One Of Trump and Miller’s ICE Thugs Just Executed a 37 Year-Old Woman, a Legal Observer, in Minneapolis
We will begin with the shooting of a 37 year-old white woman not involved with the protest in Minneapolis today, killed by an ICE agent after one ICE agent tried to rip her door open, the shooter got in front of the vehicle and then shouted, ‘Stop!’ before firing three times within a second of saying, ‘Stop, shooting into the car as it went past him. The spokeswoman for DHS claims the victim had weaponized her car and was attempting to run down the ICE agent which bystanders and local officials dispute and videos make clear didn’t happen. Joining us from Minneapolis to describe what happened and examine the claims by DHS which the Minneapolis Mayor calls “bullshit” is, Ana Pottratz Acosta, a Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and a Clinical Professor of Law at The University of Minnesota focusing on health law, immigration law and human rights law. She previously practiced as an immigration attorney for the Lutheran Social Services of New York Immigration Legal Services Program and at Stinson Leonard Street as an attorney in the immigration law group where she represented clients in employment-based immigration matters and supervised non-immigration attorneys on pro bono immigration matters.
No Tyrant in History Had the Power to Destroy Like Trump Has at His Fingertip
Then we speak with Dr. Allen Frances, a Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University. He is the author of the award-winning international bestseller Saving Normal and the reference work Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis and his latest book is Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump, now out in an updated paperback version. He joins us to discuss how no tyrant in history whether it be Caesar, Napoleon or Hitler, had the power to destroy like Trump has at his fingertip.
A Former Special Counsel to the DOD’s General Counsel on Trump’s Great Unravelling of International Law
Then finally we speak with Oona Hathaway, a Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State since 2005, and, from 2014 to 2015, she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. She the coauthor with Scott Shapiro of The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World and she has a recent article at Foreign Affairs, “Might Unmakes Right: The Catastrophic Collapse of Norms Against the Use of Force” as well as an article we discuss at The New York Times, “The Great Unravelling Has Begun.”