Even for lawyers, keeping up with all the litigation filed against the Trump Executive Branch is hard. For nonlawyers, I imagine it is harder, especially because many of the suits make similar claims, seeking similar relief: injunctions – specific commands - to halt the conduct complained about. With the caveat that

As the Trump regime settles in, it menaces so much. I will spare you a list. Today, I kept feeling surges of fear. I tried to summon courage but it was hard. Then, I came across some examples of other people showing courage and it got easier for me to

NOTE BENE: Many of the links in this post go to archived web pages. I have done this in case the current live pages are taken down. Today, Engineering Director of the United States Digital Service (USDS) resigned in protest over the USDS's takeover by Trump's

Today, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) finally put out a statement saying they are "very concerned" by Trump regime members questioning the "courts' authority to review the legality of executive action." The entire statement is fairly tepid compared to the one put out

There are a number of dimensions to the current, ongoing constitutional crisis in the United States, all of which arise from actions taken by the Trump regime. There is the burgeoning conflict between the federal executive and federal judiciary which is likely headed to a showdown over the executive'

Just when you think you can't be more alarmed and disgusted by the Republican Fascist regime, further horrendous stuff happens. Just because none of it is surprising doesn't mean it isn't shocking. Nothing Trump, Musk, the Trump cabinet heads and other Trump appointees are

Even a (so-far) nonviolent constitutional crisis moves swiftly. So far today there have been significant developments in two ongoing lawsuits to check the unlawful, unconstitutional conduct of the Trump regime. Both bring us closer to the inevitable face-off between the federal judiciary and that regime. The two suits are both

Earlier today, I wrote about the dangerous trajectory toward violent conflict set off by the Trump regime's refusal to comply with federal court orders. Now, the twenty-three states who won an injunction to pause Trump's efforts to stop funding federal programs have filed a motion with

With organizations like Democracy Forward and Public Citizen winning court-ordered pauses in the various unlawful actions taken by Trump Cabinet officials kowtowing to Elon Musk's unlawful DOGE (which I urge everyone to call FIDO or DOGGY), we are quickly headed toward an unprecedented clash between two branches of

The point of this post is to offer some explanation of a lawsuit filed yesterday, February 3, Alliance for Retired Americans v. Bessent. The case may slow or stop Trump and Musk from implementing a constitutional coup, though from its title it might seem otherwise. The named defendant is Scott