Aerial view of the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. THE ALIEN ENEMIES ACT—ALMOST AS OLD AS THE CONSTITUTION AND A STILL VIABLE LAW FOR A STRONG EXECUTIVE TO INVOKE TO PROTECT THE HOMELAND INTRODUCTION On Friday the President issued a Proclamation that is…
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…
THE APPOINTMENTS CLAUSE AND DOGE—A BRIEF OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION Last week U.S. District Judge Chutkan, who seems to be the Trump and January 6th “duty judge” in the DC District Court, denied a temporary restraining order to fourteen (14) state Attorneys General who sought to enjoin the actions of the Department of Governmental…
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…
ICE Arrest THE EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT—PART ONE—THE IMMIGRATION WARS INTRODUCTION In Part One of this two-part “Into the Weeds” series, the fundamentals of the role of the Executive Branch and its vast and nearly exclusive authority and power over the subject of immigration and the status of aliens will be examined. An…
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…
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…
Dr. Martin Luther King at a press conference. WOULD MARTIN LUTHER KING HAVE EMBRACED “EQUITY,” OR WOULD HE HAVE SEEN IT AS INJURIOUS TO HIS COLOR-BLIND DREAM OF TRUE EQUALITY? INTRODUCTION When on April 4th, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated, the full progress and effects of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had little…
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…
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…