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Stephen Miller’s 16-minute speech is an unintentionally revealing survey of the Trump team’s violation of basic legal principles, endangering the rule of law, and its consistent record of falsehoods.

The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.

In a blistering dissent, Jackson warned that the Court’s emergency ruling lets the Trump administration continue pursuing changes to state-run mail voting systems even though “no judge or Justice” has concluded that Trump’s order is constitutional.

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Unlike prior administrations, in Trump’s second term, ICE is aggressively arresting people far from the border and detaining them longer.

Why Trump will lose his war with Canada

The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize union members for organizing against its immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year. That’s because it correctly sees labor as a threat to its authoritarian designs.

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The investigation by the Judiciary Committee and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) detailed dozens of pardons which zeroed out unpaid fines and restitution of Trump allies and supporters, including money owed by January 6 Capitol rioters.