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The depth of the Supreme Court’s corruption has forced us to find new language to describe its actions. Today’s decision, undoing Trump’s massive array of tariffs that upended the global financial system, is a case in point.
We say the Court “struck down” these tariffs. But that wording is inadequate and misleading. These tariffs were always transparently illegal. Saying the actions were “struck down” suggests at least a notional logic which the Court disagreed with, or...

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A new Bloomberg piece on a key figure in the Trump DOJ could have real-world, on-the-ground implications for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s vindictive prosecution claim.
The subject of the profile is 33-year-old associate deputy attorney general Aakash Singh, who works in the office of Todd Blanche and is described as DOJ’s “brashest enforcer” in transmitting the demands of the Trump White House to the 94 U.S. attorneys...

The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s signature economic and foreign policy Friday morning in a fractured 6-3 decision.

As President Donald Trump’s actions targeting federal government unions and employees make their way through the courts, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests the president’s show of force against American public servants may have backfired...