Today (January 18), the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a major religious and ethnic profiling case. The central legal question in Ziglar is whether high-ranking officials in the Bush administration can be held responsible for profiling, rounding up and detaining Muslim, Arab and South Asian men in the wake of the September 11 attacks. But the Supreme Court’s decision could also have broad influence on the exercise and accountability of executive power in the incoming Trump administration. ...

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