It’s pretty clear from developments today that the Trump Administration has decided to defy both a federal district judge and the U.S. Supreme Court over the case of a man the administration admits was wrongly deported to El Salvador.
As I write on my new Substack, this is was a Constitutional crisis looks like.
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On to this week’s column.
“The arc of the moral universe is long,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “but it bends towards justice.”
I still believe in that optimistic, long-term view, but we also know that the arc of American history on the path to “a more perfect union” is a place of many detours and culdesacs that do take us backward.
It is our fate — largely our own doing — to live at a time when the arc is going backward. Backward, perhaps, to the Gilded Age of the 1890s. The president likes to invoke William McKinley, for example, as an ideal, but the 25th president is, at best, a shady role model.
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