Jurisprudence Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Orlando Estrada/AFP via Getty Images and Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. After the Trump administration rounded up hundreds of Venezuelan migrants around the country—without notice or court

The closer we get to the U.S. Department of Education being thrown atop the trash heap of history, the closer teachers' union mouthpiece Randi Weingarten gets to, as the Brits might say, losing her nut once and for all. If she ever had one, of course. Weingarten is in serious free fall with the pending

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