"Lawful but awful."

Trump's mobilization of the National Guard (and active-duty Marines) in L.A. is unprecedented, but not necessarily unlawful.

But is the president helping put out a fire – or pouring on gasoline?

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“You know the government is going to ship your client out.”

While neither unlawful nor unprecedented, the Trump admin's rapid relocation of immigrant detainees is a ramp-up of a familiar tactic and a possible a preview of the future.

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Three stops in 24 hours. Virginia, to Louisiana, to Texas in four days. A spike in sudden transfers to a detention center in north Texas--including one apparently violating a court order.

A look at the geography of Trump deportations: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/...

Poignant grafs at the start of this @cameronjoseph.bsky.social interview with Ben Crump, the lawyer for George Floyd's family, on the five-year anniversary of his death.

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Lawyers at white-shoe law firms aren't the most sympathetic targets of Donald Trump's ire.

But a fearful, compliant legal industry could open the door to more serious abuses of rights and freedoms.

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Trump's broad assertions of presidential power will soon reach a Supreme Court filled with justices who spent years in the executive branch.

"They come with a probably unavoidable impulse to give more weight to interests they find familiar or recognizable."

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As judges say ‘stop,’ the question is whether Trump will comply.

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"This may be the strangest year in the history of the pardon power."

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The Biden presidency may be remembered as the time Democrats got "ruthless" on judicial appointments.

It helped fulfill a campaign promise -- the most diverse slate of new judges in history -- but it may come at a longer term cost.

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