The Supreme Court, apparently reacting to arguments made to it by a law professor, on Wednesday showed the first signs that it may hesitate before allowing President Trump to use either the National Guard or regular military troops to help enforce federal immigration law across the nation. In a one-page order issued this evening, the… Read More

NOTE TO READERS: The notion that President Trump might seek a third term in the White House has arisen from time to time in recent months, and appears to be resurfacing.  His long-time political adviser, Steve Bannon, recently told a British news organization that there is a plan for a third term.  He did not… Read More

The Trump Administration, arguing that Chicago is in open rebellion, has asked the Supreme Court to give President Trump full permission to send hundreds of National Guard troops to the city and its suburbs.  Both the state’s governor and the city’s mayor insist there is no need for that, that their own police are keeping… Read More

The Supreme Court’s deep commitment to bolstering presidential power reached a new and crucial point this week.  Over three Justices’ dissents, it assigned itself the historic task of reconsidering – and probably overruling – one of its most important constitutional checks on the nation’s Chief Executive. In actions taken late Monday, none drawing much media… Read More

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide, on a fast schedule, the constitutional controversy over President Trump’s claim that he has almost unlimited power to impose charges on goods entering the U.S. from anywhere in the world. Two lower courts have denied the President that power, declaring that imposing tariffs on imports belongs to… Read More

The Supreme Court, continuing a string of orders temporarily freeing President Trump from lower-court orders blocking his use of broad new powers, on Monday gave his government permission to continue rounding up hundreds of individuals suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. By an apparent vote of 6-to-3, the Court set aside a Los Angeles… Read More

Both sides in the historic controversy over President Trump’s policy of imposing charges on goods coming into the U.S. from around the world have urged the Supreme Court to act with unusual speed to decide the dispute. By agreement, government lawyers and those for challengers to the tariffs asked the Court to agree within one… Read More

The Supreme Court apparently is going to have the last word on the legality of President Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs on imported goods, but getting there could put the Court between two legal theories that it applies these days. One theory – favorable to Trump – is the current Court majority’s generous support of presidential power… Read More

A power that President Trump fondly embraces and uses in sweeping and unprecedented ways – setting import charges on goods coming into the U.S. from nearly the whole world – does not exist, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a historic defeat for his policy. Only Congress has that power under the Constitution, the… Read More

A state court in New York, issuing 323 pages of a dizzying array of conflicting legal and factual findings plus a patched-together final compromise, ruled on Thursday that President Trump, his family and his business firm should not have to pay nearly a half-billion-dollars in penalty for years of rampant business fraud. The ruling, though,… Read More