Current Events
Scholars’ Amicus Brief in the Tariff Cases
I joined this scholars’ amicus curiae brief in the tariff litigation, organized by Professor Sam Estreicher (NYU) and filed on Friday: Brief of Professors of Administrative Law, Separation of Powers, Foreign Relations Law, Legislation and the Regulatory State, and...
A Trumpian Headache
President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations — all 1,500 miles from the U.S. — has posed grave issues of due process. The...
The Unseen Positives in Government Layoffs
Under the gigantic welfare-warfare state under which we have all been born and raised, it is easy to fall for the mainstream press’s condemnations of any significant reductions in the number of federal employees and in the federal programs they administer. The statist...
Making Corporatism Great Again
President Trump has recently endorsed a policy that is arguably as socialist as anything proposed by New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani or Sen. Bernie Sanders — partial government ownership of private corporations. Earlier this year, as a condition of approving...