#constitutionality

#constitutionality

Illinois has become the latest state to launch legal action in hopes of blocking United States President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard. The lawsuit filed on Monday by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the city of Chicago officials came just hours after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked Trump from sending the National Guard to the state's largest city, Portland.

Donald Trump's efforts to defend the executive orders targeting Biglaw firms that have earned his ire are loser cases. Four different district court judges from across the political spectrum have all ruled that EOs aimed at Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, and Susman Godfrey, respectively, are unconstitutional on a variety of grounds. Yet, the administration is appealing the Jenner & Block case, and the WilmerHale case, and the Perkins Coie one too.

The Constitution does not countenance unlawful power. And when the Constitution draws boundaries, neither agency expedience nor institutional inertia can erase them.

Maryland's first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising violated the Constitution as it prevents companies from informing customers about the tax, infringing on their free speech rights.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Universal Service Fund's funding mechanism is constitutional, allowing it to continue supporting broadband for key underserved areas.

...the Quiet Skies program failed to stop a single terrorist attack since it was created. Instead, taxpayers are footing the bill for a surveillance program that turned its watchful eye inward...