The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control. People are likely to get hurt. Four and a half months after his inauguration, Donald Trump is exercising his authoritarian chops, targeting immigrants in the state he most despises — California. Making good on Trump’s nativist pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, agents from Immigration… Read more »
Suspending the right to challenge the legality of one’s detention in court would shred a core tenet of the Constitution. If White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is to be believed, Team Trump is poised to drive another stake through the heart of the Constitution. On May 9, Miller told reporters that the administration is… Read more »
As a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, Hungary is obliged to arrest suspected war criminals and send them to The Hague. In a shameless attempt to undermine international accountability for accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian President Viktor Orbán graciously hosted the architect of Israel’s 18-month genocide in Gaza on April… Read more »
The US government is weaponizing antisemitism as an excuse to kidnap and deport even lawful permanent residents. A federal judge in New Jersey will soon issue a ruling on where the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student who led the student encampment at Columbia University last year, can be litigated. On March 8,… Read more »
Under the guise of his “war on drugs,” the former president of the Philippines murdered political opponents. Activists in the Philippines say the stunning arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for a crime against humanity marks a major step toward accountability for the thousands of… Read more »
Trump is making real the words of OMB director Russell Vought, who said “we are living in a post-Constitutional time.” No sooner did Donald Trump take the oath of office than he immediately took a wrecking ball to government agencies and programs that protect nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives. States, public interest organizations, schools,… Read more »
Unlawful deportation or transfer of a population constitutes both a war crime and a crime against humanity. Donald Trump’s outrageous plan to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza, assume U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and make it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” reveals his intent to commit a war crime and a… Read more »
Executive orders Trump issued in his first days in office violate both the Constitution and several US laws. Pandering to his nativist base, Donald Trump made the central pledge of his 2024 presidential campaign a threat to “carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” On January 20, 2025, he began to fulfill that promise…. Read more »
Trump’s appeal will decide how the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling applies to his hush money case. Donald Trump has always maintained that the laws don’t apply to him. But he failed to convince New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to delay sentencing him this month following the May 2024 jury verdict finding him… Read more »
Trump is claiming total executive power that would eclipse the legislative “co-equal” branch of government. In the weeks since the presidential election, president-elect Donald Trump and his allies have made a series of moves that indicate their intent to dangerously consolidate executive power under the controversial “unitary executive” theory of the Constitution. During the presidential… Read more »