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Battle for the Constitution: Week of July 27th, 2020 Roundup

July 31, 2020 | by NCC Staff

Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

There Is Nothing Conservative About What Trump Is Doing in Portland

By Paul Rosenzweig, Resident Senior Fellow, R Street Institute and Arthur Rizer, Director of Criminal Justice & Civil Liberties, R Street Institute

Paul Rosenzweig and Arthur Rizer write that Donald Trump’s deployment of militarized, federal law enforcement officers to various cities to crack down on protests and crime is a perversion of conservative principles, violates the Constitution, and breaks with important norms—and they offer several ideas to fix the situation.

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