Cornhead writes: Foreigners who reside outside of the USA, don’t have a green card or a visa don’t have any constitutional rights. And especially they have no right of entry to the USA. If it were otherwise, expect about one … Continue reading →
If you want some good discussions of the legal niceties of the restraining order issued on Trump immigration EO, there are a number of posts you can read: this and this at Legal Insurrection, this at Powerline, and this at … Continue reading →
Riots in Berkeley, California resulted in the university’s decision to cancel a scheduled speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, and the incident has been characterized as a blow against freedom of speech and/or First Amendment rights. In a very technical sense it … Continue reading →
Alan Dershowitz continues his refusal to toe the Democratic party line, although I’m virtually certain he remains a Democrat: An attorney general, like any citizen, has the right to disagree with a presidential order, but unless it is clear that … Continue reading →
Most of us old enough to remember can recall a time when the Senate involved a fair amount of compromise, at least on presidential appointments. It pretty much boiled down to the idea that what goes around comes around. Unless … Continue reading →
And it’s Neil Gorsuch. “I am a man of my word” says Trump. Here’s what the WaPo had to say about Goresuch three days ago: Indeed, Gorsuch, now 49, seems naturally equipped for his spot on President Trump’s shortlist of … Continue reading →
Donald Trump fired acting AG Sally Yates after she refused to defend his recent executive order on immigration. Why do I call the firing “unremarkable,” when it’s the news du jour? Because any president in his position would have done … Continue reading →
President Trump’s talk of voter fraud causing him to lose the 2016 popular vote has unleashed a storm of criticism with two main points. The first is that his accusation is undermining our democracy. The second is that his claim … Continue reading →
First of all, let’s get the legalism out of the way: Obama didn’t pardon Manning. The verdict stands. Obama shortened Manning’s sentence by a huge amount, commuting the original 35 years (of which Manning has served 6) to time served … Continue reading →
As a contributor to the Legal Insurrection blog, I have a special interest in the attempt that’s presently going on to silence Legal Insurrection from reporting through YouTube videos on hearings connected with the BDS movement. Here’s the story as … Continue reading →
Most of the accused officers who were put on trial in the Freddie Gray case are suing the prosecution and the sheriff: A federal judge is allowing key parts of a lawsuit against Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, brought … Continue reading →
I often cross-post at the blog Legal Insurrection, but most of the time my posts there are just slightly-edited versions of posts here. However, today I have a post up at LI which is related to one I wrote here … Continue reading →