Trump fired Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya in March. Yesterday he gave up his claim to the job, but he's still challenging the White House's right to dismiss him.
Trump v. Hawaii may block a challenge based on unconstitutional discrimination. But it does not preclude a nondelegation case. Other recent developments may actually bolster that approach.
The case against Michelino Sunseri exemplifies the injustice caused by the proliferation of regulatory crimes—the target of a recent presidential order.
A leading conservative legal scholar explains why striking down Trump's IEEPA tariffs is vital to protecting the separation of powers.
The president treats legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat.
that treats the Library of Congress as an Executive Branch department as to Presidential removal of the Librarian.
Both are wins for free trade, but only one vindicates the separation of powers.
No. One of the judges in Wednesday's unanimous ruling was a Trump appointee, and the ruling rested on important legal and constitutional principles.
The president's crusade against attorneys whose work offends him, which defies the First Amendment and undermines the right to counsel, has provoked several judicial rebukes.
Trump rightly decries the "absurd and unjust" consequences of proliferating regulatory crimes.
Elon Musk promised $2 trillion in cuts but delivered only a tiny portion of that total. We asked seven policy experts to explain what he got wrong.
A FOIA lawsuit that seeks executive branch control over the Judicial Conference of the United States and Administrative Office of the United States.
The president’s sweeping import levies have no basis in the statute he cites.
A new ACLU lawsuit argues that the government still is not giving alleged gang members the "notice" required by a Supreme Court order.
"Nor is it taking a new approach."
Bills introduced Tuesday in the House and Senate would terminate the emergency declaration Trump issued last week.
Plus: A listener asks why some American libertarians seem to unquestioningly accept everything Vladimir Putin says.
To justify the immediate deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, the president is invoking a rarely used statute that does not seem to apply in this context.
"Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision," Roberts noted after Trump said federal judges who impede his agenda should be fired.
The decision involved administration attempts to withhold spending on foreign aid contracts, but has much broader implications.
Threats to impeach federal judges who rule against the government are a naked attack on their constitutionally crucial function.
A smaller government with a more powerful set of unaccountable executive officials is unlikely to be much of a win for liberty.
There's little question that Trump is taking the concept of the imperial presidency to its apogee.
His position is grounded in concerns about the separation of powers that presidents of both major parties have raised for many years.
The federal leviathan can’t be dismantled by executive action alone. To truly cut spending and rein in the bureaucracy, the administration needs buy-in from the branch that built it.
Vice President J.D. Vance believes presidents can ignore the courts in some situations. Are we heading for a constitutional crisis?
This will, for the moment, avert what could have been a major legal battle over the spending power.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
We have too much rule by decree by whoever currently holds the office of president and a pen.
Despite some notable wins, the president-elect's overall track record shows he cannot count on a conservative Supreme Court to side with him.
Sen. Rand Paul's bill to require congressional consent for tariffs is getting new attention in the final weeks before Trump's return to power.
Brendan Carr’s plans for "reining in Big Tech" are a threat to limited government, free speech, free markets, and the rule of law.
The justices, including Trump's nominees, have shown they are willing to defy his will when they think the law requires it.
Another interesting aside in the Royal Canin oral argument.
The Supreme Court is considering whether a rule targeting "ghost guns" exceeds the agency's statutory authority.
Contrary to public desires, the presidency should be far less powerful.
In charging the former president with illegal election interference, Special Counsel Jack Smith emphasizes the defendant's personal motivation and private means.
The 2024 Democratic platform devotes five paragraphs to firearm restrictions but does not even allude to the Second Amendment.
His criticism of President Joe Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reform is hard to take seriously.
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