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Ilya Somin is an American legal scholar. He is a law professor at George Mason University, B. Kenneth Simon Chair… more

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Six young children died, one facing amputation of limbs, all unvaccinated, all from measles.

Protect your children.
belaaz.com/news/11-mont...
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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Yesterday, Supreme Court decided to hear another home equity theft takings case, Pung v. Isabella County. Property owner should win, because govt failed to pay fair market value compensation, as required by the Takings Clause! See my analysis here: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
The Supreme Court Will Hear Another Home Equity Theft Takings Case
Illustration: Lex Villena; Oblachko In Tyler v. Hennepin County (2023), a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that "home equity theft"…
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2) 2) See also my 2023 post addressing various possible objections: reason.com/volokh/2023/...
Fund Ukraine's War Effort by Confiscating Russian Government Assets
The $300 billion in frozen Russian state assets in Western nations could fund a large part of Ukraine's defense.
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1) European nations are once again considering using hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen Russian state assets to aid Ukraine. This step is long overdue: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
European Nations Again Consider Using Frozen Russian State Assets to Fund Ukraine's War Effort
Over $300 billion in Russian state assets are frozen in the West. It's long past time they were used to help Ukraine resist Vladimir Putin's war of aggression..
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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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