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Ilya Somin
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Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger. .. more

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Ilya Somin is an American legal scholar. He is a law professor at George Mason University, B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, a blogger for the Volokh Conspiracy, and a former co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review (2006–2013). His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, migration rights, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. .. more

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 12h
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is a worthy Nobel Peace Prize winner, and certainly vastly more so than Trump. And, yes, I know there have been some extremely unworthy winners in the past (e.g. - Yasser Arafat). That doesn't justify repeating such errors.
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Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) @cliniclegal.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks to @klasfeldreports.com , @omarjadwat.bsky.social , @ilyasomin.bsky.social and Andrew Schoenholtz for closing out our #ImmConf conference with a great final panel "Do the Courts Matter? The Trump Administration Tests the Limits of Immigration Law".
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 2d
But not within my areas of expertise.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: Second, expanded TRO issued in Oregon case challenging Trump's National Guard deployment to the state bars any state or D.C. National Guard being deployed to Oregon.

Update at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-bloc...
[Update, 11:45 p.m.: By Sunday night, a second temporary restraining order was issued in the case, barring the Trump administration from sending any National Guard federalized under 10 U.S.C. 12406 to Oregon from any state or D.C. The move followed actions by the Trump administration overnight to send members of the California National Guard to Oregon and plans to do so as to the Texas National Guard as well. At a hastily called hearing on Sunday night, Immergut harshly questioned the Justice Department lawyer before her, Eric Hamilton, asking him — while noting that he is an officer of the court — “Do you believe this is appropriate way to deal with my order?” Issuing the second TRO in as many days in the case, Immergut called the Trump administration’s actions in apparent response to her first order “in direct contravention” of it.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 5d
Fed. judge grants the second motion for a TRO blocking Trump from sending California National Guard AND the National Guard from any other state or D.C for the reasons in her first TRO.

"I see those as direct contravention of the order I issued yesterday."
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 6d
Compelling opinion by Trump-appointed conservative judge, ruling Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard is illegal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 6d
This is what happens when you don’t vaccinate kids against measles. Whether it’s religious anti-vaxxerism in Israel or the secular kind in the U.S., the awful results are the same.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 6d
Six young children died, one facing amputation of limbs, all unvaccinated, all from measles.

Protect your children.
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11-Month-Old Charedi Baby Faces Amputation After Severe Measles Complications - Belaaz News
An 11-month-old infant from Beitar Illit, hospitalized at Hadassah Medical Center after contracting measles, is scheduled for surgery to amputate all four limbs due to necrosis, according to a Tuesday...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d
Dominik Lett of @cato.org rebuts the ridiculous catastrophizing with which the administration pretends that striking down Trump's tariffs would plunge the nation into fiscal ruin (aside, that is, from the slow-motion ruin already being effected by policies other than tariffs).
Revoking IEEPA Tariffs Will Not “Lead to Financial Ruin”
Tariffs likely don’t even cover the fiscal costs of Republicans’ flagship tax legislation, let alone meaningfully improve the broader fiscal picture.
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 6d
First lawsuit challenging Trump's $100,000 visa fee has been filed. It argues fee goes against statutes, and also runs afoul of major questions and nondelegation doctrines. I hope plaintiffs win. For more, see my analysis here: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Lawsuit Challenges Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
NA Yesterday, a broad coalition of groups filed the first lawsuit challenging President Trump's imposition of a $100,000 fee on…
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