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Trump Sued Over Emergency Powers To Impose Tariffs On China

A nonprofit group sued US President Donald Trump and his administration on Thursday over alleged misuse of emergency powers to impose tariffs on all imports from China earlier this year. The lawsuit disputed the legality of Trump’s executive order from February 1, not the broader set of tariffs announced on Wednesday that also target a…
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China

The New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit group that describes itself as battling “violations by the administrative state” — sued the federal government on Thursday over the means by which it imposed steep new levies on Chinese imports earlier this year…
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Justices Ask US To Respond To IRS Crypto Doc Seizure Case

The U.S. Supreme Court asked the federal government Monday to weigh in on a cryptocurrency investor’s challenge to the IRS’ seizure of his account records, a request that followed a spate of support for the investor, including by attorneys general and Elon Musk’s X Corp…
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New Civil Liberties Alliance Urges High Court To Hear FINRA Constitutionality Case

The New Civil LIberties Alliance (NCLA) filed an amicus curiae brief i support of a broker’s petition for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to address the constitutionality of the Financial Regulatory Authority (FINRA), as well as what constitutes an irreperable injury for the purpose of a preliminary injunction…
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Doctor Defends Exam Saying Judge Newman Is Fit To Serve

A neurosurgeon who examined Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman and declared her fit to serve on the bench pushed back Tuesday on criticism of his evaluation made by doctors retained by the appeals court’s other judges, who have suspended the 97-year-old jurist…
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OPINION: Will SCOTUS Help Trump Tame the Leviathan?

As President Trump and Elon Musk strive, from the Executive branch, to tame the federal leviathan, a case coming up at the Supreme Court offers the judiciary an opportunity to aid the noble cause. The dispute centers on the “Universal Service Fund,” paid for in part by a tax on Americans’ phone bills. On Wednesday,…
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