An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.
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The death followed months in immigration detention — and human rights groups’ condemnation of Belgium’s crackdown on protests.
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Paramjit Singh is going blind in ICE detention. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.
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The Republican-appointed judges could influence future rulings on defendants’ rights amid Trump’s free speech crackdown.
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The deal came weeks before Trump unveiled a peace plan for Gaza that could leave the security contractor’s business model under threat.
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The far right proposed turning back the clock on lots of criminal justice reforms to prevent similar crimes, but not the change that might work.
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Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires.
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The unusual ruling delivered a searing rebuke to the Trump administration on grounds of violating the First Amendment.
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The president blames Mexico for the flow of drugs into the U.S. — while the flow of guns from the U.S. displaces poor people in Mexico.
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To keep her in detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
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