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By using another interim appointment to fill a vacancy for the top prosecutor in Washington, the White House is bypassing Senate confirmation and potentially claiming expansive authority.
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Senate Republicans had signaled that they would reject Mhim over concerns about his fitness to hold such an important prosecutorial post.
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We go to Wisconsin as the state's Democratic Governor Tony Evers pushes back after Trump border czar Tom Homan says Wisconsin officials could be arrested over local policies that defy Trump's mass deportation agenda. This comes after FBI agents arrested Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan. "I think what we're seeing, in a broader sense, is just an absolute degradation of the rule of law," says Lisa Graves, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice, now the director of the policy research group True North Research and co-host of the podcast Legal AF. Her forthcoming book is Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
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