Creeping autocracy doesn't just roll onto Main Street with tanks. Though under President Donald Trump, one might argue we're closer to that sort of thing than we'd like to admit. More often, autocracy starts with a list, a government list, then more lists, then bigger lists, and the names on those lists begin to face the full force of the state with blatant disregard for the rule of law and for basic constitutional rights.If you followed our coverage, you know the warning. Autocrats don't go after the avera ...

All right, joining me now is the aforementioned uh Cassandra Burke Robinson. She's a law professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics. Dino Badala is a host of the Dino Badala Show on SiriusXM, author of the Dean Report on Substack and columnist for the MSNBC Daily Newsletter. Before we start, just a heads up, we are uh continuing to wait for any updates out of this tragic story in Texas. We'll bring you anything you get we get as we get i ...

As we prepare to celebrate our country's 249th birthday, we are getting new insight into what Americans think about where the country stands. A new NPR PBS News mayor's poll found 34 of Americans feel that democracy is under serious threat and see politically motivated violence as a major problem. So, who better to talk about this moment in time than presidential historian John Meechum.He wrote a new introduction to Random Houses's volume of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. So, John, um ...

Immigrant-rights groups and Democratic-led states challenging President Donald Trump’s limits on birthright citizenship have changed their strategies after a Supreme Court decision upended their initial legal victories https://t.co/388eKTuY1i ...

The Justice Department is aggressively moving to strip some Americans of their citizenship. NPR reports department leadership is directing its attorneys to pursue dennaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes and giving US attorneys wider discretion on when to carry out that move. It's according to a June 11th memo published online.And NPR points out the tactic is aimed at US citizens who were not born in the country. According to 2023 figures, nearly 25 million immigra ...

A new report, meanwhile, reveals the Justice Department is aggressively moving to strip some Americans of their citizenship. NPR reports department leadership is directing its attorneys to pursue denaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes and giving US attorneys wider discretion on when to carry out that move. It's according to a June 11th memo published online.And NPR points out the tactic is aimed at US citizens who were not born in the country. According to 2023 fi ...

But there is still a mom somewhere. And I remember going into the hospital to have my first baby and you have a thousand and1 concerns. And I was lucky enough as a US citizen who had her baby in 2016 that one of my concerns was not is my baby going to be stateless because I live in a country where the government has decided that this no longer applies at arch and. ...

the disastrous decision by the Supreme Court four days ago that allows the Trump administration to begin implementing a flatly odious and unconstitutional order on birthright citizenship. Well, today the administration announced it will begin deporting people subject to that order as soon as July 27th. It's it's madness, but it is madness with a method, which is to deconstruct the foundational concept of what it is to be an American.A concept created in this country's second founding by the 14th Amendment, ...

The Justice Department told a judge that the government won’t apply Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship to affected immigrants before July 27, when the Supreme Court’s 30-day pause on the directive expires https://t.co/nETxVL9gbp ...

A judge overseeing a challenge to Donald Trump’s restrictions on automatic birthright citizenship asked the US government to confirm it won’t seek to deport impacted children during the Supreme Court’s 30-day pause on the directive https://t.co/rv5spsnBUn ...