Vice President J.D. Vance thinks the courts have no business questioning President Donald Trump’s use of a wartime law to summarily deport alleged criminal aliens during peacetime. “I think that the courts need to be somewhat deferential,” Vance told New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. “In fact, I think the design is that they should […]
The Atlantic has just published my new article about  our win in the tariff case before the US Court of International Trade. It is entitled “A Victory for the Separation of Powers.” Here is an excerpt: Wednesday’s unanimous ruling against President Donald Trump’s expansive “Liberation Day” tariffs by the United States Court of International Trade […]
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that foreign citizens who engage in online censorship of Americans’ speech will be barred from obtaining visas to travel to the U.S. The announcement is the latest in a series of muddled moves on free speech, with the Trump administration gleefully attempting to punish individuals for their […]
Six months ago, U.S.-Syrian enmity seemed locked in for good. Congress was set to renew the Caesar Civilian Protection Act, a set of economic sanctions designed to weaken the government of Bashar al-Assad by preventing postwar reconstruction. And it was only the latest in a set of economic sanctions imposed in 1979, when the U.S. […]
Since  our win in the tariff case before the US Court of International Trade a couple days ago, there have been several informative media articles about the history of the case, and how the Liberty Justice Center and I decided to undertake it, and found our clients. In this post, I compile links to what […]
Reverse, reverse: Yesterday, I reported that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade had issued a ruling that would put a pause on President Donald Trump’s tariffs announced on “Liberation Day,” as well as those levied on Canada, Mexico, and China the month prior. “The decision would have forced the Trump administration […]
Over the last two days, since our victory in the tariff case before the US Court of International Trade, I have done more media interviews than in any other comparable period in my entire life. That’s not because I’ve become a celebrity or a great media personality (I’m not), but because of the significance of […]
A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School. This episode features a conversation with co-blogger Eugene Volokh, the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He blogged about […]
From In re Complaint of John Doe (8th Cir. Jud. Council), by Chief Judge Steven Colloton: This is a judicial complaint against a district judge who has participated in a hiring boycott against graduates of Columbia University in an effort to influence the university’s administration. The subject judge was one of thirteen federal judges who […]
[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article “Cheap Speech and What It Will Do,” written for a symposium called “Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment.) Thirty years later, I thought I’d serialize the piece here, to see what I may have gotten right—and what I got wrong.] Opinion Articles: With opinion […]