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532 U.S. 514 (2001) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases No. 99-1687. United States Supreme Court. Argued December 5, 2000. Decided May 21, 2001. [*] CERTIORARI TO ...
Rutgers University Search all Cases In April 2011, as part of its annual April Fools' edition, Rutgers student satire publication The Medium published a fake editorial titled "What about the good thin...
The "chilling effect" means that people are being discouraged or intimidated from engaging in expression for fear of negative consequences, such as social disapproval, retaliation, or lawsuits. By Dav...
Recent tensions between the United States and Iran have led many members of Congress to speculate about what legal authority the Trump administration may claim it has to go to war without congressiona...
University of Southern California Search all Cases On September 13, 2018, student journalists associated with student news outlets at the University of Southern California — including the Daily Trojan...
Loyola University, Chicago Search all Cases In 2018, Loyola University Chicago instituted a “Media Relations Policy” in order to further its “brand” — ostensibly as an institution that stands for free...
January 6, 2012 Chancellor Steve Ballard East Carolina University Office of the Chancellor East Fifth Street Greenville, North Carolina 27858 Sent via Electronic Mail, U.S. Mail, and Facsimile (252-32...
Yesterday, on Dec. 13, the Senate made history. By a vote of 56-41, it adopted S.J. Res. 54 , a bipartisan joint resolution that directs U.S. forces to withdraw from “hostilities” in Yemen not related...
Recent U.S. actions in Venezuela underscore the president’s broad authority to use military force. But threats of a “second wave” may still run up against its limits. Early in the morning on Jan. 3, t...
Congress originally enacted the 2002 AUMF to remove Saddam Hussein. But in the subsequent 20 years, it’s been used for so much more. Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series on the histor...
Repeal isn’t just good housekeeping. It would help ensure that Congress weighs in before pursuing another major war in the Middle East. Editor's Note: This is the second in a two-part series on the hi...
Right or wrong, the executive branch likely thinks Trump has the legal authority to do it—at least until Congress or the courts say otherwise. Last week, Israel launched a massive military campaign ag...
On April 2, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States...
As the Americas drift toward rule by fiat, Canadian courts are enforcing strict limits on emergency powers. In a recent Lawfare piece, Jeffery Tobin argued that the Americas are fast becoming a “Hemis...
Can a president declare an economic emergency and, with the stroke of a pen, reshape U.S. tariff policy on a global scale? The Supreme Court confronted that possibility on Nov. 5 when it heard oral ar...
How the Court’s fractured tariff decision may reshape delegated executive authority well beyond trade—and why the future of the major questions doctrine remains far from settled. On Feb. 20, the Supre...
When lawyers are motivated to “get to yes,” their work is prone to bullshit (in the technical sense). And this OLC opinion is full of it. The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has ...
More than 10 months after they were enacted , the U.S. Supreme Court finally put an end to President Trump’s “emergency” tariffs. Gone are the president’s “ reciprocal tariffs ” against virtually ever...
In the season finale of Escalation , Anastasiia Lapatina and Yulia Tymoshenko recount Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022. The western world is shocked, and U.S. President Joe Bi...
Newly-independent Ukraine has inherited thousands of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. So The United States, Russia and Ukraine craft a high-stakes deal to disarm Ukraine in exchange for n...