5/2/17  //  Uncategorized

Announcing a new feature on Take Care that makes it easy to stay on top of the latest news across a range of issue areas

5/1/17  //  Daily Update

Courts keep taking Trump at his word and invalidating programs on that basis. Assessments of Trump's first 100 days focused on his regulatory agenda. EPA has removed the climate change page from its website. The NSA has announced the suspension of the "About" program.

4/28/17  //  Commentary

Protecting the civil service from purges, intimidation, or politicization is vital to a healthy democracy. That's why United to Protect Democracy has filed suit to combat a troubling pattern of bullying civil servants and trying to silence dissent.

4/27/17  //  Quick Reactions

Professor Jed Shugerman analyzes a Reuters report that state pensions, run by state officers, are investing and paying public money to Trump LLCs

4/24/17  //  Commentary

Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law School) analyzes CREW's emoluments clause lawsuit against President Trump, discussing the recent addition of two plaintiffs and the likely course ahead.

4/24/17  //  Latest Developments

Take Care offers a quick, rough breakdown of the amicus briefs filed last week concerning President Trump's revised executive order.

4/20/17  //  Latest Developments

Take Care is pleased to announce the release of "Versus Trump," a new, affiliated podcast about the ways that the Trump Administration is breaking the law—and what people are doing about it.

4/7/17  //  Quick Reactions

Abbe Gluck explains that the Republicans’ win-at-all-costs strategy will almost certainly lead next to the end of the filibuster for legislation, not just nominations, which would fundamentally change the culture of the Senate and be a tragic loss for our democracy.

3/24/17  //  Commentary

Abbe Gluck explains that, ironically, the GOP proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act in the name of returning authority over health care to the states has potentially serious constitutional issues on federalism grounds.

3/24/17  //  Commentary

President Trump recently announced that EPA will reconsider fuel efficiency standards. But so long as California remains free to set its own, more protective standard, Trump's decision may not matter very much. And the law is squarely on California's side.

3/22/17  //  Daily Update

Analysis of President Trump's immigration policies, from the entry ban to sanctuary cities, continues. The U.S. and U.K. announced limits on the in-flight carrying of electronic devices on planes from selected Muslim-majority nations. And the Trump Administration is preparing to roll back key Obama-era climate change rules.

3/21/17  //  Daily Update

Yesterday, Take Care published several analyses of President Trump's revised entry ban, as well as an assessment of whether Judge Gorsuch likely would vote to uphold it. In other news, at a congressional hearing, FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the agency is investigating whether the Trump Campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. Comey also confirmed that President Trump's claims that President Obama wiretapped him during the campaign are baseless.

3/20/17  //  Daily Update

Legal commentary remains focused on President Trump's revised entry ban, which has been blocked by two federal judges. Late on Friday, several judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals published opinions regarding that court's denial of rehearing en banc in Washington v. Trump. Elsewhere, the big news on Friday was a brief filed by the Department of Justice that argued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is structured in an unconstitutional manner.

3/16/17  //  Commentary

Take Care is a new collaborative blog that will provide insightful, accessible, and timely analysis of whether the President is adhering to legal limits on his authority.

3/15/17  //  Daily Update

Last night, a federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide temporary restraining order against President Trump's revised entry ban, concluding that it likely violates the Establishment Clause. Hours earlier, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear en banc its ruling on Trump's original entry ban, though its decision prompted dueling opinions. In other news, President Trump ordered a review of Obama-era vehicle emissions standards.