The board at the University of Virginia failed to protect the school’s president against an assault from the Trump administration. Is this any way to run Thomas Jefferson’s school?
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Trump’s Third-Country Deportations Explained
First, it was that megaprison in El Salvador, now Africa is becoming a dumping ground for illegal migrants who committed crimes. How the president and the Supreme Court are normalizing the inhumane.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Epstein and Trump: Why We’re Unlikely to See the Files
Judges will probably keep the Epstein files sealed, Bondi seems unlikely to release anything, and the Supreme Court’s version of blanket presidential immunity will thwart any criminal case against Trump.
Posted inEducation
How the Supreme Court Helped Trump Dismantle the Education Department
By allowing him to ignore the law and crush the Education Department, the conservative justices let King Trump do whatever he wants to duly enacted statutes.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Alito’s Same-Sex Wedding Panic Threatens LGBTQ Rights
His opinion for the Supreme Court Majority in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case involving parents opting out of a children’s book about a same-sex wedding, has big implications.
Posted inPodcast
Supreme Court or Supreme Enablers?
A lopsided spate of unsigned rulings in favor of the Trump Administration betrays the Court’s bias and its abdication of the rule of the law.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Supreme Court Fallout: The Birthright Citizenship Case and Autocracy
By taking this case, the Supreme Court supermajority is once more abrogating fundamental rights.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Dangerous Trans-Rights Decision from the Supreme Court
Upholding Tennessee’s law banning hormone therapies and other treatments for trans youth alone relied on legal gymnastics and revived a long-discredited opinion from the 1970s.
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It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure
The problem isn’t just the crisis of the administration defying the courts. It’s the failure of the legislative and judicial branches to check the president.
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Listen, MAGA: Presidents Rarely Defy the Courts
Trump and his MAGA allies may point to Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and others, but if he balks at judicial orders, he’ll be an outlier.
