Sayed Naser worked with U.S. forces in Afghanistan, fled after the Taliban killed his brother, and was awaiting asylum. ICE agents still took him in handcuffs—and the government won’t explain why.
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
The Department of Homeland Security's recent campaign is just the latest chapter.
The symposium has now concluded.
Plus: a players union failure, immigration for the World Cup, and Welcome to Wrexham.
Plus: A bipartisan effort to prevent American involvement in the war, ICE workplace raids to begin again, and more...
U.S. involvement in the new Middle East conflict, political violence at home, and the No Kings protests
On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.
In the shadow of immigration crackdowns and federal troops on the ground, shopkeepers and customers are scared away, leaving businesses devastated.
Plus: Suspect in Minnesota shootings arrested, Iran and Israel still fighting, Ross Ulbricht speaks, and more...
Deportation means expelling an alien back to their home country for violating immigration law. Many of the Trump administration's actions don't meet that definition.
A blow to recent arrivals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
"I think it just puts a lot of fear in people—especially the hard-working people who are doing nothing wrong."
U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz highlights the chilling impact of Marco Rubio's dubious rationale for deporting students whose views offend him.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.
It explains why a nondelegation challenge could work and deserves to win, despite Trump v. Hawaii.
And Americans deserve dissenting voices that aren’t inept and crazy.
Trump's policy here is yet another example of abusive invocation of emergency powers.
Soliman is the man "charged with a horrific June 1, 2025 antisemitic fire-bombing attack 'against a peaceful gathering of individuals commemorating Israeli hostages.'"
Cary López Alvarado, a U.S. citizen who is nine months pregnant, was detained after blocking immigration agents from entering what she believed to be private property.
The Kentucky senator is also not a big fan of military parades, populist economics, or shredding due process.
The truth is less dramatic—and more important.
Plus: When Stalin Meets Star Wars.
Agents were chasing and apprehending workers in the early hours of the morning.
The border is no longer the focus. Now, the White House wants you to believe that the crisis extends to nail salons, hardware stores, farms, and restaurants across the country.
Plus: Trump's big parade, Elon Musk makes amends, Zohran Mamdani gains, and more...
Even if the president was joking in both cases, he already has used his powers to punish people whose views offend him.
Attorney Laura Powell of Californians for Good Governance joins the show to discuss the civil unrest in Los Angeles following federal immigration raids.
In a federal lawsuit, California's governor argues that the president's assertion of control over "the State's militia" is illegal and unconstitutional.
Trump and the right are living out their fantasies of rewriting the awful summer of 2020.
As hundreds gathered to oppose ICE raids, a familiar pattern played out: peace by day, flash-bangs by night.
There are now initial contributions by Andy Craig, Tarnell Brown, Aaron Ross Powell, Jonathan Blanks, and myself, plus response essays.
Plus: RFK Jr. tackles vaccine advisory board, menswear influencer might be deportable, and more...
The article describes how the two can be mutually reinforcing, building on lessons from previous episodes in constitutional history.
Are outdated laws ripe for abuse? A listener asks whether it's time to sunset certain old laws.
The Department of Justice brought the deported Salvadoran back to U.S. soil for trial, reversing its long-held contention that he would "never" return.
Karoline Leavitt's threat against ABC News is an attack on free speech.
Trump's domestic use of the military to counter anti-deportation protests in LA is so far very limited. But that could change. A big part of the root of the problem is the lawless behavior of federal immigation-enforcement agencies.
Those accused of wrongdoing have the right to challenge the evidence against them before the government takes away their liberty.
Trump v. Hawaii may block a challenge based on unconstitutional discrimination. But it does not preclude a nondelegation case. Other recent developments may actually bolster that approach.
The Trump Administration returned the illegally deported migrant from imprisonment in El Salvador after repeatedly claiming they could not do so.
The State Department is eliminating the CARE office and ending the Enduring Welcome program, stranding U.S. allies who risked their lives and were told America would protect them.
Without such intervention, he warns, the government "could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action."
Plus: Trump's travel ban, NYC mayor candidate cites bad stats on child hunger, and more...
He has banned nearly all new immigration and other entry by citizens of twelve countries, and imposed severe restrictions on seven more.
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