Excerpt: “I‘ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” Young, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, said during oral arguments Monday, The Boston Globe reports. “Is it true of our society as a whole? Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?”

Excerpt: But on that morning in March, Guardado got a strange phone call at work. Some sort of public safety officer had dialed her office and wanted her to come outside to talk. In the parking lot, three men in plain clothes identified themselves as Department of Public Safety officers, Correa told The War Horse. As Shirly approached, they said her car had been involved in an accident. But when she got close, they grabbed her and handcuffed her, telling her they were ICE agents.

Oh man, if there was any possibility of getting a passport or affording the flight, I would totally vacation in Mallorca and hope to get super-soaked.

Go away, smart people! America doesn’t want your pointy-headed smartiness!

Excerpt: Starkly, Shore invoked the ultimate warning from history. “The lesson of 1933 is: you get out sooner rather than later.” She seemed to be saying that what had happened then, in Germany, could happen now, in Donald Trump’s America – and that anyone tempted to accuse her of hyperbole or alarmism was making a mistake. “My colleagues and friends, they were walking around and saying, ‘We have checks and balances. So let’s inhale, checks and balances, exhale, checks and balances.’ I thought, my God, we’re like people on the Titanic saying, ‘Our ship can’t sink. We’ve got the best ship. We’ve got the strongest ship. We’ve got the biggest ship.’ And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”