(NA) Today, twelve blue and purple states, led by the state of Oregon, filed a lawsuit in the US Court of International Trade challenging Donald Trump’s massive IEEPA tariffs. Their complaint is available here. The arguments advanced by the multistate plaintiffs are similar to those presented in the lawsuit the Liberty Justice Center and I presented in a similar lawsuit filed on behalf of five US businesses severely harmed by the tariffs (also filed in the CIT). They […]
This is prompted by a post from earlier today, which highlighted public schools’ conflation of intelligence with compliance. Most schooling primes people for intellectual so-called property. Copying a neighbor’s or a classmate’s work in school can get a student in trouble because students are working for an accurate evaluation of their capacity by an authority. Students graduate and retain a prejudice against “cheating” which expresses itself in support for an authority that punishes those who “steal” ideas. Do […]
Andrew Gillen President Trump signed an executive order concerning accreditation in higher education yesterday that could be a game-changer. For those of you who’ve never heard of accreditation, it is the quality assurance mechanism used to (attempt to) safeguard taxpayer funding in higher education. If a university wants its students to be able to receive Pell Grants or take out student loans, then it must get the approval of an accreditor. Accreditors themselves are quasi-private entities that evaluate […]
Tweet “Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal.” A slice: The Trump rout is taking on historic dimensions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed almost 1,000 points on Monday and is headed for its worst April performance since 1932, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The S&P 500’s performance since Inauguration Day is now the worst for any president up to this point in data going back to 1928, according to Bespoke […]
O advogado Sebastião Coelho deixou a defesa de Filipe Martins. Desembargador aposentado, Coelho atuava na linha de frente do processo que envolve o ex-assessor da Presidência para Assuntos Internacionais. Coelho anunciou o ato nas redes sociais, na quarta-feira 23. De acordo com o desembargador, por ser advogado de Martins, suas críticas ao governo Lula e ao Supremo Tribunal Federal acabam limitadas. Oeste apurou que outro motivo da saída tem a ver com problema de saúde. Leia também: “Órfãos […]
President Donald Trump and his administration continued to assault the concept of due process this week, with Trump claiming that undocumented immigrants shouldn’t be entitled to appearances before judges prior to deportation. “I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because we have thousands of people that are ready to go out and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “It wasn’t meant. The system wasn’t meant. […]
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