Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.America needs to pump the brakes on expanding domestic security activities.Federal officers prepare to disperse the crowd of protestors outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 17, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Federal law enforcement agencies attempt to intervene as protests continue in Portland. (Photo by Mason Trinca/Getty Images)The rule of law matters most in times of crisis.Today, America is in crisis along multiple fronts and instead, we may be sliding into unauthorized and unaccountable federal policing and domestic security...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.America needs to pump the brakes on expanding domestic security activities.Federal officers prepare to disperse the crowd of protestors outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 17, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Federal law enforcement agencies attempt to intervene as protests continue in Portland. (Photo by Mason Trinca/Getty Images)The rule of law matters most in times of crisis.Today, America is in crisis along multiple fronts and instead, we may be sliding into unauthorized and unaccountable federal policing and domestic security...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump is whether to issue preemptive pardons for his adult children, his advocate Rudolph W. Giuliani and possibly others before he leaves office on Jan. 20. He has already recently pardoned his former national security adviser, , and commuted the sentence of his longtime political guru, . So the prospect of more pardons in the next couple of months seems more likely than not.But ultimately, there’s nothing anyone can do to stop — or even effectively challenge — Trump’s lame-duck pardons of his cronies. They...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump is whether to issue preemptive pardons for his adult children, his advocate Rudolph W. Giuliani and possibly others before he leaves office on Jan. 20. He has already recently pardoned his former national security adviser, , and commuted the sentence of his longtime political guru, . So the prospect of more pardons in the next couple of months seems more likely than not.But ultimately, there’s nothing anyone can do to stop — or even effectively challenge — Trump’s lame-duck pardons of his cronies. They...WW…