The Trump administration's emergency applications in three birthright citizenship cases are a cynical effort to mitigate the effects of an inevitable loss on the merits. The justices shouldn't bite.| www.stevevladeck.com
The second Trump administration's most controversial policy initiatives are likely to reach the Court quickly. The question will then become what lessons (if any) the justices have learned since 2017.| www.stevevladeck.com
Each of the last two terms, the United States has been a party to at least half of the cases on the Supreme Court's merits docket. That's a big deal, and not just because it's *never* happened before.| www.stevevladeck.com
How the justices navigate the six pending emergency applications from the Trump administration will tell us a lot about how much (or how little) the Court will be a bulwark against the President.| www.stevevladeck.com
The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.| www.stevevladeck.com