SUNDAYS AT JASA SPRING 2026 SEMESTER

The Supreme Court: When Law and Politics Collide
Mondays at 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. 
Virtual Class on Zoom Beginning March 9
Instructor: Leora Harpaz
Email - lharpaz@lharpaz.com

Course Description:
This course will examine the Supreme Court’s recent actions in areas of political significance. During the 2025-26 Supreme Court Term, those cases include subjects including transgender rights, tariffs, the scope of presidential power over independent administrative agencies, & possibly birthright citizenship. Other important cases before the Court involve redistricting, election financing, and gun rights. In addition to cases on the Court’s regular docket, the Court has decided many cases that came to the Court as emergency applications - these cases will also be discussed, as will any major cases added to the docket during the 2026-27 Term.

Class 1 - March 9, 2026

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act - IEEPA

50 U.S. Code § 1701
(a) Any authority granted to the President by section 1702 of this title may be exercised to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.


50 U.S. Code § 1702
The President may:
(B) . . . regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States;

The Selective Words relied on by the Justice Department in its argument which ignores all the words in between:

the president may . . . REGULATE, direct & compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit), any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, IMPORTATION or exportation OF, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any PROPERTY IN WHICH ANY FOREIGN COUNTRY OR A NATIONAL THEREOF HAS ANY INTEREST by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.