Hey Anna, I've got a new secret weapon for print.

Print? Vista print, right? That's not a secret.

Print everything for your business with Vistaprint.

Business cards, stickers, t-shirt, signage, even photobugs from your last holiday.

If you need it, we print presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Donald Trump's abuses of power or escalating on multiple fronts.

First, Alina Haba, the very Trumpy new U.S. attorney from New Jersey, is now investigating

the New Jersey governor for supposedly getting in the way of deportation

efforts. Second, a number of major law firms have now surrendered to Trump's threats and bullying,

making deals with him that seem like payments of tribute to a local warlord, not something you'd

expect in an advanced liberal democracy. So is the big story here that our institutions are now clearly cracking in the face of flood the zone abuses of power?

Or is there a way through it all?

Today we're trying to figure all this out with law professor Leah Littman,

who has a new book coming out called Lawless about the Supreme Court's dissent into darkness.

Thanks for coming back on, Leah.

Thanks for having me.

Let's start with Alina Haba, who was previously the president's personal lawyer, now a U.S. attorney in Jersey.

She just announced that she's directed an investigation of the state's governor Phil Murphy

and the state's attorney general Matt Plattkin, both Democrats. This looks like it's a response

to New Jersey's policy limiting the type of assistance that state law enforcement can give

to federal immigration authorities. Leah, what's your reaction to all this? So I'm going to first start by looking at this

like a law professor. And there is this background rule of constitutional law that the federal

...