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1 week ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Laura Gamboa |Jen Patja
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In recent years, political scientists have given a great deal of attention to “democratic backsliding”—the slow erosion of democracy by aspiring authoritarians. The events of the last several months in the United States—with attacks from the Trump administration on the press, higher education, and any center of power outside the White House—make this research all the more relevant.
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1 week ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Kathleen Romig |Devin O'Connor |Jen Patja
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As the Trump administration seeks to escalate its immigration crackdown, the government has turned to a concerning source of information for data on immigrants: the Social Security Administration.
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3 weeks ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff
On April 18 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including Judge Boasberg's finding of probable cause for contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case.
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3 weeks ago | 
rsn.org | Quinta Jurecic
As the Trump administration talks itself into refusing to comply with judicial orders, federal judges are moving closer to deploying the most powerful tool they have: contempt of court. Since early February, when Vice President J. D. Vance posted on X that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” the United States has been inching nearer and nearer to the moment when the White House directly defies an order of the court.
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3 weeks ago | 
theatlantic.com | Quinta Jurecic
Since early February, when Vice President J. D. Vance posted on X that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” the United States has been inching nearer and nearer to the moment when the White House directly defies an order of the court. So far, that moment doesn’t appear to have arrived—in part because the Trump administration can’t quite commit to its own authoritarian posturing.
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4 weeks ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Roger Parloff |Quinta Jurecic
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On April 18 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including Judge Boasberg's finding of probable cause for contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case. Find Lawfare’s litigation tracker here.
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff
In a live conversation on April 11, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff, Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce, and Lawfare Contributing Editor Bob Bauer to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including the April 11 hearing on the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court’s decisions in Abrego Garcia’s case and the Alien Enemies Act case, the...
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Natalie Orpett |Benjamin Wittes
The Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Trump v. J.G.G. has sent a strange set of mixed messages to the Trump administration concerning its invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to ship hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador.
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Quinta Jurecic
The justices exhibit a disturbing willingness to ignore the human costs of Trump’s actions, preferring instead to remain within the more comfortable zone of high-minded legal theory. Over the course of one afternoon and evening last month, the Department of Homeland Security loaded three planes with migrants, most of them Venezuelan men whom the Trump administration had determined, on the basis of little to no evidence, to be members of the gang Tren de Aragua.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Quinta Jurecic
7 hours agoThe president signed an executive order late Tuesday that aims to “stop the enforcement” of a broad swath of state climate regulations. President Donald Trump is throwing the weight of the Justice Department against the last bastion of U.S. climate action: states and cities. In a sweeping executive …
