The inquiry into the Federal Reserve chair sends a message to anyone standing in Trump’s way – including the supreme court
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Trump is marching into 2026 with the worst cabinet in history | Austin Sarat ⊖⊖
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From RFK Jr to Pete Hegseth, the president’s top aides have been disastrous. We shouldn’t be surprised
As 2024 ended and Donald Trump’s cabinet picks were rolled out, commentators scrambled to decide …
74 days ago
Trump’s approach to Venezuela repeats the mistakes of the past | Austin Sarat ⊖
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Congress must work to stop the president from leading us further into a South American quagmire
Donald Trump seems determined to have a military confrontation with Venezuela. He has deployed a massive…
3 months ago
How repression is born – and how to resist it | Javier Corrales and Daniel Altschuler ⊖
In a clear pattern, a machine designed to generate law and order morphs into an organization operating under lawlessness
We have entered the openly repressive phase of the Trump presidency. The admini…
4 months ago
James Comey’s real ‘crime’? Daring to put the law before loyalty to Trump | Lawrence Douglas ⊖
The former FBI director prioritized fidelity to his office. The case against him is flimsy – but that’s cold comfort
In 1931, an exceptionally talented young Berlin attorney named Hans Litten summoned…
5 months ago
When even Ben & Jerry’s can’t speak out, it’s clear: the era of corporate responsibility is over | Austin Sarat ○
Jerry himself has left the ice-cream company, alleging it had been silenced. He’s yet another casualty of corporate kowtowing
When the history of this era is written, there will be much to say about t…
Trump’s death-penalty pledge for Washington DC is ugly racial politics | Austin Sarat ○
The president’s unconstitutional vision would bring a racist practice back to a city that has banned it for decades
The District of Columbia carried out its last execution in 1957. That April, it put …
6 months ago
Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it | Austin Sarat ○
The deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feel
In most of America’s largest cities, crime, especially violent crime, is down. But th…
7 months ago
Sentence before verdict: Trump’s attack on Obama is straight out of Alice in Wonderland | Austin Sarat ○
The president’s claims against his predecessor turn long-held ideals of American justice on their head
Almost every American knows that in our legal system, people accused of crimes are presumed innoc…
To defeat Trump, the left must learn from him | Austin Sarat ○
Six months into his second term, the president has been disastrous for democracy – but extraordinarily politically adept
In the first six months of his second term as president, Donald Trump has domin…