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WilmerHale win big, as judge strikes down executive order
More Of This
Judge Richard J. Leon of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia used over two dozen exclamation points in his opinion striking down the administration’s executive order targeting WilmerHale. “The cornerstone of the American system of justice is an independent judiciary and an independent bar willing to tackle unpopular cases, however daunting. The founding fathers knew this!”
WilmerHale has funded over 50 ChangeLawyers Next Gen Scholarships in the last 10 years.
SCOTUS is reaping what it sowed. Could an overreaching executive diminish the judiciary?
Say It Louder
Nearly one year ago, in Trump v US, the Court granted the president sweeping immunity. Now, that same immunity is being used to challenge the judiciary. Mark Joseph Sterns at Slate argues that this decision could mark the beginning of the end for the Supreme Court, and judges as a whole.
“The majority may have also failed to foresee the ways that Trump would use the decision to diminish the court’s own power. Having freed the president to burst past existing constitutional restraints, the justices must now try to preserve their own authority from executive encroachment.”
The race to become Trump’s next SCOTUS pick
Speaking Of...
Jay Willis has a analysis of Judge James Ho of the Fifth Circuit, who recently scolded the Supreme Court for preventing the president from removing Venezuelan immigrants from the US.“Even more audaciously, Ho began his analysis by asserting that “it is not the role of the judiciary to check the excesses of the other branches.”
The era of DEI for conservatives has begun
Less Of This
Two years after the Supreme Court ended affirmative action in higher education, a new movement at universities aims move conservative faculty and students into positions of power.
Partly in response to executive orders and threats from the President, “institutions will collaborate on a number of efforts to integrate conservative and heterodox thinkers…The era of DEI for conservatives has begun.”
