By ignoring judicial restrictions during its raid on Representative Ilhan Omar, the Justice Department traded its institutional legitimacy for a short-term political strike that shatters constitutional boundaries.
By Adele Rutherford ·
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin's search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home over childhood paperwork is a political hit job that weaponizes federal law enforcement to intimidate a critic.
By Alma Cordero ·
By raiding Rep. Ilhan Omar's home and calling Abdul El-Sayed a jihadist, Donald Trump uses the state to intimidate Muslim leaders before the midterm elections.
By Alma Cordero ·
The Trump administration's plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan replaces the discipline of military justice with political theater, risking a procedural disaster before a global audience.
By Adele Rutherford ·
By raiding Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home weeks before the midterms, the Trump administration has traded the passive virtues of the law for spectacle, degrading the justice system into a partisan instrument.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Pete Hegseth trades military dignity for digital spectacle by livestreaming an execution, forfeiting institutional legitimacy for political bravado when the state treats law as public theater.
By Adele Rutherford ·
After ICE agents shot Oscar Belgal in front of his child, Mayor Zohran Mamdani rightfully demanded the rogue agency leave New York rather than terrorize another neighborhood under the guise of law and order.
By Alma Cordero ·
When federal agents shot Oscar Belgal on a public street with a child present, they proved that immigration enforcement operates with total impunity and must be expelled from our neighborhoods.
By Alma Cordero ·
Mayor Zohran Mamdani demanded an ICE freeze after an agent shot Oscar Belgal in front of his son, but the Trump administration chose violence and fees over safety.
By Alma Cordero ·
When federal agents shot Oscar Belgal in front of his child, Washington rushed to defend the reckless attack, proving ICE operates with total impunity and must be abolished.
By Alma Cordero ·
By weaponizing ten Minnesota election cases, Todd Blanche and the Department of Justice are using procedural theater to build a centralized federal machinery that undermines trust in democratic processes.
By Adele Rutherford ·
As federal raids terrorize Kansas towns and gut local businesses, Republican politicians who cheered on this brutal machinery cannot run from the devastation they helped unleash.
By Alma Cordero ·
Federal agents rammed a Venezuelan worker and shot him in North Austin, then dumped him in detention without a bed or timely care.
By Alma Cordero ·
After ICE shot a delivery driver in Austin, federal agents hurried him into detention with a bullet in his back to silence a key witness.
By Alma Cordero ·
In my years in the Foreign Service, I learned that the most dangerous thing a government can do is confuse firmness with theater.
By Tom Beckwith ·
When Donald Trump took to Truth Social to hail Lance Schroyer as a "PATRIOT" with the "decades of experience" required to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he wasn't…
By Aoife Gallagher ·