For weeks, President Donald Trump and other federal officials have made it clear that they want to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States, because they do not like what he had to say as an organizer of anti-Israel protests at Columbia University. Last week, the government began citing an additional […]
(Coauthored with John F. Duffy) As discussed in a prior post, the core argument in our recently published article “Major Technological Questions” is that courts and agencies should hesitate to interpret ambiguous pre-existing legal authority as resolving legal questions newly raised by major technological developments. As we noted in that earlier post, we draw an […]
Susette Kelo’s famous “little pink house,” which became a nationally known symbol of the case that bears her name. (Institute for Justice.)  Today, the Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari in Bowers v. Oneida County Industrial Development Agency, a case in which the Institute for Justice sought to persuade the Supreme Court to overrule […]
A federal judge has blocked the Texas A&M University System from banning drag shows, clearing the way for an upcoming student-run drag performance that administrators had canceled on the grounds that they demeaned women and violated state and federal policies opposing “gender ideology.” Senior U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas Lee Rosenthal […]
Adam Liptak reports that the law the Trump Administration is citing to deport Mahmoud Khalil was declared unconstitutional by President Trump’s sister when she was a trial court judge. Liptak’s story begins: The 1952 law under which the Trump administration seeks to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident who helped organize protests at Columbia […]
A short excerpt from today’s long decision by Judge Lee Rosenthal (S.D. Tex.) in Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council v. Mahomes: The Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council (“QEC”), a student organization at A&M’s College Station flagship campus has, for each of the last five years, sponsored a drag show cleverly named “Draggieland” on campus. It […]
I agree with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that cellphones probably don’t belong in classrooms. They are likely to distract from learning, to impede socialization, or both. But Kennedy has a different concern. He recently told Fox & Friends that he’s worried the phones will case “neurological damage to kids” and “even […]
If you thought Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ clash with Elon Musk was an isolated incident, you were mistaken. Moraes has now declared a new enemy—Chris Pavlovski, CEO of the video platform Rumble. On Friday, February 20, history repeated itself when Moraes ordered the suspension of yet another social media platform in […]
Does originalism need a moral defense? In his newly published Vaughan Lecture, Joel Alicea argues that it does: Justifying a constitutional methodology requires arguing that judges ought to employ that methodology, which requires making a moral argument that the methodology is better than its competitors. And we can only know the comparative moral soundness of […]
In a recent closed-door meeting with the CEOs of several major food companies—including PepsiCo, General Mills, Smucker’s, Kraft Heinz, and Kellogg’s—Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. implored the industry to eliminate artificial food dyes from their products. The secretary “expressed the strong desire and urgent priority of the administration to remove” artificial […]
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