The Supreme Court capped off a busy week with two major late-Friday-afternoon rulings on emergency applications—and a harmless but nevertheless alarming glitch prematurely releasing today's orders.| www.stevevladeck.com
The challenge to Trump's removal of the head of the Office of Special Counsel raises unique procedural and substantive issues likely to prevent it from serving as a referendum—in either direction.| www.stevevladeck.com
President Trump's Saturday night "memorandum" federalizing 2000 California National Guard troops is a tentative step toward abusing authorities for domestic use of the military, but a dangerous one.| www.stevevladeck.com
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
How one reads Thursday's ruling ordering the federal government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return depends upon how much (or how little) one expects *this* administration to turn square corners.| www.stevevladeck.com