump opponent
For the fiscal year that ended on September 30, the federal government spent more than $7 trillion and ran a $1.8 trillion deficit.
A new White House budget memo frames shutdown furlough pay withholdings as fiscal restraint, but the budgetary impact is minimal—the greater effect may be expanding executive control over the federal bureaucracy.
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Federal troops are also ill-suited to handle local policing issues.
Oscar Amaya has been held in federal immigration custody for over six months after receiving a final order of removal, raising serious constitutional concerns about how long the government can detain people.
The war in Gaza was already over in January. Trump let it reopen and expand. A ceasefire is good—but it should have happened much earlier.
From pretrial detention to the threat of foreign rendition, the Abrego Garcia case shows how political prosecutions and coercive plea deals have eroded the promise of a fair trial.
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If the Trump administration wants to use military power, it should seek authorization from Congress, says Sen. Rand Paul.
As Illinois resists the federal immigration blitz, the Trump administration ups the ante on authoritarian rhetoric.
With fewer immigrant workers available on American farms, there is a risk of "supply shock-induced food shortages," the Labor Department says.
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The federal government can't even pass a budget. What's it doing buying a mine?
Shadowy deals and unilateral powers created Florida's notorious immigration detention camp.
In a new Supreme Court term packed with big cases, these disputes stand out.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut concluded that the president's description of "War ravaged Portland" was "simply untethered to the facts."
This is the second lawsuit in a week challenging the Trump administration's National Guard deployments absent a qualifying emergency.
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From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.
Just as Biden’s preference for renewables distorted markets and harmed consumers, so too does Trump’s bias toward coal.
“I still believe in America. I do not feel betrayed. I feel hopeful because of how many Americans stood up for me when I was arrested.”
The president thinks he can transform murder into self-defense by executive fiat.
The Trump administration has already claimed the power to raise taxes without congressional approval. Now it is going to spend money that way too.
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Trump's deal with a lithium mine in Nevada follows similar "creative deals" with Intel and U.S. Steel.
Pfizer wins big in Trump’s new drug discount gimmick.
The president would be justified in wanting to rescind all state grants. Instead, he's apparently letting states that voted for him keep the cash.
When the state dictates both the questions science asks and the answers it offers, it converts knowledge into propaganda and health into a matter of politics.
Just as it was a scandal when the IRS under Obama allegedly targeted Tea Party groups.
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Which version of the chief justice will emerge in the Supreme Court’s newest term?
Judge William Young wrote a book-length order attacking “the problem this President has with the First Amendment.”
Refusing to fund the government is the primary way minority party lawmakers can check the excesses of the executive branch and the majority party.
The decision to close two federal watchdog agencies has drawn criticism from a pair of Republican senators.
Civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes recounts her role in Murthy v. Missouri, her opposition to pandemic mandates, and why she believes Trump poses an even greater threat to free speech than Biden.
“I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,” says Leo Garcia Venegas, the lead plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice challenging warrantless ICE raids on construction sites.
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Reason's Peter Suderman and Eric Boehm discuss the government shutdown live at 3 p.m. Eastern time today.
Federal officers policing Washington, D.C., on Trump's orders appear to be driving crime down, but the plan is neither constitutionally sound nor viable in the long term.
The legal rationales for prosecuting James Comey, Adam Schiff, and Letitia James suggest the president is determined to punish them one way or another.
The Department of Homeland Security will retain 95 percent of its employees if the government shuts down and remain funded in large part by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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