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1 week ago | 
rsn.org | Natasha Lennard
The Trump administration doesn’t want a protectionist college system. They want a destroyed one.
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1 week ago | 
theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard
On the same day that a federal judge deemed Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil on alleged “foreign policy” grounds likely unconstitutional, Rubio announced in a gnomic statement that the Trump administration will “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students, including those with “ties to the Chinese Communist Party” or who are studying in “critical fields.” Little more detail was given.
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2 weeks ago | 
theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard
You may have come across a common thought experiment that asks how the establishment U.S. media might cover a given domestic news event were it to occur in a maligned foreign country.
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3 weeks ago | 
theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard
One of the top job requirements for attorneys in Donald Trump’s Justice Department seems to be an abundance of shamelessness. A lot of legal professionals have to defend the indefensible as part of their jobs, but arguing that rampant lawlessness is legal — as government attorneys now do in many of the 240-plus lawsuits filed against the current Trump administration — requires a particular flair for impudence.
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1 month ago | 
theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military could be enforced while legal challenges against the policy continue. The ban on trans service members — one of Trump’s early executive orders in a tidal wave of discriminatory directives — had been blocked by lower courts.
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1 month ago | 
znetwork.org | Natasha Lennard
The FBI arrested a sitting judge in a Milwaukee County court in Wisconsin on Friday, claiming that she obstructed immigration enforcement agents from detaining an undocumented immigrant in her courtroom. Milwaukee County Circuit Court is not only the latest escalation in Donald Trump’s fascist deportation program, it also marks the administration’s eagerness to take aim at any and all constraints on its power to act.
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1 month ago | 
theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard
The FBI arrested a sitting judge in a Milwaukee County court in Wisconsin on Friday, claiming that she obstructed immigration enforcement agents from detaining an undocumented immigrant in her courtroom. Milwaukee County Circuit Court is not only the latest escalation in Donald Trump’s fascist deportation program, it also marks the administration’s eagerness to take aim at any and all constraints on its power to act.
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1 month ago | 
theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard
The Department of Homeland Security said this week in a Michigan court that the agency does not have the authority to terminate students’ immigration statuses by terminating their records in the Student Exchange and Visitor Information System.
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1 month ago | 
theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard
Donald Trump’s administration moved this week to declare thousands of immigrants dead. The 6,000-plus very-much-alive people, predominantly undocumented immigrants from Latin America, continue to eat, sleep, breathe, and work on U.S. soil. Their names have nonetheless been added to the Social Security Administration’s “death master file,” the database used to list dead people who should no longer receive benefits.
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1 month ago | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Sonali Chakravarti |Sophie Lewis |Natasha Lennard
On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Tessie Prevost woke up and put on one of her prettiest dresses. Like Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Ruby Bridges, Tessie was a very special little girl. Along with hundreds of other Black children, the New Orleans Four, as they would forever be known, had taken a test. The test was devised by the Louisiana Pupil Placement Board after Brown v. Board of Education had declared separate but equal schools unconstitutional.
