Ben Coryell, owner of Golden Mountain Guides in Colorado, is concerned about how long his business can continue to offer climbing courses and mountaineering expeditions.
The U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay has been staffed with 1,000 government workers, 900 of them members of the U.S. military and the rest immigration service agents or contractors. About 400 migrants have been held there over two months.
The firms signed a legal brief supporting Perkins Coie, calling the president’s actions a threat “to the rule of law.” The largest firms declined to sign.
President Trump’s administration has undercut the power of the Office of Legal Counsel, speeding up Mr. Trump’s ability to act but creating mounting difficulties for Justice Department lawyers.
The Office of Legal Counsel issues opinions that are supposed to bind the executive branch. The Trump administration has taken steps and made claims in tension with several of them.
A nonprofit group said the president misapplied a law in imposing those levies and portrayed its filing as the first lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration over its tariffs.
The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy. When declared by a sitting president, it is a provocation.