The Courtroom Drama Over Rebecca Slaughter’s Job

On Tuesday, September 2, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a narrow 2–1 decision ordering that Rebecca Kelly Slaughter—a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) whom President Trump had dismissed earlier this year—be reinstated without delay. Now, the judges didn’t pluck this out of thin air. They leaned on a bedrock case…

When Justice and Redemption Cross Paths

A New York state appeals court has tossed out the nearly half-billion-dollar civil fraud judgment that had been hanging over President Trump and the Trump Organization since early 2024. Now, to be clear, the court didn’t let him completely off the hook. The judges agreed that Trump and his businesses stretched the truth when it…

An Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Firing Federal Workers

On July 8, 2025, the Supreme Court handed President Trump a major procedural victory by issuing an unsigned emergency order that lifted a lower court’s injunction. That injunction—issued by a federal judge in San Francisco—had blocked Trump’s executive order authorizing mass layoffs across 19 federal agencies. This ruling doesn’t declare the executive order fully legal…

Citizenship, Sovereignty, and the Scales of Justice

The Supreme Court is once again at the center of a national debate with far-reaching consequences. At stake is President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, which aims to end birthright citizenship for children born on U.S. soil to non-citizen parents. This move reignites a long-standing and emotionally charged conversation about the meaning of citizenship, national sovereignty,…