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Saturday, May 31, 2025

“How the Supreme Court Made Legal Immigrants Vulnerable to Deportation; The court decisions are an abrupt turnaround for a population that entered the country legally and shared detailed information about their whereabouts with the government”: Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times has this news analysis.

Posted at 9:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Only ‘Judicial Coup’ in This Country Is by Trump Against Judges; The Trump administration is getting its butt kicked in court; That’s great; But an unprecedented assault on the judiciary is coming”: Michael Tomasky has this essay online at The New Republic.

Posted at 9:27 PM by Howard Bashman



“Obscure provision in House bill threatens enforcement of court rulings on Trump; The legislative provision echoes a memo Trump signed March 11 directing the Justice Department to request bonds in all cases where judges block his policies”: Bart Jansen of USA Today has this report.

Posted at 8:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“There’s one thing stopping Trump: laws. Clearly we need to get rid of them. Let me put this in simple terms, so all the whiny libs out there can understand: We have too many laws, and too many judges interpreting those laws in ways I and the Trump administration don’t like.” Columnist Rex Huppke has this essay online at USA Today.

Posted at 8:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order; A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador; Minutes later, it happened anyway; The government blamed ‘administrative errors’”: Mattathias Schwartz and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

Posted at 8:45 PM by Howard Bashman



“Nationwide Injunctions? Only if the Supreme Court Has Spoken. District judges shouldn’t be able to make policy in cases that require them to announce new law.” Law professor Jed Rubenfeld has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 8:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Inside the split between MAGA and the Federalist Society: Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society used to advise Trump on judges; Now the president and his most loyal allies are going after them.” Hailey Fuchs and Daniel Barnes of Politico have this report.

Posted at 4:12 PM by Howard Bashman



“Yes, There Will Be No Loper Bright ‘Revolution’; SCOTUS Is Taking the Decision’s Limits Seriously”: Adrian Vermeule has this post at “The New Digest” Substack site.

Posted at 4:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump’s deals with law firms are like deals ‘made with a gun to the head,’ lawyers say”: Carrie Johnson of NPR has this report.

Posted at 4:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Lawyers for Migrants Press Appeals Court to Stop Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act; It was an opening salvo in what is likely to be the decisive legal battle over the president’s attempts to employ the rarely used wartime law as a centerpiece of his aggressive deportation agenda”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

You can access the brief for appellants filed yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit via this link.

Posted at 3:56 PM by Howard Bashman