The increasingly loud claim that district courts are abusing their powers by blocking Trump administration policies depends upon a series of indefensibly selective (and easily rebutted) arguments.| www.stevevladeck.com
The Trump administration's latest request for emergency relief from the Supreme Court hides the government's deeply problematic litigation behavior behind a plausible jurisdictional objection.| www.stevevladeck.com
The unprecedented (and unsustainable) flurry of emergency requests in Trump-related cases shows no signs of letting up. The harder question is whether the justices are willing to do anything about it.| www.stevevladeck.com
President Trump and his supporters are mounting increasingly noisy attacks on lower-court judges. But their claims combine shameless hypocrisy with shameful distortions of the facts.| www.stevevladeck.com