Politics

End Political Violence.

September 15, 2025

Charlie Kirk is dead. The thirty-one-year-old husband and father of two was shot at the beginning of one of his signature debates at Utah Valley University. The alleged killer has now been apprehended, and officials have deemed it to be what it obviously is: a political assassination. Since news of the attack broke, there has been widespread bipartisan condemnation of Charlie’s murder. One of the first people to speak out was California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), who invited Charlie onto the [...]

Presidential Power vs. The First Amendment, Big Law, Law School Deans, and Bar Associations

April 16, 2025

President Trump has wielded his executive authority in a pointed and punitive manner against Big Law firms that have represented his political opponents and have provided legal services to clients with whom President Trump personally disagrees. With Presidential Memorandums and Executive Orders (E.O.), President Trump has terminated government contracts with the firms, revoked security clearances from lawyers, barred the firms’ lawyers from government property, and threatened third parties [...]

USAID: Domestic Battles with Foreign Aid

April 16, 2025

The attempted dismantling of USAID under executive authority has raised significant constitutional questions regarding the limits of presidential power, the role of Senate confirmation, and the judiciary's capacity to enforce compliance in the face of foreign aid suspension. [...]

President Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order is Teed Up for the Supreme Court

March 31, 2025

President Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship is teed up for consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices will likely determine whether it aligns with or contradicts the longstanding interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. [...]

FACE Act Under Heightened Scrutiny as President Trump Pardons Pro-Life Advocates

March 18, 2025

Since Dobbs, the number of pro-life activists being prosecuted for violations of the 18 U.S.C. § 248 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act saw a marked uptick under the Biden Administration. After a wave of pardons by President Trump, important legal questions remain unanswered as Congress seeks to overturn the FACE Act. [...]

Natural Law and Its Discontents

February 20, 2025

Despite suggestions that natural law theory is on the decline, recent press and political statements have suggested that the opposite is true: natural law theory is alive and well in American politics. [...]

Supreme Court Gets Supremely Partisan

April 20, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the latest nominee to be confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States. When President Joe Biden nominated now-Justice Jackson on February 25, 2022, he was fulfilling a promise, made on the 2020 Presidential Campaign trail, to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. Jackson’s nomination comes after Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would be retiring from the Court when its summer recess commences. Judge Jackson’s confirmation would replace [...]

Cancel Culture: Exploring the Legal Justifications for President Biden’s Authority to Cancel Student Through Executive Order

January 27, 2022

Issue Background In recent years the question as to what should be done about the ever-increasing amount of student loan debt, both federally and privately held, has become a hotly debated political issue. Regardless of political affiliation, it is generally agreed that student debtors are particularly burdened by their obligation to repay their loans and that this adversely affects their ability to participate in the national economy. Various plans aimed at lessening this burden have [...]

2020 – The Perfect Storm for a Constitutional Crisis, Trump v. Biden, 592 U.S. __ (2020), What will the Supreme Court Decide?

October 28, 2020

Mix a pandemic with the magnitude of this election and you just might just get a Bush v. Gore Part II. Only this time, with the abject degree of political polarization, if the Supreme Court is called upon to decide the winner, would the legitimacy of the election be accepted? [...]

Excessive use of force: where decisions made in seconds are scrutinized for years

February 25, 2019

The truth is that only those officers, under those circumstances, at that scene, on that day, can truly account for both what was and was not reasonable. [...]

No protection under law: The unchecked prevalence of violence against women in North Korea

December 15, 2018

The government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as North Korea, has found itself under international scrutiny and condemnation once again as the subject of a recent Human Rights Watch report. [...]

THE CARAVAN: human tragedy or invasion?

November 8, 2018

A caravan of approximately 5,000 people seeking asylum due to conditions in their home countries, such as gang violence, is making its way to the United States. As they approach, the United States President has categorized this movement as an invasion of the United States. [...]

Echoes from the Watergate Hotel

February 12, 2018

President Trump allegedly wanted to fire Special Council Mueller in May of 2017 in order to prevent him from investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. House Republicans have released a memo claiming the investigation was based on a bad faith request for a warrant from the Federal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. [...]

A country at stake: Iran prepares for its twelfth presidential election

May 15, 2017

The world is watching as Iran’s twelfth presidential election is scheduled for Friday, May 19. The election is considered by many to be a battleground between fundamentalists and reformists, and the results could potentially affect the country and the region for decades to come. [...]

Trump’s proposed budget receives heavy bipartisan criticism.

April 10, 2017

After proposing budget cuts to every department except those related to the military or border security, Trump has angered both Democrats and Republicans. [...]

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