As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?
Today’s bonus issue of “One First” uses Tuesday’s executive order on elections to illustrate what a President can (and, as importantly, *can’t*) do through an executive order—and how major media organizations should do better in reporting on them: [www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-134-...](
Bonus 134: What Executive Orders Can (and Can't) Do
President Trump's ominous new executive order on election administration is constrained by the limits on what an executive order can directly accom...
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Bonus 134: What Executive Orders Can (and Can't) Do
President Trump's ominous new executive order on election administration is constrained by the limits on what an executive order can directly accom...
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Seven of my colleagues and friends at Columbia Law have written a compelling (and, in my view unanswerable) response to the unprecedented Title VI demand letter that the Trump administration recently sent to Columbia University: [balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...](
Balkinization
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Balkinization
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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