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Ilya Somin

Ilya Somin is an American legal scholar. He is a law professor at George Mason University, B. Kenneth Simon Chair… more

Ilya Somin
H-index: 20
Political science 45%
Economics 24%

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Profs. Josh Braver & John Dehn (leading experts on legal issues involving domestic use of military) have @VolokhC guest post on why courts should NOT defer to Trump's invocations of emergency powers to use National Guard for domestic law enforcement: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Deference Due? Trump, the National Guard, and the Misuse of Martin v. Mott
President Donald Trump's attempts to federalize the National Guard and use it for domestic law enforcement are the subject…
reason.com

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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is a worthy Nobel Peace Prize winner, and certainly vastly more so than Trump. And, yes, I know there have been some extremely unworthy winners in the past (e.g. - Yasser Arafat). That doesn't justify repeating such errors.

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Thanks to @klasfeldreports.com , @omarjadwat.bsky.social , @ilyasomin.bsky.social and Andrew Schoenholtz for closing out our #ImmConf conference with a great final panel "Do the Courts Matter? The Trump Administration Tests the Limits of Immigration Law".

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But not within my areas of expertise.

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