There will be no calm still point.
- Trump defying the Court; a Constitutional crisis, perhaps;
- The next phase of Trump’s dictatorship era;
- Following the dictator playbook;
- Concern about discrimination against whites, and how MAGA is about white supremacy;
- How narratives win over data and facts, and how Democrats should tell stories;
- The mythos on the right and the logos on the left;
- Musk’s idea of “freedom cities”.
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Back to current news. What’ the latest?
Trump seems to be defying judicial orders. The next step in a constitutional crisis.
NY Times, 17 Mar 2025: A Court Showdown on Deportations
A federal judge in Washington pressed the Trump administration at a hearing this afternoon to explain why the U.S. deported to El Salvador more than 200 migrants with little or no due process.
Over the weekend, the same judge had issued an order barring the expulsions, but the Trump administration went through with them anyway. At today’s hearing, the judge said he was trying to establish whether the government had defied his order. He made no ruling, but he told the Trump administration to return to his court on Friday to argue over the merits.
And:
NY Times, 16 Mar 2025: White House Denies Violating Judge’s Order in Deporting Venezuelans, subtitled “Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, also asserted that the federal courts “have no jurisdiction” over President Trump’s conduct of foreign affairs or his power to expel foreign enemies.”
