Whose rule of law is it?
Some questions on where the country's headed this week, and a reminder that we're live with Preet Bharara at 11 a.m. Eastern today
Today, Thursday, June 5, at 11 a.m. Eastern, we’ll be going live with lawyer and former United States Attorney Preet Bharara. You can watch our Live events on your desktop at The Ink or on your phone or tablet with the Substack app.
Can a university obey enough?
Under Donald Trump, is the pardon power just patronage in disguise?
How truly Kafkaesque are the White House’s attacks on the law? Judge James Boasberg’s ruling that the men sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison can challenge their kidnapping and removal provides a clue.
Is Trump projecting — or trying to erase Joe Biden’s presidency?
Are immigrants and asylum seekers even supposed to follow the rules anymore?
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is ready to fight — can the Democratic Party process generational change?
How have the ever-expanding definitions of “antisemitism” and “national security” brought us to a new travel ban on refugees and college students?
Have chatbots made everyone a cheater?
With Elon Musk reportedly on the outs with the White House, are centrist Democrats seriously considering courting him as an ally?
And does new evidence show that mass protest really works?
Before we talk with Preet Bharara later this morning, visit the links below for a look back at some of our past coverage of the courts, the expansion of executive power, and Donald Trump’s ongoing attempt to bend the law to his own ends.
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What concerns me is that Elon actually accomplished what he intended to, he has left many of his minions in place and they are collecting and collating privacy data on US citizens, or already have.
Trump got in bed with someone who is quite possibly a more reprehensible human being than he is, and he seems to be afraid to alienate Elon now that he has supposedly turned on him. And of course, at the end of the day we the people are the biggest losers.
Found by googling it and I got this. I had heard of it
“But never underestimate the American bourgeoisie’s capacity to embrace fascism under the name of populism. Or the power of television.
Stephen King, 11/22/63”
Musk needs to pay for his crimes against humanity and his associates must be prosecuted for our data’s theft and misuse before we are subjugated