Adam Serwer

Texas

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

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Articles

The Trump Administration Tries to Intimidate Judges

5 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Adam Serwer

The arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan over allegedly obstructing the apprehension of an undocumented immigrant is an attempt to intimidate the judiciary. You can just ask Attorney General Pam Bondi. “What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me,” Bondi told Fox News, commenting on Dugan’s arrest. “They’re deranged. I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law, and they are not.
The Real Horror of 'Sinners' Isn’t Supernatural

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Adam Serwer

This article contains light spoilers for Sinners. Sinners is a symphony of vampire bites, gunshot wounds, people being staked in the heart and left to burn alive. Ryan Coogler’s film about twin gangsters trying to strike it rich in the Jim Crow South rapidly swerves toward supernatural horror when an ancient vampire seeks a way into the juke joint the twins have set up with their ill-gotten gains.
Trump Administration to Judges: ‘We Will Find You’

2 weeks ago | rsn.org | Adam Serwer

The attorney general’s message to the judiciary is clear. The arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan over allegedly obstructing the apprehension of an undocumented immigrant is an attempt to intimidate the judiciary. You can just ask Attorney General Pam Bondi. “What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me,” Bondi told Fox News, commenting on Dugan’s arrest. “They’re deranged. I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law, and they are not.
The Trump Administration Tries to Initimidate Judges

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Adam Serwer

The arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan over allegedly obstructing the apprehension of an undocumented immigrant is an attempt to intimidate the judiciary. You can just ask Attorney General Pam Bondi. “What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me,” Bondi told Fox News, commenting on Dugan’s arrest. “They’re deranged. I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law, and they are not.
The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

3 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Adam Serwer

Eduardo Daboin Rall, a detainee at ICE’s Bluebonnet facility, in Texas, thought he might never see his family again. The Venezuelan immigrant told NBC News that he was one of at least 28 men who were meant to be deported by the Trump administration. “My fellow [detainees] are really afraid that we’ll be deported to El Salvador,” Daboin Rall told NBC News.
Trump Is Defying the Supreme Court

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Adam Serwer

Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.
The Supreme Court Confronts Trump’s Lawlessness

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Adam Serwer

America has reached a very dangerous moment, as the Supreme Court’s indulgence of President Donald Trump’s belief in his own untrammeled authority collides with the justices’ expectation that he will abide by their decisions.
The ‘Path of Perfect Lawlessness’

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Adam Serwer

The Supreme Court is about to decide whether the Trump administration can exile Americans to a gulag overseas and then leave them there. The Trump administration wants everyone to believe that the case challenging its deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, is about the government’s right to deport undocumented immigrants, or gang members, or terrorists.
‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Adam Serwer

This article was updated on April 7, 2025, at 8:40 pm. The Supreme Court is about to decide whether the Trump administration can exile Americans to a gulag overseas and then leave them there. The Trump administration wants everyone to believe that the case challenging its deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, is about the government’s right to deport undocumented immigrants, or gang members, or terrorists.
Trump's Salvadoran Gulag - The Atlantic

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Adam Serwer

One thing that could be said about many—and possibly all—of the more than 100 men removed from the United States by the Trump administration under the archaic Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than they have. Trump, after all, was convicted of 34 felony counts by a jury of his peers in New York City for faking business records in order to cover up his hush-money payment to the adult-film actor Stormy Daniels in 2016.