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b"President Donald Trump is back from his 9-day overseas trip, where he seems to have ticked off a number of long-time close U.S. allies on several measures, including his failure to commit to the landmark UN Paris Climate agreement. He also managed to repeatedly lie about NATO members' commitments to the alliance in the bargain. We've got some much-needed fact checking on that. In the meantime, over the past week, there have been a number of landmark court rulings, both at the Appellate Court level (regarding Trump's second attempt at an Executive Order banning travel from six Muslim-majority nations and indefinitely barring refugees from war-torn Syria) and at the U.S. Supreme Court in two separate election-related cases (one on campaign finance and one on partisan and racial gerrymandering that could have far-reaching consequences). Both cases also revealing interesting -- and somewhat surprising -- positions from Justice Clarence Thomas and the stolen Supreme Court's newest Justice Neal Gorsuch. Mark Joseph Stern from Slate.com joins us to unpack all of those encouraging cases, explain why each is important, and what happens moving forward in all of them. He also offers a much-needed reminder of how the Trump Administration is still working to deport thousands of undocumented immigrants -- on the thinnest of grounds, such as a traffic ticket -- despite many of them having lived in the U.S. since childhood, or otherwise lived here for years and have U.S.-born children and family here. Those disturbing deportations continue, even as so many in the media (including us!) get too easily distracted by, as Stern notes, 'Trump's latest tweets'..."