Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."

This month, the Supreme Court set oral argument to hear the legal challenges to President Trump's IEEPA tariffs for the first week of November. @joshuaclaybourn.bsky.social examines the legal obligation of the U.S. government to refund tariffs collected, if SCOTUS finds them to be unlawful.

On Feb 27, 1933, fire consumed Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag. The Nazis blamed communists and warned of a revolution. Exploiting fear, Adolf Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties and allowed arrests without trial.

As we celebrate #Juneteenth today, take a moment to check out this exhibit from the National Archives that explores the connection between the Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth. visit.archives.gov/whats-on/exp...

Today the NY Times provides an excellent profile on the biggest separation of powers issue in several generations and our influential brief in the litigation.

Trump administration lawyers are arguing that the Library of Congress doesn’t belong to Congress — the latest move to erase the traditional lines that separate the branches of government.

My latest op-ed in the NYT.

Knicks vs. Hicks: Let Us Praise Old-Fashioned Contempt www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

Bipartisan group of prominent legal scholars & former govt officials file amicus brief supporting Liberty Justice Center and my case challenging Trump's tariffs. Steve Calabresi (Federalist Society co-founder), Richard Epstein, Harold Koh, and many more: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

I’m proud to have organized and co-authored this amici brief.

Today Harvard Is the Target. Tomorrow It Could Be Your Church. Or Wikipedia:

Today Harvard Is the Target. Tomorrow It Could Be Your Church. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/o...

“If the executive branch can threaten Wikipedia and universities today, what would stop a leftist administration from targeting churches and synagogues tomorrow?” writes Joshua Claybourn.

I organized a broad coalition of leaders—including former U.S. Senators, retired federal judges, a retired U.S. Attorney General, and preeminent constitutional scholars—in filing an amici brief supporting a lawsuit challenging Trump's tariffs. 🧵

Claybourn: Lincoln and the limits of the executive www.courierpress.com/story/opinio...

New from me at Cato: a new Trump White House memorandum exposes lawyers who oppose the federal government in court to crippling sanctions to be decided on by the feds themselves, not by courts. And few law firms have protested. The hour grows late for a basic element of constitutional liberty. /1

bsky.app/profile/ala1... A great new follow!

Republicans snuck a provision into the rule for the CR that would preemptively surrender congressional authority to block tariffs. When House Republicans vote for this rule today, they will also be voting to support Trump's tariffs and all the resulting damage to the US economy

When I first studied economics I wondered why people didn't march in the streets for free trade, it was such a good cause. There's still time.

The Fulbright program is required by law. It’s literally named after the senator that passed the bill.

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

For those of you following Trump's tariffs, I've created a tariff tracker for Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) that tracks their usage, statutory authority, timeline, and scope...hope this can be a resource (and of course let me know if I've missed anything or gotten anything wrong!)

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

The Imperial Presidency open.substack.com/pub/joshuacl...

Nifty Jimmy Carter story: A reporter asks Carter if he ever looked into Roswell Incident and his answer is a story about the CIA successfully using mediums. 😲 h/t Joshua Claybourn

Today marks the anniversary of Lincoln rescinding U.S. Grant's Gen. Order No. 11, which expelled all Jewish people from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. A thread 🧵...

Trump's inauguration ceremony will be held indoors in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda due to dangerously cold temperatures. It’s set to be 24 degrees in Washington on Monday with a wind chill of 6-10 degrees. The last president to be sworn in indoors was President Reagan in 1985.

They’ve begun building the stage for Trump in the Capitol rotunda, shortly after announcing that his inauguration will be moved indoors on Monday.