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Bonus 165: The Appeasement Thesis
Class is in Session: Class Actions with Steve Vladeck 📚
165. TikTok and the Dispensing Power
164. Justice Kagan's D.V.D. Concurrence
Bonus 163: How (Not) To Count Supreme Court Rulings
163. A New Kind of Judicial Supremacy
162. What Does the Birthright Citizenship Ruling Portend?
Bonus 161: Why the Court Needs to Explain Itself
161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
160. The Vices of Selectively Opening Courthouse Doors
159. The Posse Comitatus Act Meets the President's "Protective Power"
Bonus 158: The Supreme Court and the Long-Term Drift of the War Powers
158. The Court's Unanimity is Greatly Exaggerated
Bonus 157: Why the Supreme Court Keeps Granting Stays to President Trump
157. A Busy (and Glitchy) Week
156. Federalizing the California National Guard
Bonus 155: The Six-Hour Settlement
155. What District Court Critics Aren't Telling You
154. The Government's Unclean Hands in D.V.D.
Bonus 152: Judge Ho, Due Process, and "Disrespect"
152. Non-Party Relief and Judicial Supremacy
151. The Supreme Court's (Alien Enemies Act) Patience is Wearing Thin
Bonus 150: A Tale of Two (Other) Immigration Cases
150. The State of Play in the Alien Enemy Act Litigation
Archived Video: Substack Live with Leah Litman, Author of "Lawless"
149. David Hackett Souter (1939–2025)
Bonus 147: Shell Games and Nationwide Injunctions
147. The Increasingly Overloaded Emergency Docket
Bonus 146: Trump vs. the Law Firms
The Courts and Trump: A Live Conversation with Adam Klasfeld and Steve Vladeck
146. Denaturalization and Expatriation
Bonus 145: How (We Think) Emergency Applications Work
145. Justice Alito's Misbegotten Dissent in A.A.R.P.
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Bonus 143: Private Special Prosecutors and Criminal Contempt of Court
143. The State of Play in the Abrego Garcia Case
142. Five Questions About Domestic Use of the Military
141. Abrego Garcia and the Presumption of Regularity
Bonus 140: The New (and Sort-of-Improved?) Shadow Docket
140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.
139. Tariffs, Non-Delegation, and the Major Questions Doctrine
138. Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power
137. Three (Quick) Reactions to the Education Grants Ruling
Bonus 136: Nationwide Injunctions vs. Nationwide Class Actions
136. Setting the Record Straight on the Anti-Trump Injunctions
135. The Trump Reckoning Reaches the Court
Bonus 134: What Executive Orders Can (and Can't) Do
134. The Attempted Assassination of Justice Field
Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law
133. Birthright Citizenship (Sort of) Reaches the Court
132. Five Questions About Trump's Alien Enemy Act Proclamation
Bonus 131: Introducing "First One"
131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case
130. The Trump Administration Goes After Bivens
Bonus 129: What Really Happened in Worcester v. Georgia?
129. Untangling the Foreign Aid Ruling
128. Impeaching Federal Judges
127. Chief Justice Roberts's Administrative Stay in the Foreign Aid Funding Cases
Bonus 126: [Chill] All the Lawyers
126. The "Fixed Star in Our Constitutional Constellation"
Bonus 125: The Federal Reserve and the Unitary Executive
125. The Court's First Trump II Case Won't Be a Bellwether
124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)
Bonus 123: The Judges' Bill Turns 100
123. What Vice President Vance Did—and Didn't—Say About Judicial Power
122. Contempt of the Supreme Court
Bonus 121: The Unitary Executive Runs Amok
121. Spending, Coercion, and Commandeering
Bonus 120: Trump's Guantánamo Memo
120. The Impoundment Crisis of 2025
119. The Federal Government as a Party
Bonus 118: On the Credibility of the Department of Justice
118. The Chief Justice and the Inauguration
Bonus 117: Opinions vs. Judgments
117. Judge Cannon and the Special Counsel's Report
116. The Corporate Transparency Act and Nationwide Injunctions