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On Mercury Emissions, Trump's EPA Didn’t Violate The Law; It Did Something Weirder

1/8/19  //  In-Depth Analysis

The EPA just issued an incredibly bizarre proposed rule about whether it is 'appropriate and necessary' to regulate power-plant emissions of mercury. What gives?

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Trump’s EPA is Preparing to Violate the Law

9/10/18  //  Commentary

Undoing existing rules governing mercury pollution would be both pointless and dangerous. It would also be illegal.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Scott Pruitt is Gone. What’s Next Could Be Worse.

7/5/18  //  Quick Reactions

Pruitt’s departure is warranted and long-overdue. But given what likely lies ahead, it is hardly cause to breathe easy.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Disparate Impact and the Administrative Procedure Act

5/10/18  //  Commentary

The Supreme Court has held that there's no private right of action to enforce Title VI. But the civil rights laws can still form the basis of a challenge to a waiver allowing states to impose work requirements.

Nick Bagley

University of Michigan Law School

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

There’s No Justification for Michigan’s Discriminatory Work Requirements

5/9/18  //  Uncategorized

Low-income residents in Michigan’s cities are significantly less able to travel for work than people in rural communities. But Michigan legislators wants to exempt only the latter from their new work requirements. That's both immoral and illegal.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Nick Bagley

University of Michigan Law School

Michigan’s Discriminatory Work Requirements

5/8/18  //  Uncategorized

Michigan legislators want to exempt rural residents from Medicaid work requirements, but not extend the same accommodation to people who live in cities. The racial disparities are obvious—and unlawful.

Nick Bagley

University of Michigan Law School

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Scott Pruitt?

4/13/18  //  In-Depth Analysis

Can Scott Pruitt be stopped in court?

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

A New Threat to Punish Sanctuary City Officials

1/24/18  //  Commentary

Once again, the Trump Administration is baselessly threatening its political opponents with criminal charges.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Trump's Dangerous Call to Open Criminal Investigations into Democrats

10/30/17  //  Quick Reactions

As a nation, we now find ourselves in uncharted territory.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

EPA Defies Its Own Best Analysis of the Clean Power Plan

10/10/17  //  In-Depth Analysis

Put simply, the Pruitt EPA is issuing its proposed repeal order despite its own best analysis showing that repealing the Clean Power Plan is a very, very bad idea.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Trump’s Trans Ban Isn’t 'Frozen'

8/30/17  //  Commentary

It’s time to stop pretending the Executive Branch is going to check Donald Trump.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Let’s Not Burn The Paris Agreement To Save It

5/17/17  //  Commentary

Today on Take Care, Professor Ann Carlson offers a provocative idea. She suggests that we should be rooting—alongside EPA administrator Scott Pruitt—for the Trump Administration to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accords. Here’s a less provocative take: No, we shouldn’t.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Calculating Costs and Defining Our Future

4/25/17  //  Commentary

The March for Science reminded us that cutting funding to science today harms generations to come. Yet there is also another, subtler way the Trump Administration threatens to impose future costs on young people: the way in which it calculates costs themselves in cost-benefit analyses essential to our administrative state.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

Why The Keystone XL Pipeline Permit Can Be Challenged in Court

4/3/17  //  Commentary

The State Department's decision authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline raises a profound question about when courts can review agency action based in presidential power. The answer to that question has major implications for the rule of law.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School

The Injustice of Trump's Climate Order

3/29/17  //  Commentary

As a result of Trump's tragic climate order, people will suffer, and some will die. Not only years from now, but also in the short term.

Eli Savit

University of Michigan Law School