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Pence and Obstruction of Justice

Exploring Vice President Pence’s potential criminal jeopardy for conspiring to obstruct justice, aiding the obstruction of justice, and 'misprision of a felony' in concealing the obstruction of justice.

Jed Shugerman

Fordham Law School

Trump Can’t Revoke DACA Without Going Through Notice and Comment

9/5/17 // In-Depth Analysis

Dreamers should invoke administrative law to block Trump's DACA decision

Daniel Hemel

University of Chicago Law School

Oceans Apart But Still a Close Familial Relation

9/5/17 // In-Depth Analysis

Analysis of the Ninth Circuit's latest travel ban argument (and some personal reflections).

Sarah Mahmood

Killing The Dream

9/5/17 // In-Depth Analysis

Donald Trump's apparent reasons for (apparently) rescinding DACA make little sense.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Trump's (Apparent) DACA Position Is At Odds With His Travel Ban Brief

9/4/17 // Commentary

The Trump administration will invoke whatever views of statutes and executive power maximize cruelty towards the foreign nationals he and his supporters most despise.

Michael C. Dorf

Cornell Law School

Versus Trump: Waking Dream(host)

8/31/17 // Commentary

On this week’s episode of Versus Trump, we talk about web-hosting company Dreamhost's refusal to cooperate fully with the Trump Administration's broad request for information about the visitors to DisruptJ20.org, a website allegedly used by those involved in an Inauguration Day riot. Listen now!

Jason Harrow

Gerstein Harrow LLP

Easha Anand

San Francisco

Charlie Gerstein

Gerstein Harrow LLP

A Reprieve for Texas’s Sanctuary Cities

8/31/17 // Commentary

Cities need to be recognized as constitutional actors in their own right, worthy of protection and capable of self-determination.

Richard C. Schragger

UVA School of Law

Questions about the Emoluments Amicus Brief on Behalf of Trump

8/31/17 // In-Depth Analysis

The amicus brief filed by Seth Barrett Tillman and Josh Blackman has some serious problems with how it represents its historical sources.

Jed Shugerman

Fordham Law School

What if Trump Censors Climate Science?

8/31/17 // In-Depth Analysis

Are there legal remedies if Trump refuses to officially accept the Climate Science Special Report?

Dov Fox

University of San Diego School of Law

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

Proving Intentional Discrimination, Redux

8/30/17 // Commentary

Insights from a recent lawsuit about Arizona’s decision to force the Tucson Unified School District to eliminate its successful Mexican American Studies program

Charlotte Garden

Seattle University School of Law

Trump, Arpaio, and the Danger of Politicizing DOJ

8/29/17 // In-Depth Analysis

Trump asked if DOJ could drop the case against Arpaio. Such interference with prosecutive decisions threatens the legitimacy of the Justice Department.

Chiraag Bains

Harvard Law School

The Problem(s) With The Arpaio Pardon

8/29/17 // Commentary

Like so much of what Trump has done, the Arpaio pardon raises multiple challenges to our constitutional system.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Lark Turner

Congress’s Constitution, Redux

8/28/17 // In-Depth Analysis

Here I respond to insightful comments on Congress's Constitution.

Josh Chafetz

Cornell Law School

Human Rights and Nuclear Ambitions

8/28/17 // Commentary

Humanitarian concerns and international human rights law simply can’t be ignored or downplayed in any discussion of the North Korean nuclear problem—they are two sides of the same coin

Julia Sherman