On August 11, President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to Washington D.C. and federalized the city’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Armed troops are patrolling the streets of D.C. with an influx of agents from the FBI, DHS, DEA, ICE, the State Department, and other federal agencies. Guard troops from Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, West […]
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Tattoos and “Terrorism-Aligned” Speech in the Second Trump Administration In a criminal context, the Fourth Amendment signals that the executive can’t just declare on its own authority that a person may be searched or seized. Instead, before seizing or searching, the executive has to swear to an independent court that the person is suspected of […]