This week at the smokeless cigar bar, Dahlia and Madiba K. Dennie of Balls and Strikes discuss the beating of a man by DHS officers near Chicago that can be traced directly to the Supreme Court. Justice Brett Kavanaugh laid the foundation for this kind of law-enforcement stop last year. Next, the Missouri map case keeps coming back, which undermines not only the law but confidence in elections.
Dahlia and Madiba revisit recent examples of the Trump administration ignoring courts at every turn. DHS is continuing to send people to third countries as a means of removing them from the country, the Missouri Republican Party keeps trying to reinstate an illegal electoral map, but in a (slightly) bright spot, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke publicly about how SCOTUS’ abuse of the shadow docket damages its credibility and the rule of law.
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