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SUPREME COURT OCTOBER 2025 TERM—CONTINUING COVERAGE—LOUISIANA CHALLENGES RACE-BASED REDISTRICTING AND SHOULD WIN

“Panorama of United States Supreme Court Building at Dusk” by Joe Ravi is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 SUPREME COURT OCTOBER 2025 TERM—CONTINUING COVERAGE—LOUISIANA CHALLENGES RACE-BASED REDISTRICTING AND SHOULD WIN   INTRODUCTION On October 15th, 2025, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on yet another challenge to the requirements of the Voting Rights Act, which led…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…