Category: Uncategorized

  • This is the latest thing

    Wondering how to navigate WordPress? Me too. Sometimes when you add a post, you get an interface that looks like business software, with form fields to fill out. This time, it looks more like a blank web page to just write and design on. Which is which, and how do…

  • We need lawyers to step up and claim rights on tariffs

    Comment posted to WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/05/supreme-court-trump-tariffs-immigration-economy/ Especially with the President and the Courts acting the way they are, we need our lawyers to put the best arguments in front of the Courts. The tariffs-by-executive-decree case raises big questions about taxpayer rights, and about so-called emergency declarations. Customs is literally collecting…

  • Brief description of Trump’s actions and legal argument

    AS we all know, this year, Pres. Trump issued a series of executive orders that impose a variety of punitive tariffs on imports from dozens of countries around the world. He has raised tariffs, lowered them again, set activation dates, changed those dates. At various times he President cites IEEPA…

  • How English laws and rights are in effect in the United States

    One of the bigger surprises in my personal study of constitutional law was to discover the role of English law, and English Common Law, in American law. In my ignorance I only thought of common law in terms of “common law marriage.” And in many arguments and discussions of constitutional…