A federal judge kept the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office under court supervision after finding the county had not proved its racial-profiling reforms would last. Turns out “trust us” is not a compliance plan.
Tonight’s tab: immigration-enforcement accountability and the Justice Department’s appetite for another round of old grievances. Keep the onion rings; bring the receipts.
A Maryland judge blocked the White House’s latest birthright-citizenship workaround, ruling the government cannot deny citizenship to certified class members the Supreme Court already said are citizens. Remarkable stuff: reading the assignment.
Reuters reports the State Department has drafted guidance that could make parents prove citizenship or immigration status when seeking a child’s passport. Because apparently applying for a kid’s passport needed more federal paperwork and less common sense.
Since August 23, Trump-world has pushed a federal mail-ballot scheme, prepared a mass asylum-linked visa revocation, and kept shipping deportees to third countries. Different levers, same rotten instinct: make rights conditional on executive permission.
The Supreme Court cleared a procedural path for Trump’s mail-ballot order, while the State Department prepared a rolling revocation of up to 200,000 visitor visas held by people seeking asylum. Democracy: now with extra paperwork and less dignity.
