The Legality of Trump's Tariffs
Professor John Yoo joins Bloomberg Intelligence litigation analyst Holly Froum to discuss May rulings by the US Court of International Trade and Washington, DC district court striking down so called "fentanyl trafficking" and reciprocal tariffs. Professor Yoo, who served as law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute, a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Civil Leadership at University of Texas Austin, and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the rulings, what he thinks the lower courts got wrong, arguments on appeal and why reciprocal tariffs could be vulnerable on appeal.
Constitutionalism

Epstein & Yoo: Amicus Brief in Supreme Court of Maryland
Civitas Senior Research Fellows Richard Epstein and John Yoo, alongside the Mountain States Legal Foundation, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Maryland.
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Religious Exemptions?: What the Free Exercise Clause Means
A conversation among three religious liberty scholars on the Free Exercise Clause’s original meaning.

The American Revolutions of 1776
America's founding was animated by both the spirit of liberty and the spirit of religion — a philosophical and practical achievement worth understanding and attempting to recover today.

Making Sense of the Court's Establishment Clause Doctrine
Chapman and McConnell acknowledge the judicial excesses of older caselaw and orient the doctrine toward a collection of historically sensitive second-best arrangements looking forward.

Civitas Conversations: Is the Court Appeasing the Trump Administration?
A Conversation with Jonathan Adler about judicial overreach v. judicial limits.

