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The coming constitutional ice age

Last fall, during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge. We chatted and I asked him what he was doing. He told me he worked for Immigration and Customs ...

Immigration is shaking up political parties in Britain, Europe and the US

As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign for his appointment of Epstein-tied Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, one is struck by the sudden instability of British governments. In the 28 years between 1979 and 2007, Britain had only three prime ministers, ...

Voter ID shouldn’t be this controversial

President Trump says that "Republicans" should "nationalize the election" or at least take over voting in up to 15 places where he says voting is corrupt. His evidence of fraudulent voting is that he lost in such places in 2020, and since it is axiomatic that he won everywhere, the reported ...

Sorry, Bad Bunny, the USA is indeed ‘America’

It might be the first time that Bad Bunny has been suspected of cribbing from Irving Berlin. Near the end of his Super Bowl halftime show, the Puerto Rican rapper said, "God bless, America." For many Americans, they were the only words that they could understand and ones that they, ...

What you can do to stop big corporations from helping ICE

Many of you tell me you feel powerless in the face of Trump's reign of terror. You view and read horrific news reports about what ICE and Border Patrol are doing, but you don't know how you can reduce or stop this horror. Let me assure you: You're not powerless. In fact, you have enormous ...

Beware the bully promising a ‘soft touch’

For casual observers of U.S. politics, an interview President Donald Trump gave last Wednesday to "NBC Nightly News" might have suggested a change of tone in the federal government's standoff in Minnesota. Speaking of the brute-force operations federal agents have conducted there rounding up ...