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Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers Planted by Bush and Cheney

Rebecca Gordon TomDispatch
Sending people to another country didn't start with Donald Trump, but with George W. Bush in the War on Terror, called "extraordinary rendition." “Extraordinary” when it occurs outside of normal legal strictures, as with Abrego García today.

We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid

Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence H. Tribe The New York Times
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants... If the government can disappear any people it wishes, we all should be very, very afraid.
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