Every American should read this judge’s stirring rebuke to Trump | Austin Sarat

The court's opinion in a case on immigrants' right to free speech is a powerful lesson in civics

Democracy requires that we do more than look out for our own interests and defend our own rights. Ever since the birth of this nation, its citizens and leaders have echoed Benjamin Franklin's admonition that we must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

In Donald Trump's America, hanging separately seems to be the order of the day. This seems especially true when it comes to his treatment of this country's millions of non-citizen residents.