Constitution
Overruling Trump’s tariffs should be an easy decision for SCOTUS
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Injustice System, a newsletter about law, politics, and history. Thanks for reading! Let's talk tariffs. Specifically, let's talk about why overruling President Donald Trump's…
Trump’s Federalist Society attack is a bad omen for originalism
President Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own MAGA image. Will he now do the same to the conservative legal movement? During his first term, Trump benefited immeasurably from his association with Leonard Leo,…
Immigrants are being denied legal access at detention centers
A group of civil rights and legal organizations say immigrant detainees being held at two federal detention centers are being denied their constitutional right to legal counsel. One of those detention centers is a Miami…
What J.D. Vance gets wrong about judicial deference to executive power
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…
British attacks on free speech prove the value of the First Amendment
Political activists occasionally propose a new constitutional convention, which would gather delegates from the states to craft amendments to the nation's founding document. It's a long and convoluted process, but…
It’s Disorder in the Courts With Rogue Judges’ Rulings
Decisions, reversals, stays, restraining orders, injunctions, freezes, thaws, and every other kind of ruling flies out of federal courtrooms these days, on everything from tariffs to environmental blocks. It’s every judge for…
Asylum case deals Trump yet another loss on due process
The Trump administration this week formally agreed to comply with a ruling that ordered it to facilitate the return of a migrant who was unlawfully deported—in what was another loss for the government as it attempts to…
Mark Meador is open to prosecuting people who disagree with him
The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Mark Meador recently insinuated that his agency may investigate nonprofits and academic institutions that object to antitrust enforcement actions without disclosing their donors for…
Supreme Court Pauses Attempt to Keep Legislator From Voting
Most injunction stories seem to favor the Left—but here’s one they may not like as much. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to grant an injunction requiring the clerk of the Maine House of Representatives to count votes…
What Kristi Noem Gets Wrong About Habeas Corpus
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a congressional hearing on Tuesday had a contentious exchange about habeas corpus, the constitutional right that allows people to challenge their imprisonment in court. Sen. Maggie…
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