FEDERAL AUTHORITY VIOLENTLY CHALLENGED IN LOS ANGELES—WHEN POLITICS AND THE LAW COLLIDE INTRODUCTION This weekend saw the truth of what propelled Trump to victory. The Mexican flag flown by violent protestors (mingled with “peaceful ones”) who attacked and injured state and federal law enforcement officers while displaying the American flag upside down is a…
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE—A PRIMER INTRODUCTION The controversy over President Biden’s actual ability to govern, in fact, and his clear lack of mental acuity and physical decline has ripened into what will become a procedural and substantive battle between Congressional oversight functions and the deliberative and communicative processes of the Executive during the pendency of his…
View of names etched into the granite face of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. REMEMBER This weekend hundreds of thousands of bikers rode to Washington, DC, for the Rolling Thunder commemorative. Its purpose for years has been to bring awareness to the POWs and MIAs still…
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A QUICK TOUR OF THE WEEK’S LEGAL NEWS—AN ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION This week saw several issues thrust onto the legal landscape. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Alien Enemies Act deportations are on hold but for a procedural reason that has been misread by the lay media. Universal injunctions were considered in the…
AN OKLAHOMA CASE WILL DEFINE THE FUTURE OF PUBLICLY FUNDED RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS—UNPACKING LAST WEEK’S SUPREME COURT ARGUMENT INTRODUCTION Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case wherein the Oklahoma Charter School Board and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School challenged a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The school had entered…
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ARE JUDGES ABOVE THE LAW? OF COURSE NOT INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW On January 21st, 2025, Acting Deputy United States Attorney General Emil Bove issued an “all-hands” memorandum throwing down a gauntlet and reasserting the federal Executive Branch’s exclusive authority to enforce immigration law without interference from the political motivations of state and local actors…
THE SUPREME COURT EMERGENCY OR “SHADOW” DOCKET IS IN HIGH GEAR INTRODUCTION President Trump’s agenda to address the excesses of the Biden administration on crime, immigration, DEI, and “education” has led to an unprecedented slate of US District Court orders enjoining actions of the Executive that, in large part, are overbroad, arbitrary, and obviously…
TARIFFS AND THE EMERGENCY POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT—AN UNLIKELY CHALLENGE EMERGES INTRODUCTION On Friday, April 4th, in the Northern District of Florida, attorneys of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a challenge to President Trump’s Executive Orders imposing across-the-board tariffs on our three largest trading partners—China, Mexico, and Canada. An examination of the…