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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…
Meet Trump’s ‘Brilliant’ Missouri Judicial Pick
Former colleagues of one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees praise him as the “the most brilliant attorney” they’ve ever “had the opportunity to work with.” Trump nominated Joshua Divine to the U.S. District Court…
Biden, Obama Judges Made Up Bulk of Anti-Trump Policy Rulings
Of the lower court judges who have blocked President Donald Trump’s executive orders and other administration actions since he returned to office in January, Democrat appointees have outnumbered Republican appointees by about…
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,…
Two courts have ruled against Trump’s tariffs—but not for the same reasons
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) permanently enjoined President Donald Trump's tariff orders that invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). On Thursday, the U.S. District…
Trump’s Tariffs Are Down, But Are They Out?
Recently, two federal courts ruled against the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. While a three judge panel of the Court of International Trade assumed that the…
Congress must vote on Trump’s tariff policy
President Donald Trump's unilateral attempt at imposing tariffs has evolved into a quantum state. You probably already know that Trump has repeatedly threatened, imposed, paused, delayed, raised, lowered, and…
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…
Trump’s tariffs ensnared in legal battle playing out in federal courts
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…
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…
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