US Politics in Trump era Public date: 02.10.2020 20:59:01

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9 Nov 2018

Acting Attorney General Once Declared Courts ‘Inferior’ and Criticized Supreme Court’s Power

Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School constitutional law professor, said that Mr. Whitaker’s expressed views of the Constitution and the role of the courts “are extreme and the overall picture he presents would have virtually no scholarly support” and would be “destabilizing” to society if he used the power of the attorney general to advance them.
Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School constitutional law professor, said that Mr. Whitaker’s expressed views of the...
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extreme measures, justice department, matthew whitaker, trump agenda, trump cabinet
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2 Aug 2017

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions

The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times.
The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward...
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education, extreme measures, governance, jeff sessions, justice department, trump agenda
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28 Jul 2017

Justice Dept. Says Rights Law Doesn’t Protect Gays

The Department of Justice has filed court papers arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, taking a stand against a decision reached under former President Barack Obama.
The Department of Justice has filed court papers arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect...
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extreme measures, first amendment, governance, jeff sessions, justice department, lgbt, trump agenda, trump cabinet
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11 Mar 2017

Trump Abruptly Orders 46 Obama-Era Prosecutors to Resign

The Trump administration moved on Friday to sweep away most of the remaining vestiges of Obama administration prosecutors at the Justice Department, ordering 46 holdover United States attorneys to tender their  resignations immediately — including Preet Bharara, the United States  attorney in Manhattan.
The Trump administration moved on Friday to sweep away most of the remaining vestiges of Obama administration...
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justice department, obama, trump agenda
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Publisher: Slate Magazine

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27 Sep 2017

The DOJ’s new anti-gay legal posture just got shut down in federal court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit had a burning question for Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Tuesday: What are you doing in our courthouse? By the end of the day, the answer still wasn’t clear. Something else was, though: The DOJ’s new anti-gay legal posture is not going to be received with open arms by the federal judiciary.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit had a burning question for Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on...
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jeff sessions, justice department, trump agenda
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Publisher: The Atlantic

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2 Aug 2017

Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears

The chaos, legislative fumbling, and legal jeopardy should not obscure the ways that the administration is remaking federal policy in consequential ways. With the Trump administration’s chaos sucking up all the attention, it’s been able to move forward on a range of its priorities, which tend to be more focused on regulatory matters anyway. It is remaking the justice system, rewriting environmental rules, overhauling public-lands administration, and greenlighting major infrastructure projects. It is appointing figures who will guarantee the triumph of its ideological vision for decades to come.
The chaos, legislative fumbling, and legal jeopardy should not obscure the ways that the administration is remaking...
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conservatives, justice department, regulations, republicans, trump agenda, trump cabinet, ultra right
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Publisher: The Intercept

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17 Oct 2017

Top Trump Official John Kelly Ordered ICE to Portray Immigrants as Criminals to Justify Raids

A directive to immigration officials across the country to try to portray undocumented immigrants swept up in mass raids as criminals  came directly from then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, The Intercept has learned. The redacted emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by students at Vanderbilt University Law School, show that while hundreds of undocumented immigrants were rounded up across the country, DHS officials tried — and largely failed — to engineer a narrative that would substantiate the administration’s claims that the raids were motivated by public safety concerns.
A directive to immigration officials across the country to try to portray undocumented immigrants swept up in mass...
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extreme measures, governance, immigration, justice department, trump agenda, trump cabinet
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Publisher: The Intercept

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5 Oct 2017

Internal Emails Show ICE Agents Struggling to Substantiate Trump’s Lies About Immigrants

As hundreds of undocumented immigrants were rounded up across the country last February in the first mass raids of the Trump  administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials went out  of their way to portray the people they detained as hardened criminals, instructing field offices to highlight the worst cases for the media and attempting to distract attention from the dozens of individuals who were apprehended despite having no criminal background at all.
As hundreds of undocumented immigrants were rounded up across the country last February in the first mass raids of...
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extreme measures, ice, immigration, justice department, trump agenda
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Publisher: The New Yorker

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7 Jul 2017

White House Warns CNN That Critical Coverage Could Cost Time Warner Its Merger

The Trump administration is now openly threatening to use the Justice Department as a tool for punishing critical speech. White House advisers have discussed a potential point of leverage over their adversary, a senior administration official said: a pending merger between CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, and AT&T. Mr. Trump’s Justice Department will decide whether to approve the merger, and while analysts say there is little to stop the deal from moving forward, the president’s animus toward CNN remains a wild card. [my emphasis]
The Trump administration is now openly threatening to use the Justice Department as a tool for punishing critical...
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corruption, governance, justice department, media, trump agenda
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Publisher: ThinkProgress

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20 Apr 2018

First-time judge appointed by Trump issues his very first opinion. It’s a doozy.

More than just an ideologically radical opinion, Judge Ho’s dissent from the full United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision not to rehear Zimmerman v. City of Austin is a monument to conservative political rhetoric and right-wing historical myths. It’s the sort of commentary one would expect to find in an especially strident political magazine — perhaps one of the publications one of Ho’s current law clerks used to write for. It is emphatically not the sort of writing one expects to find in a judicial opinion.
More than just an ideologically radical opinion, Judge Ho’s dissent from the full United States Court of Appeals for...
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competence, conservatives, extreme measures, justice department, trump agenda, trumps america
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15 Sep 2017

Sanders destroys norm of DOJ independence, lays out case for political prosecution of Comey

During a news briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the administration’s case for prosecuting former FBI Director James Comey from the White House podium. In making the comments, Sanders is disregarding what was previously an important ethical standard — that the Justice Department has prosecutorial independence. The idea is that the Justice Department should decide who to prosecute based on a unbiased application of the law, not political pressure from the White House. This is something that neither Sanders or her boss seem to value.
During a news briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the administration’s case for...
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fbi, healthcare law, james comey, justice department, trump agenda, trump cabinet
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