Jamelle Bouie

Charlottesville

Opinion Columnist at The New York Times

Co-Host at Unclear and Present Danger Podcast

My name is Jamelle Bouie. @nytopinion columnist. Co-host of @UnclearPod. Upgrade your grey matter, ‘cuz one day it may matter.

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100 days of chaos meets 100 days of resistance

5 days ago | peacemakeronline.com | Marc H. Morial |Jamelle Bouie

“Trump wants us to be demoralized. He wants his despotic plans to be a fait accompli. They will be if no one stands in the way.
Trump's New Lows Are Basically Predictable

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

I wrote a long essay for my column this week - comparing Donald Trump's first 100 days to Franklin Roosevelt's - so I'm running low on takes to end the week on. But I do have two thoughts that I just wanted to get out. The first relates to the president's declining popularity. We learned, at the start of the week, that Donald Trump had sunk to new lows with most Americans. According to The Times's poll with Siena College, Trump had dropped to 42 percent approval.
Prez Trump, you’re no Franklin Roosevelt

1 week ago | dtnext.in | Jamelle Bouie

NEW DELHI: There is no question that Donald Trump’s ambition in the first 100 days of his return to the Oval Office was to set a new standard for presidential accomplishment. To rival, even surpass, the scope of Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts nearly a century ago, when he moved so quickly — and so decisively — that he established the first 100 days as a yardstick for executive action.
Donald Trump, You're No Franklin Roosevelt

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

There is no question that Donald Trump's ambition in the first 100 days of his return to the Oval Office was to set a new standard for presidential accomplishment. To rival, even surpass, the scope of Franklin Roosevelt's efforts nearly a century ago, when he moved so quickly - and so decisively - that he established the first 100 days as a yardstick for executive action.
Trump Doesn't Want to Govern

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

I think it's obvious that neither President Trump nor his coterie of agents and apparatchiks has any practical interest in governing the nation. It's one reason (among many) they are so eager to destroy the federal bureaucracy; in their minds, you don't have to worry about something, like monitoring the nation's dairy supply for disease and infection, if the capacity for doing so no longer exists. But there is another, less obvious way in which this observation is true.
Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

The American constitutional system is built on the theory that the self-interest of lawmakers can be as much of a defense against tyranny as any given law or institution. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, "The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
This Is How Far Vance Will Go to Sell a Lie

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance wrote a long defense of the administration's anti-immigrant rendition program, slamming critics who want the White House to obey a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It is a notable example of the lengths the White House has gone to try to deceive the public as it deals with political fallout from its open defiance of the federal judiciary.
'Citizens, Watch Out': Three Opinions Writers on Trump's Supreme Court Defiance

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michelle Cottle |Jamelle Bouie |Derek Arthur

Another week, another show of contempt for the rule of law. Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man deported because of an "administrative error," back to his home in Maryland. But, so far, the administration has not complied.
Opinion: America, this is an old and brutal tyranny

4 weeks ago | timesfreepress.com | Jamelle Bouie

The Trump administration believes it can send anyone it wants, without due process or future legal recourse, to rot in a foreign prison. It has argued as much in court. Lawyers for the Justice Department have asserted the president's supposedly "inherent" authority to remove foreign nationals from the United States, and the White House is openly defying a court order to facilitate the return of an immigrant living in Maryland and sent, accidentally, to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

But the Trump administration won't budge. Justice Department lawyers deny that the government has any responsibility to get Abrego Garcia home and insist that his removal wasn't a mistake, although they won't share the information that might support this claim on the grounds that it is sensitive and thus classified. The White House has also taken this position outside of the courtroom.