As ICE creates new deportation centers, Newport, on the quirky, impossibly beautiful Oregon coast, finds itself a battleground in Trump’s war on immigrants. It’s not alone as ICE plans for hosts of detention centers in small towns.
John Eastman
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Trump’s Flaming Turd of an Argument for Ending Birthright Citizenship
A federal judge gently hints that Trump’s lawyer might consider a change of location and extinguishes the dung—for now.
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Protecting the Constitution the Washington Monthly Way
As a law professor and the magazine’s legal affairs editor, my phone doesn’t stop ringing during this constitutional crisis. Here’s how you can help.
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The Dangerous Journey of John Eastman
How a mild-mannered law professor became the architect of a scheme to overturn a presidential election.
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Pence to Trump: I Just Can’t Quit You
The special counsel demands that he testify but the former veep refuses—on dubious legal grounds—to fully break with the man who would have let him hang.
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The Decline and Possible Resurrection of Radical Gerrymandering
Exclusive: Gerrymandering is affecting U.S. House races much less often. But that could all change if the most conservative Supreme Court justices have their way.
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A Primer On Trump’s Legal Woes
An indictment seems very likely. Conviction is another matter.
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Trump “Will Be Indicted”
As the former president faces legal investigations, the author and white-collar-crime scholar Jennifer Taub identifies the probe that’s furthest along, what January 6 Committee graphic was key, and why you can’t get a toupee in federal prison.
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The January 6 Committee’s Fatal Connections
Congressional hearings tend to leave sounds and images lingering in the mind. I will never forget the methodical drone of John Dean’s voice explaining that he had told Richard Nixon there was a cancer on his presidency, or the bland sangfroid of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman correcting Representative Devin Nunes, “Ranking member, it’s ‘Lieutenant Colonel […]
