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February 3, 2017 08:01 am PST
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America's institutions can preserve liberty, but they're also pretty good at destroying it
As trumpism metastasizes, I've taken some comfort in the American system of checks and balances, especially the independent judiciary and the strong Constitutional tradition, which lets impact litigators like EFF and ACLU leverage the courts to overturn the executive branch; I've seen this work many times with EFF and other civil liberties organizations. (more…)
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