Trump Administration Files Supreme Court Brief on Birthright Citizenship, Arguments Set for April 1

Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in Democracy in America nearly two centuries ago, described a peculiar danger that would eventually threaten the American experiment — not the tyranny of the sword or the chains of a despot, but something far more insidious: a soft, administrative despotism that would “cover the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate.

The initiative will create a “mission control command center” based at the FBI, where agents from IRS Criminal Investigations will work on one-year assignments.

Senior officials from the Department of Justice appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed-door briefing as part of the committee’s intensifying investigation into the federal government’s prior handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.