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Brian Russell Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the… more

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In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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Journals that publish symposia on recent books?
A philosopher elsewhere writes: “I’m trying to put…comments [received on the philosopher’s recent book] together in the form of a book symposium, which would also include my repli…
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Philosopher (and former FBI agent) Luke Hunt discusses Trump’s abuse of the National Guard for domestic policing…
…on Australian TV. Professor Hunt treads rather too lightly on the political theater dimension of all this, but perhaps that is prudent for a University of Alabama professor!
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The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.
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