Trump Is Hopelessly Confused On Trade

Trump Is Hopelessly Confused On Trade

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Tweet Here’s a note to a new correspondent: Mr. W__: Thanks for your e-mail. You write that “President Trump can be forgiven for thinking American trade deficits with Mexico and with Canada are signs of them taking advantage of us.  He’s a business man and no business man wants to see his company spending more than it earns.  I see where he’s coming from.” With respect, I disagree. Trump’s business background arguably explains his hostility to U.S. trade […]

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Trump's Dramatic Crossroads Between Protectionism and Dynamism

Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads Between Protectionism and Dynamism

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A popular meme depicts a road diverging. In one direction is a many-towered palace glistening in the sunshine. In the other is a crumbling castle beset by storm clouds and eerie purple lightning. The point of the image, known as “Dramatic Crossroads,” is not hard to apprehend: A single starting point can lead to very different outcomes depending on the path one chooses. At the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, two unusually distinct possibilities await, and […]

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Where Did All the Summary Reversals Go?

Where Did All the Summary Reversals Go?

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The Supreme Court summarily reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Andrew v. White. Such summary reversals used to be somewhat commonplace. (Indeed, as I’ve chronicled on this blog, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit used to get summarily reversed with some frequency in habeas cases.) Yet as Adam Liptak notes in the New York Times, summary reversals are less common than they used to be. During the first fifteen years of the […]

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Briefing Ordered Unsealed in N.J. Case Involving Gag Order on Jewish Woman Who Claimed Her Husband Denied Her Jewish Divorce

Briefing Ordered Unsealed in N.J. Case Involving Gag Order on Jewish Woman Who Claimed Her Husband Denied Her Jewish Divorce

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Back in 2023, I blogged about S.B.B. v. L.B.B., a New Jersey intermediate appellate court case: [T]he plaintiff husband and defendant wife were getting divorced, and the wife claimed that the husband wasn’t giving her a Jewish religious divorce. (The husband “denied withholding the get, claimed he had given the get to the Chief Rabbi of Elizabeth in June 2020.”) To quote the court, In the Orthodox Jewish tradition, a married woman cannot obtain a religious divorce until […]

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