This is the Week That Was

This is the Week That Was

The other day White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller declared the “Democrat party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.” Just a day earlier Donald Trump directed the pentagon to establish specialized National Guard units to quell...
A Tyrant is Trying to Scare Us

A Tyrant is Trying to Scare Us

Sometimes I hear from ordinary people who wish to do something about the multiplying threats to freedom and democracy that we face under the growing Trump tyranny, but fear that their activism may cost them dearly. Our country is on the road to a fascist state and the...
The Constitution Promises Rights to Immigrants—Within Limits

The Constitution Promises Rights to Immigrants—Within Limits

Imagine one Maria Torres—a mother of three and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. On a quiet morning in Phoenix federal agents knock on her door. She isn’t under investigation. She has never committed a crime. But when her 12-year-old son asks, “Do we...
The Theater of Cruelty

The Theater of Cruelty

On a sweltering July afternoon in the Florida Everglades, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Kristi Noem stood before a newly constructed immigration detention center newly built with cages and tents in a remote Everglades location where the heat and mosquitos kill as...
Justice by Geography: How Chaos Now Reigns Supreme

Justice by Geography: How Chaos Now Reigns Supreme

Over the course of his presidency and beyond, Donald Trump has tested the limits of federal power through executive orders, agency maneuvers, and constitutional brinkmanship. In the district and appellate courts, the legal response has been swift and withering:...