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After another week of breathtaking events and landmark decisions inside and outside our nation’s courts right prompts the question: “What are we to make of these seemingly related news stories that also change who we are and what we will be in America?” Among the blizzard of topics for analysis—stunning decisions by a single federal appeals court invalidating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; the belated ruling of another federal circuit tribunal directing the release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the House Ways & Means Committee; the start of the criminal trial against the Trump Corporation for tax and related fraud in a Manhattan courtroom; the sentencing by a federal trial judge in Washington, D.C. of one of the most brutally vicious rioters-insurrectionists of January 6; the conviction in a federal court in Michigan of more anti-government conspirators involved in a foiled plot to kidnap and murder that state’s incumbent governor; and the ruling by a South Carolina state court directing that Mark Meadows, the former White House Chief of Staff, appear for testimony before a Georgia grand jury investigating the attempt to undermine voting and change the actual results of the 2020 presidential polling there. And near the end of the first month of public arguments before the United States Supreme Court in its 2022-2023 term, an analysis of three more (among ten, previously-highlighted) important cases pending before it (likely to be decided in June)—focusing on the immigration enforcement authority of the Homeland Security Secretary to prioritize investigations and deportations of the most public safety-threatening illegal aliens, another challenging the right of nursing home patients to sue for civil rights violations in their health care treatment, and a third re-igniting the clash between religious and speech liberties under the First Amendment and the rights of LGBTQ community members to engage in commercial service contracts.
