Commentaries by Narayana Rao Rampilla | US

The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Timothy Kelly blocking the executive exclusion of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO from the White House complex is being widely heralded as a triumphant vindication of the Free Press clause. In his 26-page opinion, Judge Kelly unmasked the state’s post-hoc national security justifications, finding that the blanket [...]

The US Supreme Court’s emergency 6-3 ruling reviving the Trump administration’s expanded use of the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to cross-reference voter registries represents an alarming new frontier in the erosion of American voting rights. While framed by the executive branch as neutral administrative upkeep, the structural reality of this decision [...]