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ACLU files class-action lawsuit on behalf of detained immigrants denied bond hearings
September 24, 2025
The ACLU has filed a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of immigrants who are being detained by ICE agents and denied bond hearings, contrary to…
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Can Liberalism Be Saved?
September 23, 2025
For several decades, Cass Sunstein has been one of the most prominent and prolific legal scholars in the United States. A onetime faculty member at…
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Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Wage Drug Trafficking War
September 19, 2025
Draft legislation is circulating at the White House and on Capitol Hill that would hand President Trump sweeping power to wage war against drug cartels…
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Blaming Charlie Kirk’s Assassination on Free Speech Is Dangerous
September 18, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration is following a very specific, very old script. It argues…
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Opinion: Ditch quarterly earnings like Trump says? What’s needed is better reporting — not less.
September 18, 2025
An op-ed co-written by Mark Roe: President Donald Trump has proposed that U.S. public companies issue semiannual reports instead of quarterly reports. In his view,…
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Why rescuing animals should never be a crime
September 17, 2025
An article co-written by Kristen Stilt: Imagine you see your neighbor’s dog drowning in their backyard pool. You call out for the neighbor and bang on…
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How to Prevent Our First A.I. President
September 17, 2025
An op-ed by Jill Lepore: In 2016, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, read James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787 because, he…
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Ice puts more than 10,000 people in solitary in a year – and figures are rising under Trump
September 17, 2025
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) put more than 10,500 people in solitary confinement between April 2024 and May 2025, and use of the practice…
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Guest: Sharon Block Title: Professor of practice and executive director, Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard Law School
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Will the Supreme Court End FERC’s Independence?
September 17, 2025
President Donald Trump is poised to have more than one of his own nominees on FERC for the first time in his second term, and,…
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CT battling Trump EPA proposal to end greenhouse gas regulation
September 17, 2025
The “endangerment finding” is a seemingly nondescript term for what is arguably the most critical regulation in the U.S.’s climate change-fighting arsenal. It allows the…
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The DOJ Is Using Bad Lawyering to End Fed Independence
September 16, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The Trump administration is trying to block Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook from participating in the Fed meeting that begins…
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Legal experts see a new Trump administration move to block an offshore wind project alongside Maryland’s Ocean City as a targeted strike against clean-energy infrastructure…
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These United States: A history of the Constitution
September 15, 2025
Over the past several decades, the checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated. Tony Dokoupil talks with…
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Jill Lepore Thinks the U.S. Constitution Might Break America
September 15, 2025
One of President Joe Biden’s last acts in the sepulchral twilight of his presidency was to try but fail to amend the Constitution. On Jan.
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E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
September 15, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to stop requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release…
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How To Fix Our Broken Constitution
September 12, 2025
There is a “stuckness” to American political life right now, which has become a seemingly inexorable centrifuge of polarization, victimization and power grabbing. The constitution…
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Large-load Tariffs Touted as Alternative to ‘Side Deals’
September 12, 2025
As regulators grapple with rate design for large-load electricity customers such as data centers, some experts are pointing out the transparency benefits of tariffs compared…
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Is the Constitution Broken?
September 12, 2025
It has been a rocky year for the U.S. Constitution. Eight months into a fast-moving presidency that legal scholars keep describing as a “constitutional stress…
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3rd Circ.’s Grid-Planning Ruling Will Coax States To Play Ball
September 12, 2025
A Third Circuit decision limiting states’ ability to block transmission projects already greenlighted by regional grid operators could make a federal overhaul of transmission planning…
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Clients Push Big Law Firms to Use Generative AI for Cost Savings
September 12, 2025
Law firm partners are wrestling with a new question from clients: How are you using generative artificial intelligence to lower the cost of your work?…