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Executive Power
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The Right Coast
Democrats’ Lawfare Threatens To Sideline Musk And DOGE
More than a dozen blue states which sued Elon Musk and DOGE on Thursday will push for an injunction against the Trump Administration later this morning. If granted, the temporary…
PrawfsBlawg
Is There a Non-Imbecilic Version of the President’s Latest Assertion?
Main Saturday, February 15, 2025Is There a Non-Imbecilic Version of the President's Latest Assertion?That assertion being, "He who saves his country does not violate any law." (I have cleaned up…
PrawfsBlawg
Nonsense–Not Acidental, But Deliberate
Main Friday, February 14, 2025Nonsense--Not Acidental, But DeliberateI suggested the other day that a lodestone of this personalist presidential administration is its historically familiar requirement of self-abasement: what better way…
Legal Theory Blog
Mazeitis Gubernatorial Requests for Advisory Opinions and New State Constitutional Rights
Jake Mazeitis has posted The Duty to Ask: Embracing the Gubernatorial Advisory Power (59 Ga. L. Rev. ___ (2025 forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Establishing new state constitutional…
The Right Coast
As Trump steamrolls Washington, courts flex their power to slow him down – POLITICO
President Donald Trump s shock and awe assertion of executive power has hit a wall in the courtroom at least for now. At least nine federal judges from Washington, D.C.,…
HR Law Watch
NLRB Board Member Challenges President Trump’s Executive Power
By Denise M. Keyser, Shannon D. Farmer, Ryan B. Ricketts
On September 6, 2023, Democratic member Gwynne Wilcox was appointed to the NLRB by former President Joe Biden. Her five-year term was scheduled to end in 2028. However, on January…
For Purpose Law Group Blog
Federal Funding “Pause”: Five-Alarm-Fire, Doused for Now
“This last week has been the longest year of my life.” – social media post, Monday, January 27, 2025 Well ahead of Inauguration Day, the incoming Administration announced its strategy:…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Executive Hiring Freeze and the IRS
As we all know, yesterday, President Trump issued a number of executive orders. Some go beyond what the president can do unilaterally, but some are within the president's authority.One that…
SHG Immigration Law Blog
POST-ELECTION PERSPECTIVES: HOW EMPLOYERS CAN PREPARE AND PLAN FOR THE TRUMP 2.0 ADMINISTRATION
By Matt Hirsch
The Presidential election of 2024 is behind us. Inauguration Day will bring a new Administration to Washington which has vowed to bring significant change “from Day One.” For Americans who voted…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Prez-Elect Trump reiterates pledge to grant Jan 6 pardons on "first day" in office
Prez-Elect Donald Trump conducted a new interview during which, according to this NBC News piece, he discussed his pardon plans for January 6 defendants. Here is the start of the…