Now that the Supreme Court has issued its final opinion of the term, we can see which justices wrote the most, and which wrote the least. Majority opinion assignments were fairly uniform: All of the justices had six or seven opinions for the Court, save for the most junior justice, Justice Jackson, who had five. […]
When President Donald Trump announced the “Liberation Day” tariffs on most imports in early April, his trade advisors promised it was the prelude to new, better trade deals with dozens of other countries. “We’re going to run 90 deals in 90 days,” Peter Navarro, the White House’s top trade advisor, told Fox Business on April […]
From Justice Jackson’s concurrence today in FCC v. Consumers’ Research: Respondents in this case have challenged the Federal Communications Commission’s universal-service program under both the traditional nondelegation doctrine and the private nondelegation doctrine. The Court properly rejects both challenges today, and I join the Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is […]
Justice Barrett’s opinion for the Court in Trump v. CASA responds forcefully to Justice Jackson’s solo dissent, in what is likely the most pointed language we have seen from Justice Barrett since she joined the Court. Here is the relevant portion of her opinion. The principal dissent focuses on conventional legal terrain, like the Judiciary […]
F1 is not the best movie I have seen this year. It is formulaic, predictable, frequently absurd, and more than a little bit shameless. But while it is not the best, it is the most roaringly entertaining, a nearly perfect summer movie fueled by real movie star charisma, heart-stopping racing footage, and more than a […]
in a major decision this morning, the Supreme Court has put the kibosh on the growing practice of issuing universal injunctions. In a 6-3 decision by Justice Amy Coney Barrett (the former civil procedure professor, natch), the Court grants the Trump Administration’s request to narrow the injunction in Trump v. CASA (the Birthright Citizenship case). […]
The Trump administration is planning to make hundreds of thousands of migrants immediately deportable by dismissing their asylum claims, CNN reported on Wednesday. The move would likely boost already historically high immigration-related arrests to meet the Trump administration’s quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. According to two sources familiar with the matter, the administration […]
Is Eric Adams actually a good orator? “This is a city not of socialism,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a speech yesterday, referring to his challenger Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the Democratic primary. “I’ve been to socialist countries. This is a city where you can come as a dishwasher and you […]
From yesterday’s decision by Judge Colleen Lawless (C.D. Ill.) in Doe v. Bd. of Trustees of Univ. of Illinois: In his complaint, Plaintiff seeks relief under Title IX and other theories following his suspension from the Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign following the University’s determination that he was […]
On October 8, 2023, the day after Hamas launched a barbaric attack on southern Israel that murdered more Jews than had been killed in a single day since the Holocaust, New York State Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani (D–Queens) took stock of the situation and zeroed in on what he saw as the central issue. “The […]