Jessica Levinson
MS NOW Columnist
Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, is the host of the “Passing Judgment” podcast. She is also the director of the Public Service Institute at Loyola Law School, director of Loyola’s Journalist Law School and former president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission.
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Jessica Levinson
The president’s executive order requires that the attorney general establish an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state restrictions.
Though career prosecutors apparently concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to charge James Comey and Letitia James, and a judge threw out their indictments, don’t expect President Donald Trump’s administration to give up.
If a judge allows Trump to federalize the National Guard in one state and send it to another, the safeguards are off when it comes to a president’s ability to take control of the National Guard.
It appears that the Trump administration is losing — for a second time — its argument that it has the power to issue sweeping tariffs .
The theme of this term was bigger than just a conservative majority acting like a conservative majority.
The primary legal question is whether the Trump administration had the power to federalize the National Guard against the wishes of the state’s governor.
Does a president have the power to hobble media outlets based on his disagreement with their content? Not according to the Constitution.
What people should know about the federal charges brought against McIver following an incident at a Newark ICE detention facility.
The current investigation into the former FBI director is precisely what the First Amendment was designed to guard against.
Federal judges are acting as the last guardrail against a president embracing a broader view of executive authority than we’ve ever seen before.
