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Ilya Somin

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Assessing the Extent of Political Violence in America

Assessing the Extent of Political Violence in America
12.09.2025 20

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Fourth Circuit Rules Performing Forced Labor as a Cook for a Terrorist Organization Does Not Count as "Material Support" for Terrorism that Precludes a Migrant From Getting Asylum

Fourth Circuit Rules Performing Forced Labor as a Cook for a Terrorist Organization Does Not Count as
11.09.2025 3

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Supreme Court Will Hear Our Case Challenging Trump's Tariffs - and Two Other Related Cases

Supreme Court Will Hear Our Case Challenging Trump's Tariffs - and Two Other Related Cases
10.09.2025 10

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Supreme Court Issues Dubious "Shadow Docket" Ruling Staying Injunction Against Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement

Supreme Court Issues Dubious
09.09.2025 3

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My New Boston Globe Article Making Case for Abolishing ICE and Giving the Money to State and Local Police

My New Boston Globe Article Making Case for Abolishing ICE and Giving the Money to State and Local Police
08.09.2025 2

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To end abuses, eliminate ICE and give the money to police

Abolishing ICE would not end all deportations. But it would make them much more dependent on state and local cooperation, which would be a particular...

08.09.2025 7

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Trump Forcibly Returns Russian Dissenters who Fled Putin

Trump Forcibly Returns Russian Dissenters who Fled Putin
08.09.2025 20

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Perils of the Pentagon's Plan to Use Military Lawyers to Adjudicate Immigration Cases

08.09.2025 3

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The Government's Cert Petition to the Supreme Court in Our Tariff Case - and Our Response

The Government's Cert Petition to the Supreme Court in Our Tariff Case - and Our Response
06.09.2025 10

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Trump's Unjust and Illegal Killing of 11 Venezuelans

Trump's Unjust and Illegal Killing of 11 Venezuelans
05.09.2025 4

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Fifth Circuit Rules Trump's Use of Alien Enemies Act is Illegal

Fifth Circuit Rules Trump's Use of Alien Enemies Act is Illegal
04.09.2025 10

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Help Workers by Breaking Down Barriers to Labor Mobility

01.09.2025 10

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New Jersey Town Drops Plan to Condemn a Church to Build a Park and Pickleball Courts

New Jersey Town Drops Plan to Condemn a Church to Build a Park and Pickleball Courts
01.09.2025 60

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Federal Circuit Rules Against Trump's Massive IEEPA Tariffs in Our Case Challenging Them

Federal Circuit Rules Against Trump's Massive IEEPA Tariffs in Our Case Challenging Them
30.08.2025 20

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New Pew Research Center Report on "How States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option"

New Pew Research Center Report on
30.08.2025 20

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My New The Hill Article: "Abolish ICE and Give the Money to Real Cops"

My New The Hill Article:
27.08.2025 3

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Trump's Unconstitutional Plan to Penalize States that Allow Cashless Bail

Trump's Unconstitutional Plan to Penalize States that Allow Cashless Bail
27.08.2025 3

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Trump's Acquisition of Stake in Intel Highlights Similiarities Between Right-Wing Nationalist and Left-Wing Socialist Economic Policies

23.08.2025 3

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Advice to Entering Law Students - 2025

19.08.2025 9

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My New Bulwark Article on Trump's Unconstitutional Export Tax

15.08.2025 7

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Why the Supreme Court is Highly Unlikely to Overturn Obergefell in the Kim Davis Case

13.08.2025 10

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My New Boston Globe Article on why Massachusetts Should Reject Rent Control, and Instead End Exclusionary Zoning

13.08.2025 4

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How to get Mass. to embrace YIMBYism

Letting property owners decide how to use their own land is a far greater level of local control than allowing local governments to impose...

13.08.2025 10

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Why Trump's Plan to Exclude Undocumented Migrants From Census Count Determining Apportionment of Congressional Seats is Unconstitutional

08.08.2025 10

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Federal Appeals Court Rules Takings Clause Creates Cause of Action Even Without Additional Federal or State Legislation

03.08.2025 10

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Update on Potential Condemnation of New Jersey Church to Build a Park and Pickleball Courts

03.08.2025 5

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Today's Federal Circuit Oral Argument in Our Tariff Case

01.08.2025 10

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My New Dispatch Article on Judicial Review of Emergency Powers

01.08.2025 10

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Federal Court Rejects Trump Lawsuit Challenging Illinois Sanctuary Policies

29.07.2025 5

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Trump's Trade Deals Won't End the Harm Caused by His Tariffs

28.07.2025 6

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My Jotwell Review of Michael Ramsey's "The Originalist Case Against the Insular Cases"

26.07.2025 4

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Appeals Court Rules Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order is Unconstitutional and Upholds Nationwide Injunction Against it

25.07.2025 3

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Society for the Rule of Law Webinar on "Tariffs and the Rule of Law"

24.07.2025 3

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Mark Graber on the History and Original Meaning of the Militia Act of 1903

24.07.2025 3

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Why I Distrust Social Trust Rationales for Immigration Restrictions

23.07.2025 3

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

23.07.2025 10

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Major Orange Juice Importer Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Planned Brazil Tariffs

23.07.2025 5

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Trump's Alien Enemies Act Deportees Sent Back to Venezuela in Shameful Exchange Hostage Deal

19.07.2025 9

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A Compelling Defense of Immigration Parole Programs

17.07.2025 4

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Defending the Court of International Trade Ruling Against Trump's Tariffs—A Reply to Estreicher and Babbitt [Updated]

16.07.2025 10

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Life as an Academic Defender of the Intuitively Obvious

15.07.2025 8

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Federal Court Rules Against Racial Profiling in "Roving" Immigration Enforcement Raids

15.07.2025 6

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Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Eviction Moratorium Takings Case

11.07.2025 5

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Federal Court Issues Class Action Injunction Against Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

11.07.2025 5

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Trump's Plan to Impose 50% Tariffs On Brazil Highlights Illegal and Harmful Nature of his Trade Policy

11.07.2025 20

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Pacific Legal Foundation Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of Euclid v. Ambler Realty

10.07.2025 3

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Courts Can Check, and Have Checked, Executives' Military Judgment

10.07.2025 3

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Overview of the Amicus Briefs Filed in Our Tariff Case

10.07.2025 10

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Federal Circuit Appellate Brief Filed in Our Tariff Case

09.07.2025 4

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Trump vs. the Declaration of Independence

04.07.2025 4

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