Erudite Partner's latest article for TomDispatch is online today.
Going Backwards on Rights with Trump
Or Just Around in Circles?Warning: dangers in the mirror are often closer than they may appear. In other words, the next few paragraphs may seem to be hyperbole but are, in fact, expressions of reality (animated by a cold fury).
On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court did its best to murder what’s left of civil rights in this country. As Charlie Savage of the New York Times reported, in an unsigned 6-3 ruling, it overturned a lower court’s order forbidding ICE and the Border Patrol in Los Angeles from stopping, interrogating, and detaining people based on any of four factors: “apparent race or ethnicity; the fact that they speak English with an accent or speak Spanish; their presence at particular locations like farms or pickup sites for day laborers; and the type of work they do.”
Those six conservative justices might as well have stood in front of the court and set fire to the 1964 Civil Rights Act ...
Martin Luther King looks on as President Lyndon Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
At one point in her youth, the E.P. thought about becoming a lawyer. She decided she had better things to do with her life, but she did, much later, become a genuine expert on the development of the international law which outlaws torture. And she knows whereof she speaks when she eviscerates the lawlessness of the Trump regime.
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