Federal Courts
The Trump administration and federal courts remain in a standoff over Abrego Garcia case
Movement in Abrego Garcia case: Yesterday, a panel of judges with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the administration's attempts to stay a court order that would have released Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El…
Federal appeals court rejects Trump administration’s attempt to block return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Warning that the executive branch's claims should shock "the intuitive sense of liberty" of Americans, a panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit today unanimously rejected the Trump…
Are Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs illegal?
In the wake of what President Donald Trump called "Liberation Day," Victor Owen Schwartz has been scrambling. As the owner of VOS Selections, a New York-based importer and distributor of wines and spirits, Schwartz…
An executive power case that Trump may win
According to the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the presidentially appointed members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) "may be removed by the President, upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or…
Supreme Court lets ATF regulate (some) DIY firearms kits
When is a paperweight a firearm? When the U.S. Supreme Court overrules sensible lower court decisions so the federal government can regulate inert objects as if they were capable of firing bullets. That's the result of…
ICE denies ‘Reason’ access to immigration court in Miami detention center
Immigration courts are supposed to be open to the public, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) refused to allow a Reason reporter to enter a federal detention center in Miami where hearings take place. And afterward…
Federal court ‘vacates in its entirety’ the FDA’s costly, onerous lab test rule
A federal district court has struck a blow for medical innovation and patient empowerment by overruling the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) misbegotten effort to regulate laboratory-developed (LDTs) and in vitro…
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