These headwinds will persist for the next decade or two. The stock market is rallying hard after a brutal sell-off–not an uncommon occurrence. As we savor our winnings in the ship’s first-class casino, it’s not a bad idea to step out onto the deck and gauge the weather. There are headwinds. Not zephyrs, not gusts, just steady, […]
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To bar Marine Le Pen from running for the French presidency, a lower court convicted her of “misappropriation of public funds,” not the other way around. It wasn’t the offense she is accused of that led to her being stripped of her right to ineligibility, but it was invented to justify the sentence.Strangely, no one […]
President Trump issued a flurry of additional executive orders and presidential memoranda this week, many of which concerned regulatory policy. One EO in particular, “Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads,” symbolizes much of what we are seeing from the early stages of Trump’s second term. The EO sends a message, but might not quite do […]
Supreme Court rules on deportation: The Court, in an unsigned order, told the Trump administration that it must “facilitate and effectuate the return” of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from CECOT, the Salvadoran prison he is being held in. “The United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El […]
Some short excerpts from yesterday’s long decision by Judge John Woodcock (D. Me.) in Doe v. Smith: On November 14, 2023, John Doe, a pseudonym for the father of a minor daughter, filed a lawsuit against Sara Smith, a pseudonym for the mother of the same minor, seeking an injunction and other relief against Ms. […]
Ever since I founded The Future of Freedom Foundation, I have never lost hope of achieving a genuinely free society in my lifetime. By “genuine” I do not mean reforming and improving the the welfare-warfare state, which has come to be defined as “freedom” within conservative and right-wing libertarian circles. By “genuine” I mean the […]
Yesterday’s piece had warned about the curious drop in Treasurys and rise of interest rates. It was a dire sign that the global economy and markets far beyond Wall Street were going bad. The Trump administration recognized the danger and, just fifteen minutes after I had published my post, pulled back (archived): The economic turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in […]
I am pleased to announce that the South Texas Law Review has published the sixth installment in the Tillman-Blackman series on the offices and officers of the Constitution. Here is the abstract of Offices and Officers of the Constitution Part VI: The Ineligibility Clause. This Article is the sixth installment of a planned ten-part series […]
From Monday’s Justice Department press release: A North Texas man who threatened to shoot and kill ICE agents was arrested and charged in federal court …. Robert Wilson King, 35, was charged on April 3, 2025, via criminal complaint with transmitting an interstate threat…. According to the complaint, on March 29, 2025, King allegedly posted […]