On Friday, June 27th, the Supreme Court issued a 6–3 ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, siding with parents who wanted to opt their children out of lessons centered around LGBTQ books and characters. In its decision, the Supreme Court upheld the precedent set by Wisconsin...
On July 18, Landmark filed a brief in federal district court in National Education Association v. Department of Education, defending the Trump administration’s efforts to rid our schools of DEI programs. Landmark’s longtime adversary, the National Education...
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Yes! The President is within his constitutional authority to order isolated strikes on Iranian nuclear weapons production facilities without violating the War Powers Resolution. Background With the Trump administration’s strikes on Iran, a decades-old debate...
On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 (SB1), ruling that the state may lawfully prohibit medical procedures when the purpose of those procedures is to “[e]nable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported [gender] identity...
Background of Rodney King Riots: As images of burning cars and rioters clashing with police in Los Angeles occupy TV screens throughout the country, many Americans are beginning to feel a sense of déjà vu. On April 29, 1992, L.A. became the site of intense...
In a major victory for American business and individual rights, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of American firearms companies in Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos. The Court recognized that allowing Mexico’s lawsuit...
On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court halted a federal court’s order that prevented the Trump administration from revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan immigrants. What Is TPS? Temporary Protected Status is a humanitarian immigration status...
President Trump had a recent victory in his ongoing battle to assert control over the federal bureaucracy. On May 23, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed an order from the District Court for the District of Columbia that enjoined the President’s removal of a...
The debate over universal injunctions reached one of its highest points last week as the Supreme Court considered oral arguments in Trump v. CASA, Inc. (2025). There, the Trump administration challenged a lower court’s order prohibiting the...
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On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. CASA, Inc., a consolidation of three cases involving President Trump’s January 20, 2025, Executive Order ending birthright citizenship. While much of the media attention has focused on the...
We at Landmark are saddened to hear of the passing of retired United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter in his home state of New Hampshire. Justice Souter was nominated to the Court by President George H.W. Bush and served from 1990 until 2009. Justice Souter...
On April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case involving the religious liberty implications when public school students are compelled to participate in lessons on gender and sexuality that violate their religious beliefs....
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On Tuesday, April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Monsalvo Velázquez v. Bondi that when a deadline for voluntary departure or reopening a case falls on a weekend or holiday, the deadline extends to the next business day. While immigration has been at the...
On April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump Administration’s request to vacate the D.C. District Court’s Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) in the case J.G.G. v. Trump. This case was brought by five Venezuelan nationals detained for purported...
On the first day of his second term, President Trump signed several executive orders, addressing the immigration crisis at our southern border. Between 2018 and 2022, the United States saw an influx of over 44 million unauthorized immigrants, according to estimates by...
Last week, Landmark filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to hear Savejobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security. We are urging the Court to accept this case and reverse a lower court’s ruling permitting unelected federal bureaucrats at the Department of...
Landmark Legal Foundation (Landmark) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking agency records relating to billions in grants awarded to non-profit organizations at the end of the Biden administration. In...
Congress needs to act to ensure President Trump’s efforts to find and cut wasteful, fraudulent, and abusive spending are not in vain. Today the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision upholding a DC District Court ruling ordering the Trump...
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President Trump has continued to sign scores of executive orders since his inauguration over a month ago. These orders broadly set the policy of the executive branch and direct federal employees on how they are to work under the Trump...
On January 23, a federal district court in Seattle, WA granted a temporary restraining order to Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon to halt the enforcement of President Trump’s executive order titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American...
On the day of his inauguration, President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders to begin addressing the issues he campaigned on. In total, he signed nearly 50 executive orders, official appointments, and other presidential declarations. Executive orders...
The Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), also known as the “TikTok Ban,” does not violate the First Amendment. The Court’s decision will allow the ban...
On January 15, the Supreme Court announced its decision in the major employment law case E.M.D. Sales v. Carrera. The Court wrestled with the proper evidentiary standard employers must meet to prove that their employees are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards...
The apparently unending lawfare against President-Elect Trump appears to be nearing an end this week as Mr. Trump has requested the U.S. Supreme Court stay his sentencing in the highly publicized case, People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. In this...
Thanks to a recent decision by a Kansas District Court, the state is barred from enforcing a 2021 law that made it illegal to falsely represent oneself as an election official or create a false impression of being an election official. This law...
