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Sunday, September 7, 2025

“Harvard’s Mixed Victory; A resounding win for the university in court still leaves the Trump Administration with plenty of ways to force schools into submission”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this essay online at The New Yorker.

Posted at 1:37 PM by Howard Bashman



“It Doesn’t Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War Is”: Columnist David French has this essay online at The New York Times.

Posted at 1:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week? From tariffs and immigration to the National Guard, federal judges are rejecting Trump’s ridiculous cover stories.” Susan B. Glasser has this essay online at The New Yorker.

And online at The New Republic, Timothy Noah has an essay titled “Trump Is Our True National Emergency; When the president claims everything is a national emergency, so that he can do whatever he wants, the courts need to regard that as the real emergency.”

Posted at 1:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Trump Has Ignited a Civil War Between the Federal Courts; The Supreme Court’s burgeoning conflict with the lower courts is rooted in whether the courts should show fealty to law and legal precedent or to an authoritarian president”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

Posted at 1:30 PM by Howard Bashman