In his new book Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, Supreme Court
Justice Neil Gorsuch makes an important and valuable point: in recent decades,
we have vastly increased the number of laws in the United States, producing
such complexity that even lawyers are sometimes unable to tell what the law is.
Unfortunately,…

Genevieve LakierAt this point in the Trump presidency,
it is quite clear that a central way in which the administration wields power
is by threatening those who speak and associate in ways that it dislikes with
economic or legal harm if they do not stop. These threats and promises of
payback are obviously intended to…

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg had two children, both born in New York City. When their children were less than ten, the Rosenbergs were convicted of and executed for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union.Under the “allegiance” theory of birth citizenship, it seems clear that David and Robert Rosenberg (who are both still living) are…

Following Donald Trump’s election in 2024, the owners of the major tech platforms bent the knee to Trump. Not only did they hope that Trump would make them richer at home, they also wanted Trump to use American power to help them combat regulation in the E.U. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the owner of X, poured…

The statute invoked in Mahmoud Khalil’s case brings to mind cases
from other jurisdictions. That statute provides (in the part relevant here)
that deportation is permissible if “the Secretary of State personally
determines that the alien’s presence would compromise a compelling United
States foreign policy interest.” Is such a determination conclusive? Or may it…

      Congress yesterday
enacted a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through the
six-plus months remaining in this fiscal year. 
The measure cleared the House 217-213, essentially on party lines (with
one Member on each side voting against their parties).  It passed the Senate 54-46, with two senators
that caucus with Democrats voting…

By Kate Andrias, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Jamal Greene, Olatunde Johnson,
Jeremy Kessler, Gillian Metzger, and David Pozen

On Thursday, the president of
Columbia University received a remarkable letter
from the General Services Administration, the Department of Health and Human
Services, and the Department of Education. The letter states that the
university must meet numerous requirements by…