The White House took a step last week that significantly undercuts the idea that federal employment should be nonpartisan. No modern presidential administration has undertaken such an effort to staff the entire government with political loyalists.
Rallies across the country have been held in support of David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union California, who was briefly hospitalized with a head injury after his arrest.
Harvard became the first university to push back and sue Trump over his intrusions into academia. Before Harvard, Columbia folded. As with the law firms, the question is, who will bend the knee and who would tell the tyrant-in-the-making NO!
The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle. He had the audacity to suggest that “our sacred rule of law is under attack.
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For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus—a fundamental protection against unlawful imprisonment—has remained a core fixture of democratic governance. Suspending it would defy the Constitution, but Trump is weighing his options.
The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.
More than 440 college presidents and other officials signed a letter Tuesday protesting the “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” that higher education is facing under the Trump administration.
He is widely known in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, where he has been based since moving to the United States more than a decade ago, as a spiritual man who grew up Muslim, a practicing Buddhist, and whose closest friends are Jewish.
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