If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

When Schumer was Majority Leader, GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville single-handedly blocked military promotions, leaving important roles vacant, by denying unanimous consent.

So were you weakly letting him hurt the country then, or are you weakly declining to do something similar to help the country now?

The more I think about it, the stronger the sense that, when historians look back at what’s happening now, the J6 pardons and removal of security details of key individuals will loom very large. This is the moment where Trump consolidated the threat of unpunished violence against opponents.

Question for all those Stop-The-Steal believers— how do you explain the 2024 election results, which happened under a Democratic presidency?

I wrote this exactly 8 years ago in response to a @washingtonpost piece on my colleague Kathy Cramer's excellent work & important articles from Art Goldhammer &
@jamellebouie.net, on precisely the problems we're still dealing with now. I think it holds up well, but I still have no good answers.