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Can Elite Lawyers Be Persuaded to ‘Wake Up and Stand Up’?

admin10 May 2025

When the law firm Paul Weiss cut a deal with the Trump administration, a new kind of activist emerged.

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In Texas Borderland, Trump’s Immigration Push Suffers Its Worst Legal Defeat Yet

admin2 May 2025

Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is a Trump nominee with conservative credentials. But he found White House claims about a Venezuelan gang “invasion” went too far.

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Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal With Trump From a Case

admin2 May 2025

The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

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Trump’s Maximalist Assertion of Presidential Power Tests the Rule of Law

admin1 May 2025

Nearly every president has pushed the bounds of executive power to try to achieve something specific. And a handful of presidents who took office during a true national crisis, like the Civil War or the depths of the Great Depression, swiftly made a ...

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There Are Limits to What the Courts Can Do in the Face of Trump’s Legal Onslaught

admin29 April 2025

For weeks Americans have been debating whether we’re facing a constitutional crisis. My answer, for the record, is that we are. But perhaps more than a constitutional crisis, we’re in a rule of law crisis. And while the courts are caught in the ...

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Justice, Louisiana-Style, for Immigrants

admin29 April 2025

Several of the recent high-profile cases of immigrant detention share something in common. The Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, University of Alabama engineering doctoral candidate Alireza Doroudi, Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk ...

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A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars

admin28 April 2025

In his first hours back as president, Donald J. Trump did an extraordinary thing: He made a direct assault on the Constitution. He declared that his government would no longer treat U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants or children of lawful ...

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Apple and Meta Are First to Be Hit by E.U. Digital Competition Law

admin25 April 2025

The European Commission said the Silicon Valley companies violated the Digital Markets Act, a law meant to crimp the power of the largest tech firms.

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Costa Rica Violated Rights of 81 Migrant Children Deported by U.S., Lawsuit Says

admin24 April 2025

A legal challenge filed Thursday aims to encourage Central American countries to push back against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

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