US appeals court rejects Trump’s emergency bid to curtail birthright citizenship
The US Court of Appeals confirmed Wednesday that it would comply with an order that would block President Donald Trump from cutting automatic birth citizenship across the country as part of a Republican hardline crackdown on immigration and illegal border crossings. I did. The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit rejected the Trump administration's request for an […]
We must curtail the presidential pardon power in case Trump wins
According to Alexander Hamilton, the vast unilateral power to grant pardonsMeticulousness and caution will naturally emerge.” to the president. Clearly, then, the framers of the Constitution did not recognize the danger posed by a president as greedy, nepotistic, and reckless as Donald Trump. In his first term, we saw how Trump flouted this measure of […]
Looming Supreme Court decision could curtail federal agency powers
The Supreme Court is soon set to hand down a ruling that could strip federal agencies of their power and expand judges’ authority. The decision, which could be made as soon as this week, could limit the agency’s power to issue any number of consumer, workplace and environmental safeguards. During oral arguments, the court’s conservative […]