"one of Donald Trump's key goals is the creation of a national police force that is loyal to him alone. To that end, the president has repeatedly federalized the National Guard-often over governors' objections-and deployed troops to invade blue cities whose residents oppose his administration. He has also transformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a kind of secret police that targets, with especially sadistic brutality, journalists, protesters, and others exercising their First Amendment rights."
"A growing number of lower courts are aggressively pushing back against Trump's brazen distortion of the constitutional order. But will it be enough to stop him? On this week's Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed a spate of rulings that balk at the administration's consolidation of law enforcement around the president's political vendettas."
Donald Trump seeks to create a national police force loyal solely to him and has federalized the National Guard and deployed troops to cities that oppose his administration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been repurposed into a force that targets journalists, protesters, and others exercising First Amendment rights with brutal tactics. These actions erode structural limits on executive authority and create a feedback loop of lawlessness in which unchecked power suppresses dissent. A growing number of lower courts have issued rulings to block or constrain such federal actions, including a temporary restraining order halting National Guard federalization in Illinois.
Read at Slate Magazine
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]