Updates | The Week of March 20, 2017
Helen Klein Murillo // 3/26/17 //
“In the face of opportunities to increase his power, destroy the opposition, and build his new political order, President Trump will once again gaze upon the darkening skies and see only sunshine,” as Mark Danner explains in the New York Review of Books.
Chief Justice John Roberts should speak out against President Trump’s attacks on the judiciary, argue Johanna Kalb and Alicia Bannon of the Brennan Center for Justice (TIME).
President Trump’s “adversarial relationship with the truth” is causing major difficulties for senior Executive Branch officials, which Jack Goldsmith analyzes at Lawfare.
President Trump declared that “I’ll criticize judges” after Judge Gorsuch denounced some of his attacks on judges.
False and misleading statements by Trump administration officials may have criminal implications, as Helen Murillo (a Take Care intern) explains at Lawfare.