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Bonus 165: The Appeasement Thesis
One defense of the Court's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications is that the justices are picking their battles. If so, the question becomes…
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Class is in Session: Class Actions with Steve Vladeck 📚
A recording from Steve Vladeck and Katie Phang's live video
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Katie Phang
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165. TikTok and the Dispensing Power
Attorney General Bondi's TikTok-related letters rest on a view of presidential power that has no support in even the most capacious understandings of…
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164. Justice Kagan's D.V.D. Concurrence
Thursday's denouement in the third-country removals case was not surprising. But the split between Justice Kagan and Justices Sotomayor and Jackson…
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Bonus 163: How (Not) To Count Supreme Court Rulings
As we enter the season of sweeping numerical claims about the Supreme Court's October 2024 Term, it's worth rehashing out the major flaws that are baked…
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June 2025

163. A New Kind of Judicial Supremacy
The Supreme Court closed the balance of the October 2024 Term with both actions and opinions that bespeak a new vision of how it exercises power—one…
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Steve Vladeck
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162. What Does the Birthright Citizenship Ruling Portend?
Friday's ruling in Trump v. CASA will fundamentally alter the relationship between federal courts and other government institutions. How much depends…
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Bonus 161: Why the Court Needs to Explain Itself
The continuing fallout from Monday afternoon’s ruling in the third-country removals case is an object lesson for why the justices should be providing…
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161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied…
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160. The Vices of Selectively Opening Courthouse Doors
There's a direct connection between the justices' willingness to open courthouse doors to certain litigants and a merits docket with so many culture-war…
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159. The Posse Comitatus Act Meets the President's "Protective Power"
How to reconcile Article II and the Posse Comitatus Act with respect to President Trump's federalization of California National Guard troops and…
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Ryan Goodman
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Bonus 158: The Supreme Court and the Long-Term Drift of the War Powers
The common narrative is that Congress has ceded its constitutional control over war powers to the President. But the Supreme Court also bears some…
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Steve Vladeck
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