Separation of Powers
Invading Venezuela for ‘law enforcement’ is an open-ended license for war
Venezuela is well rid of Nicolás Maduro, a corrupt, oppressive, and illegitimate leader who presided over that country's continuing decline after succeeding Hugo Chávez in 2013. And judging from what happened after the…
3 areas where courts resisted Trump’s attempts to avoid judicial review in 2025
In December, CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss provoked internal and external criticism by postponing a 60 Minutes segment about President Donald Trump's deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members to Centro de…
Refusing To Let Trump Deploy the National Guard in Chicago, SCOTUS Adds a New Wrinkle To the Debate
The Supreme Court yesterday declined to let President Donald Trump deploy federalized National Guard members in the Chicago area to protect immigration agents and facilities from protests that have sometimes turned violent.…
The Supreme Court’s chance to restore the separation of powers
The recent high-profile cases of Trump v. Slaughter and Learning Resources v. Trump might not initially appear to share very much in common. Yes, they both involve President Donald Trump, but the former is about the…
Majority of Justices Seem Prepared to Hold that the President Can Control the Executive Branch
Who controls the executive branch of government? For more than two hours on Monday, the Supreme Court listened to U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer and Amit Agarwal, a lawyer for Protect Democracy and former counsel to the…
Trump tries to cut Congress out of U.S. attorney appointments
Alina Habba said she was the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey. President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi agreed. All three were wrong, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled this week. That…
Mike Johnson once backed a bill that would have given Congress a say in Trump’s tariffs
Asked earlier this month about the possibility that the Supreme Court could strike down President Donald Trump's tariffs on the grounds that they are an unconstitutional delegation of congressional authority, Speaker of…
Trump’s economic fallacies are legally relevant in his tariff case
In April, President Donald Trump announced stiff tariffs on goods from nearly every country on the planet, saying they were necessary to "deal with" a "national emergency" involving an "unusual and…
District Court Order to Federal Immigration Official “Infringes on the Separation of Powers”
From today's order in In re Noem (7th Cir.): After the district court issued a temporary restraining order affecting some aspects of immigration-law enforcement in the Chicago area, the judge on her own motion entered a…
Why a Trump-appointed judge ruled the Portland deployment was illegal
On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against President Donald Trump's deployment of federalized Oregon National Guard members in Portland. In response to a lawsuit by…
TRENDING
