Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

(Photo by ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Last month, Justice Sonia Sotomayor was pretty confident in the soft power that courts would be able to deploy as a check against the Trump administration. Things might look bad right now, but it’s not like the administration would just openly defy court orders, right?

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Above The Law

MARCH 28, 2025

Tenured professors are getting fired for sharing thoughts that aren’t in line with mainstream political doxa or being forced into protracted court battles to get back into their class rooms. And the backlash isn’t just hitting professors.

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Above The Law

APRIL 18, 2025

And given the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s recent opinion, that problem may be here to stay for a while. From WTOP : The Democratic governor of Wisconsins creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be attention grabbing, but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The separation of church and state is usually invoked to argue against the state being turned into a religious outpost, but its reversal should also hold true — the government shouldn’t be able to target places of religious worship to harvest and imprison or deport the undocumented, right?

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Above The Law

APRIL 3, 2025

These precedents establish that the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion. In inflicting this retribution, the Order contradicts centuries of precedent safeguarding free speech, the right of association, and the right to petition. Natl Rifle Assn v.

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Above The Law

APRIL 21, 2025

About that… apparently the Executive has the authority to find court orders “erroneous.” Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. It seems couched in the assumptions that people are willing to advocate for the rule of law and that the government will heed their petitions. ” Sotomayor changed her tune by March.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Courts overturned Nixon, Bush, and Trump. ” It isn’t “lawless” if the Supreme Court rules that an abuse of power was abusive. … These bold assertions, designed to intimidate judges by threatening removal if they do not rule the government’s way, cross the line. Thats literally their job.

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Above The Law

APRIL 30, 2025

Many have spoken out against Trump’s targeted attacks on the rule of law: a sitting Supreme Court justice , a former Supreme Court justice , hundreds of law school professors ; the list goes on. Reuters has coverage: More than 1,100 law students on Tuesday filed a court brief supporting law firm Susman Godfrey, saying U.S.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

There might be some debate over if the right “types” of Christian are filling the ranks, be they Mormon or Catholic, but unless there’s some secret Zoroastrian front calling all of the shots, whatever anti-Christian sentiment happening in the government is likely coming from other Christians squabbling over doctrinal differences.

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