During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of PBS’s “Firing Line,” U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar defended his philosophy of original public meaning originalism and noted that people who advocate against originalism and believe the
President Joe Biden’s plan to give racial reparations to black farmers suffered another legal blow Thursday when a federal judge ruled that part of his coronavirus law violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has granted Tennessee’s request for the full court to hear arguments in its appeal regarding a 2015 informed consent law requiring a woman to wait 48 hours prior to having an abortion.
The Sixth Circuit federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, violated a professor’s First Amendment rights by ordering him to use students’ preferred pronouns.
President Donald Trump’s impact on the federal judiciary was recently on display when three judges he appointed to one federal appeals court quoted a fourth Trump judge on another court, rejecting arguments that courts should defer to federal authorities on how to interpret immigration laws.
The Supreme Court on Monday took a case that could overrule Auer deference, a doctrine under which courts defer to federal agencies regarding the scope of their regulatory power, a case with major implications for the powers of the federal government.
Two Trump-appointed minority judges in their forties—Amul Thapar and James Ho—are joining Trump Supreme Court justices in questioning two major legal doctrines that give vast powers to federal agencies, possibly heralding that President Donald Trump could build a judicial majority that scales back the administrative state.
