Ilya Somin

n this post, I summarize key points from the Federal Circuit ruling against Trump's massive IEEPA tariffs, in our case against them: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

We just prevailed in our case against Trump's massive IEEPA tariffs, in the Federal Circuit! All challenged IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal, but scope of injunction TBD. Will have more to say later. Here is a link to the ruling (7-4 decision by en banc court): www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...

My Grokipedia page is far longer/more detailed than my Wikipedia page. I am flattered Grok thought me important enough for that. But it also has way more errors, even aside from overestimating my importance (e.g. - I was never a fellow at U of Michigan): grokipedia.com/page/Ilya_So...

In this post, I explain why fentanyl smuggling isn't moral equivalent of war/terrorism and can't justify Trump's extrajudicial killings.... and how on this point I'm in rare agreement with John Yoo: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Yamamoto pitched a great game tonight. But he may have just awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku...

Check out massive crop of amicus briefs supporting our side in Supreme Court tariff case, from groups across political spectrum, big and small businesses, and experts in many different fields: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

We filed our Supreme Court brief in the case against Trump's abusive and illegal tariffs: libertyjusticecenter.org/wp-content/u...

They wouldn’t do this if there was any real evidence these people are “narco-terrorists.”

My take on yesterday's 7th Circuit decision, and other rulings against Trump's abusive invocations of emergency powers to engage in domestic use of military: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

US Chamber of Commerce files lawsuit challenging Trump's illegal and harmful $100,000 H-1B visa fee. This is 2nd lawsuit challenging fee (first was filed by mostly left-liberal groups, including unions). Not every day Chamber of Commerce is on same side as major unions: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

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/...

My new paper on "How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom" (forthcoming in Lee Bollinger & Geoffrey Stone, eds., Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, Oxford Univ. Press): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....