Landmark filed a merits brief in early December in Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, urging the Supreme Court to overturn a decision of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. (Earlier this year, we filed a brief in support of the...
On December 4, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for United States v. Skrmetti, which concerns Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 (SB1). The law bans medical interventions for minors, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapies, that facilitate gender...
Even on Election Day, it’s business as usual at the Supreme Court. On November 5, three of Landmark’s McDowell Fellows attended oral arguments in E.M.D. Sales v. Carrera. Attending these arguments was important because Landmark authored an amicus...
Landmark extends our sincere congratulations to President-elect Donald J. Trump on his victory in the 2024 Presidential Election. As this toughly fought election draws to a close, we are thankful to all those who worked so tirelessly to ensure the integrity of our...
This past weekend, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Virginia’s Democratic senatorial candidate Tim Kaine appeared on NBCUniversal’s (NBC) Saturday Night Live (SNL). Providing free airtime to Harris and Kaine and failing to provide equal...
On October 30, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed an order by a federal district court temporarily blocking Virginia from removing the names of over 1,600 self-identified noncitizens from the Commonwealth’s voter rolls. Virginia can now take reasonable and...
On October 18, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan released an appendix containing over 1800 pages of evidence that Special Counsel Jack Smith filed in the federal election interference case against Donald Trump. The appendix includes court transcriptions, social media...
In September of 2022, Landmark submitted a complaint to the Tax Exempt, Government Entities (TEGE) Division of the IRS alleging that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) does not follow tax laws and regulations because it does not disclose political expenditures...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an important case this term, Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, as Landmark had urged in an amicus brief filed this summer. Mexico sued American firearms manufacturers and distributors,...
On September 26th, Gavin Newsom signed a law prohibiting California cities from requiring valid ID to vote in municipal elections. This was done in response to a ballot initiative in Huntington Beach that passed in March and would have required residents to...
Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and President of the Harlan Institute, writes in Reason Magazine about the amicus brief in United States v. Trump, which was...
On Thursday, Senator Ron Wyden introduced a bill to expand the Supreme Court to 15 justices. Wyden’s bill would dramatically reshape the Court and diminish its capacity to serve as a check on the other two branches of government. This is the latest escalation in the...
Recently we have seen several important developments in the ongoing criminal cases in Georgia and New York against Donald Trump. On September 6, Judge Merchan of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the trial court for the case,* pushed back sentencing...
In July, Landmark filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to hear the Consumers’ Research challenge to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC” or “Commission”) and its structure. While the agency purports to be a nonpartisan body of experts, it is still part of...
Vice President Kamala Harris recently confirmed her support for most of President Biden’s 2025 budget proposal, a plan that includes nearly $5 trillion in tax increases over the next decade. The White House’s proposal focuses on tax increases...
By statute, Arizona requires prospective registrants to establish citizenship when using the state’s voter registration form. This helps ensure the integrity of the election process. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for voting. States should take...
Landmark Authors Brief On Behalf of National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors and International Foodservice Distributors Association In Supreme Court This week, Landmark’s attorneys authored a brief in E.M.D. Sales v. Carrera, a Supreme Court case that will...
The Andy Caldwell Show August 20, 2024 Title 9. +listen
On August 7th, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) issued Executive Order Number Thirty-Five, strengthening election security procedures in Virginia. The Executive Order focuses on three main points: ballot security, testing and certifying counting machines, and...
Mike O’Neill asks if Biden’s SCOTUS plan to stop the abuse of power a abuse of power itself
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Introduction On July 21, 2024, President Biden announced he will not seek reelection, and has instead directed his energy to fulfilling his duties as president through the remainder of his term.[1] While not historically unprecedented, Biden becomes the...
Yesterday, Landmark filed an amicus brief in a case called Consumers’ Research v. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Consumers’ Research is challenging the constitutionality of the CPSC’s structure. The CPSC was created in 1972 as an independent...
Read the full brief here.
The Bill Meyer Show July 16, 2024 Michael O’Neil discusses dismissal of Trump documents case +listen
Steve Gruber Show July 16, 2024 Michael O’Neill on Judge Cannon dismissing Trump’s case +listen
Read Mike O’Neill’s editorial on Supreme Court’s decision to revoke Chevron Doctrine
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