An overwhelming majority of Americans of all political stripes want Congress to fix immigration, and yet, Congress has failed to do so for decades.
The Haake Take
Sabrina Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her columns are published in Alternet, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Out South Florida, Raw Story, Salon, Smart News and Windy City Times. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.
Lawyers who represent the government in federal court face a never-ending and creative supply of First and 14th Amendment cases. Like overcooked spaghetti flung on a wall, most such Constitutional claims don’t stick. They hit a well-oiled wall of federal case law and slide right off.
It’s exasperating to watch the American legal system bend over backward to protect a lawless man committed to its destruction, but here we are.
The foundational pin holding the American rule of law together is that no man is above it.
Women battered at home are five times more likely to be murdered if there’s a gun in the house, so people under domestic violence restraining orders, pursuant to federal law, can’t have guns.
During Donald Trump’s first impeachment over his attempt to extort Ukraine funding until President Zelenskyy “found” dirt on Joe Biden, Trump threatened the source of information about the incident. Trump said in a speech that whoever had leaked the information about his discussion with Zelensky was like a spy, and that “in the old days” spies were “dealt with differently.”
For a brief and illusory moment, it looked like the GOP had found its center, and the center had finally found its voice.
Last week, when Jim Jordan fell short of the necessary votes to become House Speaker despite Donald Trump’s strong-arm endorsement, Jordan and his allies unleashed an intimidation campaign.
For religious zealotry, economic inequality, and other key ingredients of radicalization, no other region in the world compares to the Middle East.
For the first time in US history, the Speaker of the House of Representatives has been ousted. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, it is nothing to cheer.
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