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USAID Ruling May Be Beginning of the End for Musk

USAID Ruling May Be Beginning of the End for Musk
20.03.2025 4

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Supreme Court’s USAID Ruling Sends an Important Message

06.03.2025 3

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Trump’s Justice Department Crisis Was an Unforced Error

18.02.2025 10

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JD Vance Is Playing a Dangerous Legal Game

The federal district courts have been standing up to Donald Trump’s illegal executive actions, blocking or pausing multiple orders from the denial...

11.02.2025 6

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Attorney General’s DEI Memo Isn’t What it Seems

07.02.2025 10

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Trump Is Testing Our Constitutional System. It’s Doing Fine.

04.02.2025 4

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Trump’s OMB Order Is Vague, Confusing and Illegal

29.01.2025 4

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Trump’s Firings Are Baiting the Supreme Court

28.01.2025 3

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Texas Porn Law Has a First Amendment Problem

Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court held 5-4 that the government couldn’t block minors from accessing pornography by requiring websites to verify...

15.01.2025 5

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Yes, Trump Could Declare an Economic Emergency for Tariffs

President-elect Donald Trump reportedly is considering declaring a national economic emergency to give him legal cover to impose tariffs. Wait, you...

11.01.2025 7

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Musk and His Critics are Both Wrong About Free Speech on X

Elon Musk is in a free-speech fight over his decision to demonetize the content of some far-right MAGA critics who disagreed with his immigration...

07.01.2025 5

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ABC's Decision to Settle Trump's Defamation Suit Makes Sense

Donald Trump loves to sue people for defamation to scare them out of making negative statements about him. In a settlement made public Saturday,...

19.12.2024 9

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Noah Feldman

Why the Naval Academy Gets to Keep Affirmative Action

In 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in private and public university admissions. Now a federal district court has upheld...

10.12.2024 10

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The Supreme Court Won’t Save Musk’s DOGE Plans

The plans for the Department of Government Efficiency laid out by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are so riddled with legal problems that a law...

03.12.2024 4

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Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is Understandable — But Wrong

No government action implicates raw emotion more than a president pardoning a family member. Seen from a human perspective, Joe Biden’s decision to...

03.12.2024 10

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Trump’s Recess Appointment Gambit Is Unconstitutional

Donald Trump has been the president-elect for only two weeks, but he is already pushing to see how much deference he can command from the other...

20.11.2024 4

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No, the Supreme Court Wouldn't Tip the Election for Trump

Since Bush v. Gore, a specter has loomed over our presidential elections: the possibility that a close election could be decided by the Supreme...

05.11.2024 3

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Trump’s CBS Lawsuit Is a Frivolous Election Stunt

Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS is utterly meritless. On one level, it’s a last-ditch political stunt from a man who has already been involved...

02.11.2024 10

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A Trump Win Could Actually Be Terrible for Israel

Both Donald Trump and the pro-Palestinian Democratic left would like to make support for Israel into a partisan issue. If either is successful, the...

31.10.2024 5

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The Problem With Banning Legacy Admissions

Last week, California prohibited its private colleges from using an applicant’s legacy status — that is, whether other family members attended the...

09.10.2024 3

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Noah Feldman

The Supreme Court Ghost Gun Arguments Were Cringeworthy

Should so-called ghost guns — assembled at home from kits in as little as 20 minutes — be counted as guns for purposes of federal law? If you have...

08.10.2024 4

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Putting Bibles In Oklahoma Schools Will Never Work

Oklahoma’s new law mandating Bible instruction in public schools violates the US Constitution and courts should strike it down. In the meantime,...

21.09.2024 2

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Telegram CEO’s Arrest Smacks of Empty Posturing

The arrest in France of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has brought into sharp focus one of the major conflicts of our age. On one hand, we...

11.09.2024 1

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Chicago Gun Ruling Is Yet Another Absurd Decision

Illinois can’t ban the concealed carry of licensed handguns on Chicago’s famous L — short for “elevated trains” — according to a new ruling by a...

05.09.2024 3

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New Trump Charges Expose the Supreme Court’s Failings

Jack Smith is calling the Supreme Court’s bluff. In the wake of the court’s controversial decision earlier this summer granting Donald Trump...

28.08.2024 2

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University Rules on Campus Protests Are Clear as Mud

As the fall semester dawns — or looms, depending on your perspective — college deans are preparing to deal with more campus protests against the...

26.08.2024 9

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Judge in Elon Musk Lawsuits Is Still Conflicted

Elon Musk’s lawyers have filed two lawsuits on behalf of X (formerly Twitter) in a federal district court in Texas. As of 2023, the judge in that...

14.08.2024 2

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AR-15s Are Weapons of War. A Federal Judge Just Confirmed It.

In a major development in the struggle to control mass shootings, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has upheld Maryland’s assault...

12.08.2024 20

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Voting Rights Are Dying by a Thousand Cuts

If you want to understand what’s happened to voting rights in the US over the past decade, just take a look at the recent ruling by the US Court of...

08.08.2024 3

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Yes, New Jersey Can Ban the AR-15. Here’s Why

Does a state have the power to ban the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle owned by millions of Americans, favored by mass shooters, and recently used in the...

04.08.2024 2

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Noah Feldman

Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Plan Is Doomed to Fail

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced his Supreme Court reform package in 1937, he had just won reelection with more than 60% of the...

29.07.2024 2

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Why Yale Law Is So Good at Producing Reactionaries Like JD Vance

JD Vance’s Yale Law School pedigree came up at least a dozen times at the Republican National Convention. His degree from the institution gives the...

22.07.2024 7

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Trump Judge Followed Radical Supreme Court’s Playbook

You don’t need a legal expert to tell you that Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision striking down the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to...

17.07.2024 3

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