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The veteran courts reporter Ruth Marcus joins the host Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Trump Administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, why flights of Venezuelan deportees were sent to El Salvador, and how the defiance of federal court orders has set off a constitutional crisis. 

This week’s reading:

• “The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts,” by Ruth Marcus
• “The Case of Mahmoud Khalil,” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
• “The Long Nap of the Lazy Bureaucrat,” by Charlie Tyson
• “Hundreds of Thousands Will Die,” by David Remnick
• “The Felling of the U.S. Forest Service,” by Peter Slevin

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