
Jan Wolfe
Legal Affairs Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Journalist covering legal affairs at @WSJ. It's pronounced "Yan."
Articles
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6 days ago |
wsj.com | Jess Bravin |Jan Wolfe
In tariff case and others, courts are finding the president’s expansive view of executive authority clashes with decisions that limit its reachWASHINGTON—During the Biden administration, conservative challengers won Supreme Court victories that limited the president’s power to craft policy in matters from student-debt relief to air pollution. Now, those precedents are returning to haunt one of their greatest champions: President Trump.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Jan Wolfe |Alex Leary
Court pauses decision that invalidated president’s sweeping leviesA federal appeals court has temporarily put on hold a ruling that voided President Trump’s tariffs while it considers the administration’s challenge to the lower-court decision. In a brief order Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it was pausing Wednesday’s decision from the U.S. Court of International Trade until it can hear further legal arguments.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Matt Barnum |Jan Wolfe
The ruling, which the administration is expected to appeal, said the agency must reinstate employees who were firedA federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s wide-scale efforts to dismantle the Education Department, saying it effectively gutted the agency without Congress’s consent.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Victoria Albert |Jan Wolfe
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national, has been ordered freed while his case proceedsA federal judge in Virginia ordered the government to release from custody a Georgetown University academic and foreign national who was arrested in March, dealing another setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to deport people it says pose national-security threats. Badar Khan Suri, who was in the U.S. as a visiting scholar, was arrested at his home in Virginia.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Jan Wolfe |Jess Bravin
Paul Clement, a former star of the George W. Bush administration, adds conservative credibility for clients taking on the White HouseWASHINGTON—Clients in need of a star lawyer to battle the Trump administration are eagerly turning to one of the nation’s top Republican advocates: Paul Clement, who has secured landmark conservative victories for more than two decades. Clement, who served as U.S. solicitor general for President George W.
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