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So on Thursday, we'll be at the two-month mark of the Trump administration.

There are, of course, all these chainsaw cuts, as Elon Musk himself describes them, to the U.S.

government.

There are also machine gun intensity changes in policy domestically and

internationally. And then there are the democracy versus autocracy and rule of law

versus authoritarianism questions that underlie how much of this is being done with implications,

let's face it, that go beyond any specific policy, no matter how consequential,

those particular policy changes themselves are in the moment. In the headlines right now

is the apparent thumbing their noses at the judicial branch of government around the judicial

order not to fly suspected Venezuelan gang members en masse

to El Salvador this weekend under the so-called Alien Enemies Act that's supposed to be only

invoked during wars.

The president of El Salvador, a Trump ally, posted the words, oopsie, too late about the

deportees being in the air after the judge ordered them not

to be flown. And Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, said this on CNN, directly

challenging the court's authority.

The district court has no ability to in any way restrain the president's authorities under the

Alien Enemies Act or the ability to conduct the foreign affairs of the United States.

Stephen Miller there, and you have this from Borderzar Tom Holman on Fox.

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