Good morning and welcome to another edition of Amicus: A Law Review with Jim Santelle. This week, federal courts were a battleground as judges confronted executive overreach, issuing injunctions to stop disruptive policies of the Trump Administration amid the federal government shutdown. In Rhode Island and Massachusetts, judges ordered the administration to release emergency SNAP funds, defying claims that reserves were untouchable.

And in Washington D.C., Jim takes a look at a case where a judge quashed a proof of citizenship mandate for voter registration. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a court blocked mass federal employee firings, while Chicago’s streets saw judicial action against ICE brutality. With the Supreme Court poised to rule on presidential tariff authority, Jim outlines that the judiciary stands as a bulwark against authoritarianism, even as controversial cases against James Comey and Letitia James unravel.

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