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President Trump is once again threatening to cut federal funding for “sanctuary jurisdictions” that fail to cooperate with his Administration’s forceful immigration policies. The...
I. An Executive Order at Odds with Doctrinal Evolution In December, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to challenge...
Despite the pervasiveness of gun violence in the United States, legal constraints have hindered the ability of state governments to address it. Direct state...
A push for stronger executive control over spending — what two co-authors and I have called “appropriations presidentialism” — has emerged as a central...
“The text of the Appointments Clause ‘very clearly divides all its officers into two classes’: principal officers and inferior officers.” The Supreme Court, however,...
Leading originalist Professor Michael McConnell has written a thoughtful dissection of the Supreme Court’s pivotal decision last term in Trump v. Anderson, which...
I went to law school with academic aspirations, thinking that I might pursue law and economics. But Arthur Leff had other ideas. In Unconscionability...
The Trump Administration is enforcing an old, harmful wartime law purporting to require noncitizens to register with the federal government. This provision primarily targets...
