Trump’s showdown with liberal democracy continues. Trump received pushback from his separate-families-at-the-border policy, intended to punish and deter asylum seekers. He came up with something worse: Hostage Taking. Thus under the new policy, the government is kidnapping the children & holding them as hostages until the parents agree to leave the country, offering parents a …
For easy retweeting and argument settling: “The Due Process Clause applies to all ‘persons’ within the United States, including aliens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent.” Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678 (2001) Due process, including a fair hearing on parental fitness, is required before the government can interfere with a …
(Thread) Trump and the cultural war. Part I: Background Spoiler 1: I believe that Trump’s strategy, to distract from Mueller’s findings, will be to try to ignite a dangerous cultural war. Spoiler 2: Trumpism is all about race. [To continue reading, view here as a Twitter thread]
The government took children from asylum seekers. Many of those children now appear to be lost. Now what? You all did so well with Twitter Law 101 here’s the advanced class. [To continue reading, view here as a Twitter thread]
Now that President Trump has issued an executive order that may perhaps end his administration’s policy of family separation, there are still many outstanding questions: What happens to new families entering the United States? Will there be a Separation 2.0, just like there was a Travel Ban 2.0? And most distressingly, what happens to the children who have …
There are a lot of people writing about how separating children from parents is “not the law.” In fact, what’s happening is unconstitutional under two leading Supreme Court cases. Here you go everyone: Twitter Law 101 The U.S. Supreme Court has held that parents have a Constitutional right to the care and custody of their …
The “separate the children” policy is unconstitutional under two leading cases. Read More »
(thread) Children in cages: Trump’s showdown with Liberal Democracy. With Trump doubling down on his “remove children at the border” strategy, this may be a fight to the death: If Trump wins, democracy loses. OTOH, if Trump gets his wings clipped now, he could be finished. [To continue reading, view here as a Twitter thread]
Trump’s America is not a momentary madness. Here’s a summary of one of the essays in this volume “Authoritarianism is Not a Momentary Madness, but an Eternal Dynamic within Liberal Democracies,” by Stenner (Princeton) & Haidt (NYU). My comments at the end. [This was redone and updated] [To continue reading, view here as a Twitter …
[Filed under crimes, although these are actually non-criminal violations] The NY Attorney General filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump Foundation (Trump, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric) of “persistently illegal conduct” and “repeated and willful self-dealing transactions.” The petition is here: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court_stamped_petition.pdf … [To continue reading, view here as a Twitter thread]
FDR defined fascism as “ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” To get a better sense of what fascism is, I read Paxton’s book. Here are my takeaways. Fascism isn’t an ideology, it’s a phenomena, a mass uprising led by a mesmerizing leader who evokes the nation’s mythical …
