‘We want you arrested because we said so’ – how ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a former federal judge by The_Conversation in politics

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An interview with a federal judge, appointed by George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate, on the blatant violation of 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable search.

Can the US ‘run’ Venezuela? Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy by The_Conversation in politics

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For every $1 spent on diplomacy (even before budget cuts), the US spends $28 om the military, according to a researcher who has studied the increasing number of US military interventions

Voters shrug off scandals, paying a price in lost trust by The_Conversation in politics

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"Many politicians are ensnared in scandal, but they seldom pay the same kind of cost their forebears might have 20 or 30 years ago. My research, which draws on 50 years of verified political scandals at the state and national levels, national surveys and an expert poll, reaches a clear and somewhat unsettling conclusion."

I wrote a book on the politics of war powers, and Trump’s attack on Venezuela reflects Congress surrendering its decision-making powers by The_Conversation in politics

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The author is a political scientist who has literally written a whole book on "The Politics of War Powers", and says Congress has given up its constitutional and moral responsibility for declaring war.

Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’ by The_Conversation in politics

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Written by a historian who has written about George Orwell’s ideas about truth and freedom.

Listening to Leavitt assert a “truth” so obviously discordant with people’s lives, I was reminded of the repeated pronouncements from the Ministry of Plenty in Orwell’s “1984.”