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Opinion | Don’t Roll Your Eyes at Due Process It doesn’t just protect a person’s liberty and dignity. It’s a humble acknowledgment of our own limitations.

The Trump administration is urging Americans to give in to their basest desires. It scorns the moral arguments that built the Constitution. If its assault on the American system is allowed to continue, that system will be destroyed — and once destroyed, it will not be easy to rebuild.

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Opinion | What Rusting Russian Tanks Can Teach Us About the Pete Hegseth Group Chat A politicized military is an ineffective military.

There's a difference between a political and a professional military. America's military is professional. Russia's is political. But by imposing one standard for MAGA and another for everyone else, Hegseth and Trump are making America's military more like Russia's. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

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Hegseth Fires Military’s Top JAG Lawyers in Pursuit of ‘Warrior Ethos’ The defense secretary has repeatedly derided the military lawyers for war crime prosecutions and battlefield rules of engagement.

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.”
By NYT Greg Jaffe
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