Weekly Perspective

 

           

 

“You can't take our country — and you can't take our game.”   — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,  taunting Trump  after Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in overtime to win the 4 Nations ice hockey competition. KING FOR A NAY A growing number of Republicans in Congress are rattled  by Donald Trump’s chaotic, government-slashing bedlam. Some are getting an earful from their voters. Did the American people vote to witness a billionaire-led reenactment of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” with the role of the victims filled out by the country’s veterans, social security net and public safety programs? You might conclude that Republicans think they did, judging from DOGE-Bag-in-Chief Elon Musk’s performance onstage at the CPAC conservative conference yesterday, where he  waved an actual chainsaw  over his head while reveling in the bloodbath of dismembered government programs that he and Trump have left lying in the road.  But polls are  turni...

This is a launch of a new feature we have dubbed "#TrumpWatch" as the first two weeks of the Trump Adminstration takes shape. We present the following snapshot of a week in America this week after the first two weeks of the Trump Adminstration:   Greetings, readers! My apologies for the dearth of posts lately. I’ve been traveling the country to do some reporting for my forthcoming book on criminal defense. Probably not the best timing, given the wholesale attack on our democracy since January 20th. I’ll be back in Nashville and on a regular schedule in about a week. The good news is, I’ve found quite a few stories and talked to some really interesting folks on this trip. I’ll be writing about some of that in the coming weeks. — Radley A Q&A with immigration attorneys on the ground So far, defense counsel for detained immigrants are seeing only subtle changes in deportations. But it's likely to get a lot worse. Radley Balko Feb 8   READ IN APP   ICE agents raid a hom...