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Trump won’t be pleased with the Fed chair’s announcement, but the president has no one to blame but himself for the developments. Source link

The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. Last week, for the first time in the modern era, the government argued to the Supreme Court of the United States that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution did not outlaw general warrants. General warrants were issued in the colonial era by a secret court in London. They were not based on probable cause…

The Brits are bothered, as usual. President Donald Trump has registered his displeasure at Prime Minister Keir Starmer for failing to join the Iran War with the proper gung-ho spirit, and the latest instantiation of this is reportedly a Pentagon proposal to back Argentine claims to the Falkland Islands. The response (including this one in The American Conservative’s pages from the admirable Iain Macwhirter) has been indignation and a great deal of fretting about “the special relationship.” One might reasonably ask where they’ve been for the past 80 years. Americans are perfectly happy to let the Brits borrow our nuclear…

As Iranians marked the failure of the U.S. military to defeat their country and indeed celebrated a perceived victory, Iran’s parliamentary speaker and head of the negotiating team, Mohammad Ghalibaf, insisted that “we are not stronger than the United States in military power.” Ghalibaf suggested Iran shouldn’t expect to “destroy” the enemy, but instead should translate its battlefield gains into diplomatic leverage. U.S. officials have shown less humility. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. military has “beaten and completely decimated Iran” and that the war was a “total and complete victory.” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the…

Greetings and welcome to the latest edition of the Injustice System newsletter. The U.S. Supreme Court issued not one but two significant decisions yesterday. Let’s take them in turn. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. In Louisiana v. Callais, a 6–3 Court, divided along partisan lines, invalidated a majority-black congressional district as an illegal gerrymander that unconstitutionally sorted voters by race. The dispute originated in 2022 when a group of voters challenged a new Louisiana congressional map, arguing that it violated the Voting Rights Act’s prohibition…

The oysterman outlasted the governor, and doesn’t plan to switch strategies for the general election. Source link

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided Callais. The last paragraph of the opinion stated: The judgment of the District Court is affirmed, and thesecases are remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion. It is so ordered. Well, it is not ordered right away. Under the Court’s rules, the remand does not happen immediately. In this 2020 post, I described the process by which judgments are actually entered. Conflicts over the timing of the judgments have arisen in high profile cases, including Bush v. Gore, Boumediene, Trump v. Vance, Trump v. Mazars, DHS v. Regents, Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, and others. Of course, after…

It’s getting pretty hard to tell who is more delusional: The Donald or the noisy boy band of school-yard incompetents that surround him. Either way, it’s not surprising that Trump posted this missive earlier today. He apparently actually thinks that his cockamamie Iranian War, which is on the edge of stalemate or actually being lost, is nearly all over except for the shouting. Of course, it’s no mystery as to where the Donald is getting his utterly misplaced optimism. To wit, almost every POTUS of modern times – financially challenged or solid in his own right – has had a…