Last summer, when the Supreme Court of the United States jolted the legal system by overruling the landmark Chevron decision, John Vecchione, of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, was one of many conservative legal advocates who celebrated the ruling’s downfall in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. As the lead lawyer in Relentless Inc. v. Department … Read more
“Eighty per cent of our canvassing interactions are about Musk,” Matt Mareno, the chair of the Waukesha County Democratic Party, told me. The county is heavily Republican, but Mareno said that many people have expressed frustration that Musk is unelected and not accountable to anyone. Recently, a canvasser for Schimel carrying literature from Musk’s America … Read more
Is there any stupider—or more revealing—scandal of the many that Donald Trump has already unleashed in his second term than the President’s sudden, arbitrary decision last month to ban the Associated Press from the White House press pool because its editors refused to go along with his whim to rename the Gulf of Mexico as … Read more
Since Donald Trump took office, on January 20th, his Administration has slow-walked or outright failed to comply with court orders related to a range of issues, most notably immigration and government funding. I recently spoke by phone with Samuel R. Bagenstos, a professor of law at the University of Michigan and a former general counsel … Read more
