"The point of what is happening right now is to garner more political power by demonising a particular group that is not well-defined and can be arbitrarily named by an executive."

#ScholarsCircle | #AlienEnemiesAct invoked to deport people from US without due process on civil charges

w/ Jennifer Selin, Victor Narro, Andrea Pitzer

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Scholars' Circle - Alien Enemy's Act invoked to deport people from US without due process on civil charges - April 6, 2025

Trump Administration's immigration policy invokes Alien Enemy's Act to remove longtime residents in US without justification. This is a 1798 law that allows the government to remove nationals of countries When the US is at war with their country without due process. And it was signed in order to cou

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Scholars' Circle - Book author interviews: The fight for black literacy, women intellectuals of the civil rights movement - February 23, 2025

We honor Black History Month. The South outlawed black literacy all the way until the Civil War. What was this war on black literacy and how did educators resist this law? [ dur: 32mins. ] Derek Black is professor of law in the Ernest F. Hollings chair in constitutional law at the University of

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