Trump v The Judiciary

Who will enforce?

It seems as though the Trump administration has been scouring old laws to try to find ways to get around new laws. Or to put it another way, to get away with the inhumane, horrible, undemocratic things they are doing (I had another word that had four letters, but chose to try to remain civil). They found an 18th-century wartime law which the president invoked to deport suspected members of a Venezuelan gang, and allows federal agents to enter homes without a warrant. The very old law was intended to be used in wartime; if the president is thinking he can find a way to explain how we are at war with Venezuela, then maybe it will stick. I’m being facetious, but he might.

This approach to the law will infringe on people’s civil liberties. Today, immigration authorities detained a researcher at Georgetown Universtity because he supposedly had ties to Hamas. Badar Khan Suri is an Indian national on a student visa in the US, and his wife is Palestinian. That she was born in Gaza City and was previously employed at Al Jazeera was, to Trump and Marco Rubio, proof of her support for Hamas. He and his lawyers of course deny that he did anything illegal. This is outrageous.

It’s scare tactics.

Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist, said he has never seen anything like what is happening now in this…