Reflections on Privilege and Community Resilience

OA1166 - We consider the legal realities behind this week's most important stories, from the unprecedented statutory justification for Trump sending troops into California to why a wrongfully-deported man’s return to the US is--bad, actually? Matt then serves up a digestif of a note en bas de page about one of the most audacious counterfeiters in French history and how they were brought down with one well-placed tongue.

• Trump executive order deploying National Guard to California (6/7/25)

• 10 U.S.C 12406

• Newsom v. Trump (complaint filed 6/7/2025)

• Indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (5/21/25)

• Filing in Maryland Abrego Garcia litigation seeking sanctions against the government

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