Constitutional Law
Oct. 16, 2025
Federal judges are just saying no to Trump
Federal courts are increasingly pushing back against former President Trump's expansive claims of executive power, striking down his tariffs, military deployments, immigration actions and funding freezes -- underscoring the judiciary's role as a crucial check on presidential overreach.
William Rothbard
Email: Rothbard@FTCAdLaw.com
William Rothbard also represents clients in federal and state deceptive advertising investigations and enforcement actions as well as consumer class actions and has litigated and settled scores of matters. He provides advertising-related transactional services, including contracts, trademarks, sweepstakes and contests. Bill writes and speaks often on advertising and marketing law topics. He has served as the Editor of Competition, an antitrust and trade regulation journal published by the California State Bar Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section, and is the author of the legal blog, FTCAdLaw Alert, which can be found on his firm website. He has served as an advertising law expert in FTC-related cases and serves as an expert within his field in the global expert consulting network of the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG). Prior to entering private practice, Bill was an attorney with the FTC, holding positions as an advertising enforcement attorney, Deputy Assistant Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, and Attorney-Advisor to the FTC Chairman. He also served as Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights. He is a graduate of UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings College of Law) and The University of Michigan. In his civic life, Bill is a past Chair of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, past President of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, former Board Member of Bet Tzedek Legal Services, and a former candidate for the California Assembly.
Donald Trump, citing his "crime-busting" military takeover of Washington, D.C. and moves to do the same in other Democrat-run cities, said, "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the President of the United States." The compliant Republican-led Congress seems to agree, having ceded core constitutional powers over such things as tariffs and control of the purse to the president. And in a string of victories for Trump in matters testing his authority, the Supreme Co...
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