Andrew C. McCarthy

American law enforcement is supposed to be both energetic and fair.

In ruling the department may not revive the case, Ho called it ‘unprecedented and breathtaking’ to use the dismissal of charges as leverage for help on immigration policy.

It has to be opposed.

The administration should abandon its Alien Enemy Act theory and shift to the solid ground of federal immigration laws.

Essentially, Yunseo Chung is free while Mahmoud Khalil is detained because she beat the government to the courthouse.

Trump is out on this limb because the legislative branch is AWOL.

The department cannot afford to lose credibility, with so much on the line.

In the case of the Venezuelans, the DOJ is resisting the kind of meticulous review that it provided in Mahmoud Khalil’s case.

The president’s legal position that he can proceed with no input from Congress or judicial review is on shaky ground.

The administration is materially weakening its litigating position in the standoff over Venezuelan nationals.

The president’s EO is nothing less than a bill of attainder, and a deep constitutional wrong.

The latest chapter provides more hurdles for both Trump’s top-down and bottom-up efforts to bring the federal bureaucracy to heel.

Yes, President Trump can fire, and has fired, Hampton Dellinger.

The big argument is only just beginning.

This is an important test case for the administration.

These programs have to be undone the same way they were created.

A small but important victory for the president.

Yes, Ukraine’s president performed incompetently, but he is not the reason for Friday’s debacle.

She got the first big thing right: protecting our technology industry and all Americans from the Luddite demands of Britain’s Labour government.

Is this righteous indignation or shrewd choreography?

Psst — there is no administrator of DOGE. There is Elon Musk.

Yet by making clear that Musk’s power is limited, it could help DOGE in court.

The conflict of interest of its members could not be any clearer.

Judge Dale Ho has adopted the Michael Flynn model in navigating this case. I am wary.

This was a qualified victory for Trump, to say the least.

What authority, if any, does the court have to force the Justice Department’s hand?

At issue is Trump’s firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel.

The Adams case is not the only one that will bring the foolishness of this directive into sharp relief.

So much for getting politics out of law enforcement.

Despite the tone of media coverage, all these judges have done, for now, is raise important questions.