Into the Weeds

Into the Weeds is a legal blog authored by Mike Imprevento, offering a deep dive into the latest in law-related news. Each Monday, Mike dissects and analyzes current legal issues, providing insightful commentary and thorough exploration of the topics that shape the legal landscape. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for law, Into the Weeds is the go-to resource for anyone looking to understand the intricacies of today’s legal matters.

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Mike Imprevento is one of the few radio hosts in the nation who is a practicing attorney as well as a sworn law enforcement officer. He brings insight from the street all the way to the Supreme Court where he regularly files briefs. We are proud to provide this platform to inform our listeners.

THE TRUMP FDA GIVES HOPE AND A PATHWAY TO PARENTS OF AUTISTIC AND ADHD CHILDREN—THE MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS STILL ENJOY BIG PHARMA MONEY—FOLLOW IT HERE

THE TRUMP FDA GIVES HOPE AND A PATHWAY TO PARENTS OF AUTISTIC AND ADHD CHILDREN—THE MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS STILL ENJOY BIG PHARMA MONEY—FOLLOW IT HERE   INTRODUCTION Recently, and ignoring the cries of “junk science,” President Trump and his HHS and FDA team of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marty Makary publicly announced that the…

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THE PRESIDENT AUTHORIZES A LETHAL STRIKE ON A VESSEL TRANSPORTING DRUGS—THE OPENING SHOT IN A NEW AND EVOLVING WAR ON TERROR

The USS Gravely, an Aegis-class destroyer, deployed to the waters near Venezuela as part of counter-narcotics operations. THE PRESIDENT AUTHORIZES A LETHAL STRIKE ON A VESSEL TRANSPORTING DRUGS—THE OPENING SHOT IN A NEW AND EVOLVING WAR ON TERROR   INTRODUCTION The current Administration is formulating a strategy to join issue with an increasingly dangerous influx…

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A LABOR DAY WEEKEND TARIFF RULING FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT—A SEPARATION OF POWERS SHOWDOWN GOES TO SCOTUS

A LABOR DAY WEEKEND TARIFF RULING FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT—A SEPARATION OF POWERS SHOWDOWN GOES TO SCOTUS   INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS On Friday, August 30th, a divided federal appeals court issued a ruling on the majority of the President’s tariffs imposed to address various declared emergencies from trade imbalance, fentanyl…

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THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION IS PARTIALLY RELIEVED FROM LETITIA JAMES’S CORRUPT CIVIL ACTION, BUT REAL JUSTICE AWAITS A FURTHER APPEAL

THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION IS PARTIALLY RELIEVED FROM LETITIA JAMES’S CORRUPT CIVIL ACTION, BUT REAL JUSTICE AWAITS A FURTHER APPEAL   INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS It appears that a few Justices of the Appellate Division, First Department, an intermediate appellate court within the New York legal structure, may have read my blog on these issues from September…

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EXPLODING THE STATUS QUO AND ENSURING LIFE AND LIBERTY IS NOT AUTOCRACY—IT IS A STRONG ARTICLE II PRESIDENT WIELDING CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

EXPLODING THE STATUS QUO AND ENSURING LIFE AND LIBERTY IS NOT AUTOCRACY—IT IS A STRONG ARTICLE II PRESIDENT WIELDING CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY   INTRODUCTION The status quo in the Nation’s Capital has seen a disproportionate share of violent crime, the actual impact and effect of which seems to contradict so-called crime statistics. A politically broad swath…

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JUDGE BOASBERG’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL QUEST TO HOLD TRUMP’S DOJ IN CONTEMPT COMES TO AN ABRUPT AND IGNOBLE END

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. JUDGE BOASBERG’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL QUEST TO HOLD TRUMP’S DOJ IN CONTEMPT COMES TO AN ABRUPT AND IGNOBLE END   INTRODUCTION Previous editions of this blog have examined the drama between the Executive and Judicial branches as…

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A CALIFORNIA FEDERAL COURT ENJOINS ICE—JUSTICE JACKSON WOULD APPROVE BECAUSE FEELINGS ARE ACTUALLY LAW

A CALIFORNIA FEDERAL COURT ENJOINS ICE—JUSTICE JACKSON WOULD APPROVE BECAUSE FEELINGS ARE ACTUALLY LAW   INTRODUCTION On July 11th, 2025, US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a recent Biden appointee, entered an extraordinarily broad and likely unlawful Ex Parte Restraining Order essentially telling federal immigration authorities that they cannot enforce immigration law in the Central…

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SCOTUS’S 27 JUNE OPINIONS—NOTHING LESS THAN COMMON SENSE JURISPRUDENCE

SCOTUS’S 27 JUNE OPINIONS—NOTHING LESS THAN COMMON SENSE JURISPRUDENCE   INTRODUCTION The left’s handwringing over the three decisions that I will discuss herein continues to establish its untethering from mainstream moral and legal thought. The bottom-line takeaways from these decisions clearly resonate with most Americans, who do not need to be Constitutional scholars or lawyers…

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FEDERAL AUTHORITY VIOLENTLY CHALLENGED IN LOS ANGELES—WHEN POLITICS AND THE LAW COLLIDE

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…

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EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE—A PRIMER

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…

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REMEMBER

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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AN OKLAHOMA CASE WILL DEFINE THE FUTURE OF PUBLICLY FUNDED RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS—UNPACKING LAST WEEK’S SUPREME COURT ARGUMENT

