Isaac Saul on Dialogue and Disagreement

The Trump administration's goal here, I think, is is not to go win these cases in court. It's to kind of inject the shock and awe and fear into the populace. It's to get the quote unquote self-deportations. It's to sort of get people back underground who previously felt comfortable, you know, lifting their heads up and speaking out about the administration or or saying, you know, quote unquote the wrong thing publicly.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. There is such a daily onslaught of news and headlines about the Trump administration that it's really hard to keep an overview about what's actually happening and which way the country is going? Is the Supreme Court just selling out to Donald Trump or are many jurists, constitutionalists, who are actually trying to preserve the basics of the American Republic? Are we on the road to fascism or is Trump's attempt to expand executive power being constrained and slowed down?

by the checks and balances in the political system. Are deputations at a much higher level than they were in the past a deeply immoral abuse of political power? Or are deputations still lower than they were in Barack Obama's time in office? Are they an appropriate way to make sure that the laws of the land are respected.

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