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:...
When Democracies Choose to Die

When Democracies Choose to Die

  In 1814, John Adams issued a warning that sounds today like the tolling of a distant but familiar bell: “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” It was not...