




Two hundred and thirty-eight men were put on three aircraft on Saturday under a law written in 1798 for wartime, and a district judge ordered the aircraft turned around while they were in the air. They were not turned around. On Tuesday morning the reply is not a legal filing but a tally of election results — he wasn't elected president, he didn't win the popular vote, he didn't win all seven swing states, he didn't win two thousand seven hundred and fifty counties to five hundred and twenty-five — and it ends by calling for impeachment. Within hours the Chief Justice, who almost never says anything, says something: impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement with a judicial decision. It is the first time in the term that a branch of government answers back in its own voice, and it changes nothing at all. By Thursday the judge is a grandstander, by Friday nationwide injunctions could destroy the country, and the deportation flights keep leaving.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 510. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
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