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What a Week!
The third week of July felt like a movie script rejected for being unrealistic.
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Ilya Shapiro
Wrapping Up the Supreme Court Term
Statistics and themes on the term that was, and a brief glimpse at the future.
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Ilya Shapiro
Presidents Can't Be Prosecuted for Doing Their Jobs
My take on the Trump immunity case, which the Supreme Court largely got right.
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Ilya Shapiro
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June 2024

Triple Threat Against the Administrative State
Yesterday I filed three briefs challenging various aspects of bureaucratic overreach.
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Ilya Shapiro
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Supreme Court Punts Issue of the Constitutionality of a Wealth Tax
What was supposed to be a major decision on economic policy ended up interesting only people with exotic foreign investments and their tax lawyers.
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Ilya Shapiro
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Left Assails SCOTUS for Blocking Trump's Rewrite of Federal Law
In Garland v. Cargill, the justices broke on ideological lines over whether the ATF can redefine the meaning of "machinegun."
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Ilya Shapiro
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The Boys of Pointe du Hoc Return to Normandy for the Last Time
The 80th anniversary of D-Day and the end of our living memory of World War 2.
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Ilya Shapiro
The Trump Verdict Is a Travesty of Justice
Not just the conviction but the entire process should offend any lover of the rule of law.
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Ilya Shapiro
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May 2024

April 2024

Time Runs Out on TikTok
The recently passed federal legislation is about national security, not free speech.
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Ilya Shapiro
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