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First Circuit Rules Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order is Unconstitutional

First Circuit Rules Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order is Unconstitutional
05.10.2025 20

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Lawsuit Challenges Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

Lawsuit Challenges Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
04.10.2025 2

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The Supreme Court Will Hear Another Home Equity Theft Takings Case

The Supreme Court Will Hear Another Home Equity Theft Takings Case
04.10.2025 2

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European Nations Again Consider Using Frozen Russian State Assets to Fund Ukraine's War Effort

European Nations Again Consider Using Frozen Russian State Assets to Fund Ukraine's War Effort
04.10.2025 20

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Fifth Circuit Will Rehear Alien Enemies Act Case En Banc

Fifth Circuit Will Rehear Alien Enemies Act Case En Banc
03.10.2025 3

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Caleb Nelson's Originalist Critique of Unitary Executive Theory

Caleb Nelson's Originalist Critique of Unitary Executive Theory
02.10.2025 4

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Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations of Non-Citizen Students and Academics Violate the First Amendment

Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations of Non-Citizen Students and Academics Violate the First Amendment
01.10.2025 3

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Two Prominent Left-Liberal Thinkers Reconsider Libertarianism

Two Prominent Left-Liberal Thinkers Reconsider Libertarianism
29.09.2025 30

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Federal Court Rules Trump Can't Deny Federal Disaster Relief Funds to Sanctuary States

Federal Court Rules Trump Can't Deny Federal Disaster Relief Funds to Sanctuary States
25.09.2025 30

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Courts are Checking Trump More Effectively than Many Think

23.09.2025 3

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Trump's Harmful and Illegal Plan to Gut H-1B Visas by Imposing $100,000 Fees

Trump's Harmful and Illegal Plan to Gut H-1B Visas by Imposing $100,000 Fees
22.09.2025 10

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Video of Education Law and Policy Panel on "Federal Efforts to Combat Antisemitism: Restoring Campus Civil Rights or Infringing Academic Freedom?"

Video of Education Law and Policy Panel on
19.09.2025 3

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Abolish the FCC

19.09.2025 20

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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

11.09.2025 3

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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

09.09.2025 5

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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

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

06.09.2025 10

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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

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

01.09.2025 60

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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"

30.08.2025 20

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

27.08.2025 3

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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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