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RE: IMMIGRATION AND BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
The U.S. Constitution provides “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States ….”[1] In his effort to deport as many immigrants as he possibly can, President Trump has contended that the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” exclude from citizenship children born Continue reading
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RE: Freedom of Speech
The State of Colorado has a statute that prohibits licensed mental health professionals, including psychiatrists and psychologists, from offering “conversion therapy” to minors, some of whom may be seeking it. Colo. Rev. Stat. §12-245-224(1)(t)(v). The broader statute defines “conversion therapy” as any “treatment,” including verbal counseling, which seeks to change the patient’s self-professed sexual identity Continue reading
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RE: THE WAR POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT
President Trump seems determined to go to war with Venezuela without affirmative Congressional assent. Although the United States Supreme Court has never ruled on the issue, I believe the United States Constitution prohibits the President’s militaristic orders against that country and its people without Congressional approval. Article I of the Constitution contains the following provisions: Continue reading
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RE: THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
On June 26, 2008, the United States Supreme Court answered the prayers of many Americans, perhaps even a majority, who wanted increased Constitutional protection against gun control legislation. On that day, the Court solemnly declared, for the first time in American history, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited legislation that interfered Continue reading
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RE: THE PRESIDENT’S IMMUNITY
On January 6, 2021, hundreds if not thousands of protestors violently invaded the United States Capitol building in violation of the law, in an effort to prevent Congress from counting Electoral Votes cast in 2020 Presidential Election, and from certifying the winner of that election. Since then, substantial evidence has emerged indicating that then-President Donald Continue reading
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TRUMP’S ILLEGAL TARIFFS, PART 3
During the last six months of 1971, President Richard Nixon imposed roughly a ten percent surcharge, subject to an absolute maximum tax, all payable to the federal government, upon most goods imported into the United States from foreign countries. In 1975, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals upheld the legality of that Continue reading
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RE: TRUMP’S TARIFFS
In the arguments before the United States Supreme Court last Wednesday, counsel for President Trump defended the tariffs the President imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (the IEEPA) on the ground that statute did authorize the Presidential imposition of tariffs whenever a ‘‘national emergency’’ is declared by the President himself. (Citing 50 U.S.C. Continue reading
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RE: TRUMP’S ILLEGAL TARIFFS
President Trump has now filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court, in which he basically argues that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (the “IEEPA”), 50 United States Code at Sections 1701 et. seq., fully authorizes him to declare that an “emergency” exists with origins in a foreign country, and then to impose Continue reading
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RE: ICE Raids
In conducting raids against “illegal” immigrants, the federal government has admitted that its policy is to authorize the arrest, without a warrant, of “immigrants” reasonably suspected of being “illegal immigrants,” based upon 1) their “apparent ethnicity”, 2) the language they speak, 3)the accent they speak it with, and 4) their presence in a location commonly Continue reading
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RE: Trump’s Tariffs
Early into his second term, President Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“the IEEPA”), 50 United States Code Sections 1701 et.seq., to impose taxes on goods imported into the United States from other countries, i.e., tariffs. Last Friday, August 29, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, declared those Continue reading
CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS 