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Austin Sarat

Every American should read this judge’s stirring rebuke against Trump

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Students stage a walkout at Columbia University in New York City on 11 March. Photograph: Dana Edwards/Reuters

Democracy requires that we do more than look out for our own interests and defend our own rights. Ever since the birth of this nation, its citizens and leaders have echoed Benjamin Franklin’s admonition that “we must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

In Donald Trump’s America, hanging separately seems to be the order of the day. This seems especially true when it comes to his treatment of this country’s millions of non-citizen residents.

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