Constitutional Law

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. [...]

Florida Woman Files “Tester” Suit(s)

January 22, 2024

Laufer, a Florida woman who qualifies as a disabled person, holds herself out to be “an advocate of the rights of similarly situated disabled persons.” As such, this Floridian crusader, albeit un-caped, has filed over 600 lawsuits with the goal of enforcing Title III of the ADA. [...]

A Reality We Know All Too Well

November 20, 2023

"Although gun violence is not unique to the United States, the proportion in which gun related deaths occur in the United States in comparison to the rest of the world is much higher." [...]

Shedding Light on the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket

April 2, 2021

The Supreme Court of the United States as an institution is often praised for its transparency and articulate reasoning that serves as a lodestar for judges, scholars, and law students. When opinions are handed down, they are closely studied for legal arguments that eventually make their way back to court in other cases. The standard operating procedure to have a case heard before the Court is a long and often slow process that prioritizes careful decision-making over speed. A lawyer will [...]

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? [...]