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

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…

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TARIFFS AND THE EMERGENCY POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT—AN UNLIKELY CHALLENGE EMERGES

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…

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THE TdA REMOVALS DRAMA AND JUDGE BOASBERG

THE TdA REMOVALS DRAMA AND JUDGE BOASBERG—WHO GETS TO DECLARE A “PREDATORY INCURSION,” AND WHO GETS TO PROTECT OUR NATIONAL INTERESTS?   INTRODUCTION It appears that the opposition to the President’s Proclamation based on and in reliance upon the Alien Enemies Act overlooks, in convenient fashion, key issues necessary to a real analysis of this…

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THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FINALLY EMBRACES THE REALITY OF EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS—IT IS ABOUT TIME

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FINALLY EMBRACES THE REALITY OF EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS—IT IS ABOUT TIME   INTRODUCTION Last week, and apparently as the result of President Trump’s Executive Order “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (which bans DEI from not only the federal government but from any entity, private or not, receiving…

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THE EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT—PART TWO—THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE

George Washington THE EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT—PART TWO—THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE   INTRODUCTION The current Democrat chorus of “chaos” and the gnashing of teeth over the Administration’s goal of fiscal responsibility is setting the stage for a historic review of the structure of the Constitution and a restoration of the original constitutional design. In this…

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DEI IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND HAS INFLUENCED FEDERAL HIRING DECISIONS, INCLUDING AT THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, FOR YEARS

Air route traffic controllers at work at the Washington ARTCC DEI IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND HAS INFLUENCED FEDERAL HIRING DECISIONS, INCLUDING AT THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, FOR YEARS   INTRODUCTION AND BACKSTORY There is no question that when George Floyd died from the combined effects of years of drug abuse and the reckless negligence of a…

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BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP—WHEN THE NOBLE INTENT OF THE RECONSTRUCTION CONGRESS WENT IN AN UNINTENDED DIRECTION

The Statue of Liberty BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP—WHEN THE NOBLE INTENT OF THE RECONSTRUCTION CONGRESS WENT IN AN UNINTENDED DIRECTION   INTRODUCTION In furtherance of a campaign promise and to tackle the concerns of many constitutional scholars and some in the political class, President Trump signed an Executive Order on January 20th purporting to direct Homeland Security…

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PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP SHOULD NOT APPEAR AT JUDGE MERCHAN’S “PUBLIC INTEREST” SENTENCING

Manhattan Criminal Courts Building by Americasroof is licensed under CC-BY-3.0 PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP SHOULD NOT APPEAR AT JUDGE MERCHAN’S “PUBLIC INTEREST” SENTENCING ON JANUARY 10th   INTRODUCTION If you thought that Judge Engeron, who presided over Letitia James’s Stalinesque civil case against the Trump Organization, was a partisan party to pure politics, Judge Merchan is the…

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TERROR IN THE NEW YEAR

The Seal of the President of the United States from Wikipedia. TERROR IN THE NEW YEAR—TRUMP’S JOB ONE IS CLEAR   INTRODUCTION My plan was to write yet another take on 2024 as the year the rule of law and due process were sacrificed at the altar of political expediency. I woke up to the…

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THE BIDEN PARDONS

Portrait of Henry VIII in 1540, by Hans Holbein the Younger THE BIDEN PARDONS—HUNTER AND THE CROOKED JUDGE WILL BE FORGOTTEN WHEN WE SEE HIM MASS PARDON DEPORTABLE ALIENS—BUCKLE UP FOR THE RIDE   A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE PARDON POWER—The English Monarchy bled into the Republic It is widely understood that the Executive unilateralism…

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THE PEOPLE’S COURT

“I Voted” by Vox Efx is licensed under CC-BY-2.0 THE PEOPLE’S COURT USING THE ELECTORAL PROCESS RENDERED A VERDICT OF ACQUITTAL IN THE TRUMP LAWFARE CASES AND SENTENCED DEI TO DEATH   The German philosopher Immanuel Kant once said:   “Science is organized knowledge; Wisdom is organized life…”   The election of Donald Trump in…

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MEXICO IS COMING FOR YOUR GUNS

“John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Boston” by David Apri is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. MEXICO IS COMING FOR YOUR GUNS   AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS JUST THE DEMOCRATS Mexico routinely ranks among the top five countries in the world in the category of gun-related homicides. Of course, this is due to the…

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A TALE OF TWO CASES

A TALE OF TWO CASES   TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME INFECTS THE NEW YORK STATE JUDICIARY AND COLLIDES WITH THE EIGHTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS—CASE 1   On February 16, 2024, Judge Arthur F. Engoron of the New York Supreme Court, the trial-level court in the New York judicial system, issued his decision in People v. Trump.…

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THE ARBITRARY EXERCISE OF JUDICIAL POWER

From Wikipedia. Photograph of “The Minute Man,” a statue by Daniel Chester French erected in 1875 in Concord, Massachusetts. THE ARBITRARY EXERCISE OF JUDICIAL POWER: THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DESTROYS THE SECOND AMENDMENT ON A TUESDAY.   OVERVIEW & INTRODUCTION On Tuesday, August 6th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals was compelled, in…

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A GREAT WEEK FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT

Colt AR-15 Sporter Lightweight rifle. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. A GREAT WEEK FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN THE UNLIKELIEST OF PLACES THANKS TO THE CLARITY AND FORCE OF BRUEN AND HELLER   OVERVIEW & INTRODUCTION In N.Y. State Rifle and Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S.…

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