With every passing day, another federal judge issues a scathing order to contain Trump’s autocracy and Trump keeps alienating the Supreme Court.
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‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
Posted inPolitics
The Republican Plot to Turn Pennsylvania Into Hungary
Judicial retention elections are normally pretty sleepy, but the Pennsylvania Republican Party, led by right-wing megadonor Jeff Yass, who is also the richest person in the state, is conducting an all-out effort to get rid of three Democrats on the state Supreme Court.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Inflation Comes to Immigration
As new immigration fees take effect, aspiring Americans who meet all the legal requirements could be priced out.
Posted inTAP
Trump Appointment Maneuver Risks Thousands of Criminal Cases
Today on TAP: Alina Habba’s sneaky reappointment as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey violates the law, says a criminal defendant, who wants his case thrown out as a result.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Anti-Bureaucracy Measure Runs Into Bureaucracy
Judges and administrative procedures make it hard to make it easy to cancel subscriptions.
Posted inPolitics
The Trump Justice Department Barges Into North Carolina Elections
A Republican candidate failed to overturn a state supreme court election. But the federal government has picked up where that case left off.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s War on the Judiciary Escalates
Today on TAP: The FBI has arrested a sitting judge in Wisconsin.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The GOP Is Destroying Justice to Embolden Trump’s Lawlessness
Attacks on judges from Republican members of Congress represent the subjugation of two branches of government under the president.
Posted inLaw and Justice
John Roberts’s Dangerous Game
In ruling after ruling, the Supreme Court pretends to uphold lower-court constraints on Trump but provides a road map for Trump to defy the judges’ orders.