The Trump administration should throw its plan to temporarily schedule 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) into the trash.Not revise the threshold. Not negotiate over whether the government should allow one milligram, five milligrams or some other politically acceptable number. The entire premise is backwards. The federal government is preparing to use extraordinary emergency powers to place widely used […]
The Trump administration should throw its plan to temporarily schedule 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) into the trash. Not revise the threshold. Not negotiate over whether the government should allow one milligram, five milligrams or some other politically acceptable number. The entire premise is backwards. The federal government is preparing to use extraordinary emergency powers to place widely used products into Schedule I before establishing the science necessary to justify doing so. Under the Controlled Substances Act, temporary scheduling is reserved for circumstances in which action is “necessary to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety.” Yet HHS has just reopened the public comment period for another 15 days, acknowledging it…Open
For President Trump, they were hardly fireworks. But for a moment, the chief executive forced the four Supreme Court justices who showed up to his State of the Union to be stone-faced in front of millions of Americans as he railed against them and their decision striking down his global tariffs. “The Supreme Court’s unfortunate involvement,” Trump called their majority decision to strike down a bulk of his tariffs by ruling his use of emergency powers to impose those duties as unlawful. It marked the most direct call-out of the court at the address in years. Still, it hardly ranked among the president’s most scorching burns. The Hill's Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee explore all of that and more in The Gavel, their newsletter covering…
Published February 20, 2025 In a major Supreme Court decision this week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s use of emergency authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose [...]
Assembly Bill 1835, introduced by Assemblymember James Gallagher, R-Chico, would limit a state of emergency that a governor can declare to 90 days, unless the Legislature votes to extend it.
AI:In this opinion piece, Adam Turner argues that invoking the Insurrection Act is neither historically unprecedented nor inherently dangerous, contending that the law provides a necessary legal mechanism for addressing domestic unrest.Open
