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Taken on their own terms, then, her warnings are not part of a project to destroy the legitimacy of the court so much as an effort to say from inside the building what so many of us can see: that we are, all of us, right now living in two worlds at the same time—lawful and lawless—and that the “law-free zone” is all around us, it is expanding, and it is capable of overtaking each and every one of us, whether we choose to see it or not.

“Masked immigration agents conducting unannounced enforcement actions through the community and, in all too many instances, stopping residents without so much as a reasonable suspicion of unlawful conduct have left people afraid to leave their homes ...,” the states argued.

To the jury, Diddy’s entourage didn’t seem like a criminal enterprise effecting state commerce, so much as a group of enablers whose job was to get him drugs, supply him with endless amounts of baby oil, and clean up his messes.

Bonner said he was “still surprised” that he had been “dismissed without so much as a phone call from Supervisor Barger.”

But “the plaintiffs never so much as mentioned it,” he lamented.