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To change things up, we are starting with good news. Over the last several months in Louisiana, Governor Jeff Landry spent significant political capital trying to ram through four constitutional amendments, which, amongst other things, would have created statewide “specialty courts”–a move that could have removed cases from local jurisdictions, mirroring efforts across the south…

There was nothing normal about Trump’s remarks at the Department of Justice a week ago. Not the venue–most other presidents before Trump have deliberately maintained a firewall between the agency and the presidency. And certainly not the words themselves–an hour-long tirade that meandered through a list of the president’s personal grievances. At the top of…

For decades, conservatives championed the idea that power should remain with states and local governments. But Trump’s latest actions tell a different story: one where the federal government overrides local decision-making to serve his personal and political interests. From blocking New York’s congestion pricing plan to interfering with California’s water management, his administration is aggressively…

As of today, the fate of the approximately 11 million undocumented people in this country hangs in the balance.  The Trump administration is currently playing coy after details leaked about its original plan to start conducting mass deportation raids across the country as early as this past Tuesday. But the only uncertainty now is when,…

We’ve been quiet these last few weeks. Many have offered their analyses for this country’s tremendous voter swings as well their predictions about what is to come under a second Trump presidency. We wanted to make sure we had something additive, and so we refrained from piling it on further with our own hot take.…