ICE Agents in Minneapolis After Shooting. Photo by Chad Davis licensed under CC BY 4.0. AN ICE AGENT USES DEADLY FORCE IN MINNEAPOLIS—WHAT WILL LIKELY FOLLOW INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND It is a certainty that the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis is a tragedy. It is rendered more tragic in that she inserted herself…
MADURO IN CUSTODY—A CONSTITUTIONAL ACTION BY THE PRESIDENT INTRODUCTION Americans on Saturday woke up to the news that Venezuelan “President” Nicolas Maduro and his wife were captured in Caracas and taken to New York to face an indictment that issued from the Southern District of New York in March of 2020. It can be…
Ilya Shapiro speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. This article was originally published on Shapiro’s Gavel on Substack and is republished here with permission. I was recently invited to participate in a symposium on the future of the conservative legal movement hosted by The…
The 167th JAG section and the Alabama National Guard Trial Defense Service finishes a mock trial, Aug. 8, 2018, at the Calhoun County Courthouse, Anniston, Alabama. (Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Katherine Dowd.) MILITARY ORDERS 101—SIX MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TRY TO TAMPER WITH WELL-SETTLED MILITARY DISCIPLINE AND POLICY INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND I…
THE NUREMBERG TRIALS—THE VICTOR’S RETRIBUTION OR A REVOLUTION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW? INTRODUCTION AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND November 20th, 1945, saw opening statements in the Palace of Justice in the city of Nuremberg, Germany. An Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Robert Jackson, handpicked by President Truman in Executive Order 9547, laid out as…
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL TARIFFS AT THE SUPREME COURT ON NOVEMBER 5TH—THE ISSUES AND POSSIBLE OUTCOMES INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND I have routinely in this Blog opined that the President has sought to utilize his Article II vested powers to protect national security in a variety of ways. In the realm of immigration enforcement, he has…
The USS Gravely, an Aegis-class destroyer, deployed to the waters near Venezuela as part of counter-narcotics operations. THE USE OF DEADLY MILITARY FORCE TO DEFEND THE HOMELAND—LAWLESSNESS OR ARTICLE II AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS WHAT IS CLEARLY IRREGULAR WARFARE? INTRODUCTION My analysis herein may be considered an outlier—many argue that what is occurring in the…
SCOTUS OCTOBER TERM CONTINUING COVERAGE—IN NOVEMBER A PRESIDENT’S ARTICLE II AUTHORITY TO REMOVE SUPERIOR OFFICERS WILL BE VINDICATED—ANOTHER DISMANTLING OF THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT INTRODUCTION Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), decided by the Supreme Court during FDR’s New Deal Era, upheld Congress’ creation and protection of the Federal Trade…
“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 SUPREME COURT’S OCTOBER 2025 TERM BEGINS—SOME CASE HIGHLIGHTS INTRODUCTION The October Term of the United States Supreme Court features oral argument on cases that include the conflict between the objectives of Title IX and the social contagion of “gender identity,” which has seen a conflation of sex and “gender identity” in Circuit Courts…