Litigation
Federal judge lists 8 ways Trump violated the Constitution by punishing a law firm
After President Donald Trump began penalizing major law firms that had offended him in one way or another last February, nine of them chose to surrender rather than fight. They agreed to humiliating concessions that included…
Federal judge blocks Trump initiative targeting foreign student visas
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suddenly terminated about 4,700 records in the database of foreign students with F-1 visas authorizing them to attend American universities. That move, which sowed panic…
Federal judge says New Mexico cops reasonably killed an innocent man at the wrong house
Around 11:30 on a Wednesday night in April 2023, three police officers repeatedly knocked on the door of Robert Dotson's house at 5305 Valley View Avenue in Farmington, New Mexico. They were responding to a report of…
Supreme Court unanimously rejects narrow approach to deadly force by police
During a routine traffic stop near Houston in 2016, a police officer killed Ashtian Barnes by blindly firing two shots into his car after jumping onto the doorsill as Barnes began to drive away. Last year, the U.S. Court of…
A Strange Take on 127-Year-Old Precedent Birthright Citizenship
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding three preliminary injunctions against a January 20 executive order that purported to eliminate birthright citizenship except for children of U.S. citizens or…
Defending Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest, the government still cites nothing but an op-ed
When immigration agents grabbed Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk off the street near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25, it looked like her only crime was cowriting an anti-Israel op-ed that…
Trump’s tariffs usurp the legislature’s tax power
Watching the stock market fluctuate wildly in response to President Donald Trump's constantly changing tariff plans, you might wonder why the Framers would have given a single man so much authority over the U.S. economy.…
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