Philip Rotner

November 9, 2026

To Rein in Trump, Pass a ‘No Kings Act’

DEMOCRATS HAVE SIGNALED a broad legislative agenda to turn their stunning midterm victory into policy and law. Minority Leader Hakeem…

August 6, 2026

IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE WANDERING THROUGH HELL and you come across an inert beast called “Trump’s Slush Fund for…

November 18, 2025

Donald Trump’s “sudden reversal” on the so-called “Epstein Files Transparency Act” may signal that his hold on his MAGA base…

September 17, 2025

There oughta be a law. Seriously, there ought to be a law. Because the ones we have are not up…

July 14, 2025

ON MONDAY, THE SUPREME COURT issued, without explanation, an order that permits, at least for the time being, the Trump administration to…

July 14, 2025

AS IT CLOSES OUT ITS TERM, the Supreme Court is continuing to find ways to let Donald Trump do whatever…

July 14, 2025

A HOST OF NERVOUS INDIVIDUALS—including President Donald J. Trump—must have breathed a sigh of relief over the weekend when the…

July 30, 2024

Last week, the United States government indicted Sue Mi Terry, widely recognized as “one of the world’s foremost authorities on…

July 4, 2024

BETWEEN THE EXTREME PARTS of the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States (the insane hypothetical “Can the president order Seal…

June 24, 2024

While the Supreme Court is in the course of deciding a raft of monumentally consequential cases dealing with such things…