Lower courts are holding the line against authoritarianism while getting death threats and zero backup from above.
District Court Judge Karin Immergut – a Trump appointee – issued an opinion that shows courage in judging, without rhetoric or defiance—only the quiet insistence that facts still matter.
Trump claimed there is a rebellion, but Judge Breyer said that obviously no such rebellion exists. Breyer held that a handful of individuals toppling a Waymo does not in fact strip thousands of peaceful protesters of their First Amendment rights.
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Judge Harvey Wilkinson, a Ronald Reagan appointee, called the Abrego Garcia case "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
The proposal from outside the White House has the potential to upend our entire system of labor relations.
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