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Media Mentions
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Laurence Tribe: God Save This Dishonorable Court
February 14, 2025
Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe joins the “Impolitic with John Heilemann” Podcast to discuss the radical challenge to the prevailing legal order by Donald Trump’s actions…
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How Trump Uses Language to Attack the Idea of Transgender Identity
February 14, 2025
On his first day back in office, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order declaring that there are only two sexes, male and female,…
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Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’
February 14, 2025
Vice President JD Vance declared on Sunday that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” delivering a warning shot to the federal judiciary…
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President Trump’s Campaign of ‘Structural Deregulation’
February 14, 2025
An op-ed by Jody Freeman: A few years ago, we published an article in the Harvard Law Review describing how a determined president could…
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The Harvard Law School Library says it is releasing an archive of more than 300,000 government data sets, aiming to protect vital public information at…
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Trump moves to shutter environmental offices across the government
February 6, 2025
In a little over two weeks, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented steps to shutter or remake federal offices focused on the environment, causing turmoil…
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Whole Foods says Trump’s actions make union win moot
February 6, 2025
Amazon-owned Whole Foods asked regulators to dismiss the results of a union election at a Philadelphia store, citing President Donald Trump’s firing of two leaders…
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The high price of scrapping the social cost of carbon
February 5, 2025
An op-ed by Cass Sunstein: With the deluge of executive orders in the initial weeks of the second Trump administration, an important directive flew under…
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A fired member of the National Labor Relations Board sued President Donald Trump on Wednesday, alleging that he exceeded his authority and broke with nine…
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Trump Is Testing Our Constitutional System. It’s Doing Fine.
February 4, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The Trump administration is subjecting the US constitutional system to a stress test. We’re on the treadmill, with instruments recording…
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How Donald Trump Is Transforming Executive Power
February 4, 2025
Throughout his first two weeks in office, Donald Trump has been firing officials across the federal government, including inspectors general at Cabinet agencies and prosecutors…
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Trump is testing the limits of his executive powers
February 4, 2025
President Donald Trump is testing the limits of his authority in the first two weeks of his term with varying levels of success. Harvard Law…
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Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
February 4, 2025
On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate…
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Soon after Whole Foods employees in Philadelphia celebrated winning a union election early this week, drama in Washington overshadowed the victory. The same night workers…
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Eastern KY activists bought land where feds wanted to build a prison
February 3, 2025
A community building and land restoration group bought a plot of Letcher County land that’s been targeted for a new federal prison. The Appalachian Rekindling…
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The Excuses For DEI Programs Get Worse and Worse
February 3, 2025
Not that long ago, corporate sponsored discrimination on the basis of race under the guise of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs was justified on…
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The Great and Powerful President
January 31, 2025
With Donald Trump’s second term in full swing, Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith joins Sarah Isgur and David French to discuss the unitary executive theory.
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How Trump’s Federal-Aid Fiasco Is Testing the Separation of Powers
January 30, 2025
On Tuesday, the Trump Administration sent out a memo attempting to put a blanket pause on most federal funding, sowing confusion about financing for student…
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President Trump abruptly fired dozens of officials in the past few days — including inspectors general, a member of the National Labor Relations Board and…
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Trump’s OMB Order Is Vague, Confusing and Illegal
January 29, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: A week into his presidency, Donald Trump is officially on a tear. The president’s Office of Management and Budget has…
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One way to save lives in jails
January 29, 2025
A 1976 Supreme Court decision said that while the Constitution requires that incarcerated people receive healthcare, the quality of the care doesn’t need to be…