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In his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump pledged to crack down on illegal immigration: “All illegal entry will immediately…

Some excerpts from Judge Cecilia Altonaga (S.D. Fla.) long opinion today in Pete v. Cooper (for more on the earlier…

From today’s decision by Chief Judge Andrew Gordon (D. Nev.) in Patel v. Stewartson (for more on the $100K compensatory…

Whenever a new petition is granted, I always check the counsel of record. I keep a running tally of how…

The recent leak of internal Supreme Court memoranda to the New York Times, discussed earlier by Jonathan Adler and Josh…

On March 2, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Mirabelli v. Bonta. This emergency docket case ruled against California’s policy of secretly…

Steve Sachs writes that Adam Liptak, a member of the New York Bar, may have transgressed certain rules of professional…

After first signaling that satire might trigger administrative scrutiny in the wake of an April Fools’ controversy, the University of…

Today the Supreme Court issued an order in Smith v. Scott, a qualified immunity case. The petition for a writ of…

I previously blogged about a cert petition I helped to prepare regarding the scope of section 230 immunity. Last week,…

5 years ago May 2021 “Without Roe [v. Wade], political battles over abortion will continue, but they will mainly involve state-by-state legislative…

That’s the opening line from yesterday’s Oregon v. Kennedy, by Judge Mustafa Kasubhai (D. Or.) (the only federal judge I’ve…